Connecting with Students’ Prior Knowledge
…the text in which it’s presented, they have no hope of understanding its deeper ideas. By exploring these concepts up front, in more concrete terms with a scaffolded activity, you’ll…
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Truth’s in Need of Truth Today: Public Education in Troubled Times
…literacy, and the effects of racial injustice on schools, our society, and our children. We know that homework has little effect on learning, retention has long-term negative effects, and that…
The Challenge: You Have No Other Choice But To Be a Writer
…paragraphs and sentence fragments; I push them to include quotations from friends and family. And in terms of preparation for state tests, I do just a bit more than the…
Fighting for Intellectual Freedom, Post-Election
…civic life doesn’t begin and end with the ballot box, and elections that happen in midterm years matter as much as ones that happen in presidential years. Knowing when your…
Teaching from the Eyes of a Teacher, Studenting from the Eyes of a Student: The New Book Writing Together Is Coming to Kansas City!
…describes in great detail how he approached and taught the course that term; Diana, an education major and English minor, describes her experience as a student—we draw from Mary Louise…
Why Study Groups?
…me during around mid-term, and via an anonymous survey at the end. The handwritten note was to see if the students wanted to switch groups; only two people expressed interest…
Reading Picture Books and Discussing Gender Binary Topics with Elementary Students
…friends were not married, although his son knew both were truly in love just like other married couples. Without using any explicit terms, these picture books effectively teach students concepts…
Artglish
…and very small student body left us with some particularly sticky logistical challenges. We knew the school couldn’t afford to have us co-teach the class—financially or in terms of personnel—and…
Unmasking the Mythical Narrative Surrounding the Five-Paragraph Essay
…for producing original, passionate, and high-quality writing. In the NCTE blog post “If Not the Five-Paragraph Essay, Then What,” David Slomp keenly explains that, “over the long term, teaching kids…
Say His Name!
…the promotion and protection of a secure democracy seems to me to remain a key idea if our democratic republic will continue to flourish. We have made advancements in terms…
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