The Censors Are Coming: What You Need to Know
…academic freedom – on the elementary, secondary, and even, collegiate level. Topics like – academic freedom, book banning, and a term, new to me – trigger warnings (warnings that a…
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Standardizing College Readiness
…the best approach to or meaning of college readiness, even as we develop new tools for trying to gauge it and to standardize the term. At best, it is a…
An Equitable English Education Begins with Dignity
…our experiences. Such a reframing was transformative in that it gave us permission to assert the full value of our existence and define ourselves on our own terms, achieving a…
Diminishing the Disconnect: Student Perspective on Relevant Writing Feedback
…process to understand not only what they need in terms of writing improvement, but also who they are as developing writers. Receiving a draft is often half the battle; many…
Moving Past Old-School Definitions of Literacy
…place or know the right people. Writing and creating is open access, and accessibility is a key term. Tools are now available—audio, video, transcription, chatbots—which create possibilities for students who…
Advocating for English Language Learners under ESSA
…and in years 3 and beyond, assessment scores for ELLs will be included the same way as all other students. In terms of classifying students, ESSA requires states to have…
Digital Storytelling and the Digital Divide
…was always followed by deficits or stereotypes of what they lacked or did not have. When the term “digital divide” was introduced in the 1990s (US Department of Commerce, National…
Uncomfortable Texts
…like a reasonable and easy one to make that didn’t require teacher input,” Michael Cary, the district’s director of curriculum and instruction, told the Duluth News Tribune. “But in terms…
Lights! Camera! Action! Using Film as a Tool in the Classroom
…on the role of film director in the ReadWriteThink.org lesson You Know the Movie Is Coming — Now What?. After exploring cinematic terms, students read a literary work with a…
Using Film as a Tool in the Classroom
…on the role of film director in the ReadWriteThink.org lesson You Know the Movie Is Coming — Now What?. After exploring cinematic terms, students read a literary work with a…
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