Margin Notes

As we near the end of 2025, we want to celebrate the work of literacy teachers and the steady, thoughtful ways you support readers and writers every day. The spaces you create for students to wonder, take risks, and find their voices help them grow in ways that last far beyond a semester.

As we head into the Winter break, we hope you find rest, quiet moments, and time with the people you love.

Here is a poem that has felt right for this time in the year.

Enough by David Whyte

Enough. These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.

This opening to life
we have refused
again and again
until now.

Until now.

Wishing you a peaceful holiday and a bright start to 2026,
Jill, Christie, and Melissa