Use professional journaling to reflect and celebrate your growth

Mary Beth Kester is a 5th grade teacher who wrote a fantastic article for our writers collective about using professional journaling to reflect and celebrate growth.

If you haven’t heard of a professional journal, or you haven’t used one, you aren’t alone. While I often have required my students to reflect and journal about the books they read, the math strategies they used, or the contributions they make to a group project, I never used to take the time to write my own reflections on my practice.