While we have shared the Dropbox as a starting point for teachers new to mentor text work, it was never meant to be anyone’s entire mentor text diet. The dropbox, though beloved, was not an up-to-date resource. Let’s be honest: the mentor texts in the dropbox were old, and we hadn’t updated it in a VERY long time because, you know, life. While we have loved it fiercely, and while I know it will be disappointing news to many, we are saying goodbye to the Mentor Text Dropbox. It’s a Google Security Update that caused it (God bless Angela Stockman who figured that out!), and, in practical terms, it’s basically impossible to recover. For about eight years now, you’ve been looking at that Google folder that one of us shared with the other lo many moons ago.Īs many of you have noticed, the Mentor Text Dropbox was basically murdered a few weeks ago. And when, one day, we started talking about writing workshop and mentor texts, one of us (probably Allison) casually said, “Why don’t we share good mentor texts when we find them?” and the other (probably me) said, “What if we just drop them in a folder in Google Drive?”Īnd that was the Mentor Text Dropbox.

We taught literally next door to one another. On Tuesday, Allison got a call from the head of school telling her that he just couldn’t reconcile not hiring her too, so he created another English position and wanted her to take it.

On a Monday, I got a call from the head of school offering me the position. We had never met and were not remotely aware of one another’s existence even though we had shared a couple years at the same university. In 2012, Allison and I applied for the same job at a local high school.

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