Families and Literacy Learning
Whether your summertime was leisurely, productive, or both, you’re probably joining the many children, families, and teachers making the mental …
Grounding Our Teaching in Research
The following excerpts come from an article entitled Grounding Our Teaching in Research: Implications from Research in the Teaching of English, 2009–12 …
The Role of Early Childhood Education and Racism
“Through our teaching of young children …we can affect the most change.” How appropriate today with unrest (again) in Ferguson, …
“Fostering Culturally Relevant Literacy Instruction”
“Names are Powerful”. Jenna Fournel recently unpacked the article “Fostering Culturally Relevant Literacy Instruction: Lessons from a Native Hawaiian Classroom” …
“A Professional Approach to Education”
Amidst all the hand-wringing about what’s going wrong with current approaches to education reform we don’t hear enough about what …
3 Connected Reading Practices
This text is excerpted from Connected Reading: Teaching Adolescent Readers in a Digital World by Kristen Hawley Turner and Troy …
“Names are Powerful”
If you’re heading back to school this month, and particularly if you teach elementary school, check out the article Fostering Culturally Relevant …
Authentic Assessment: Where to Start
This text is excerpted from Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom by Joanna Dolgin, Kim Kelly, and Sarvenaz Zelkha, available …
“Adaptive Capacity” in Schools
We do not live in a static world, which is why it’s so important for schools to exist in a constant …
Teaching Is a Skill in an Art Form
As I recently watched three dancers, one from New York, one from Richmond, and one from Washington, DC, dance seamlessly …