Mentor Texts for Teaching Narrative Writing: Chapter Books
…. . . . Maus by Art Spiegelman A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his…
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Process and Professionalism
…I must allow a student to succeed on her or his terms. I can’t force learning. In an authoritarian reality, this student would receive some kind of retribution for not…
Professional and Personal Learning Networks
…Richard DuFour writes that: The idea of improving schools by developing professional learning communities is currently in vogue. People use this term to describe every imaginable combination of individuals with…
Writing “For Every One”
…on their identities and positionalities in terms of gender and race. As you might imagine, the majority of those authors were white and male. Flash forward to 2023, and…
Foregrounding Potential, Not Disorder, in Neurodiverse Students
…Labeled with debilitating terms like “disordered” and “disabled,” they are presumed to be frail and pitiful. This foregrounding of deficit detracts attention from their strengths and ignores their potential and…
A Book for the Ages
…a banned term when it was used in media discussions of the new constitutional amendment to end term limits for Chinese president Xi Jinping. in the USSR for being anti-communist,…
5 Easy Steps to Create a Successful Story This School Year
…story has a climax (a dangerous word in middle school, so be careful). This is the story’s highest point of action. In terms of classroom and school improvement, this would…
Build Your Stack: Curating a Menu of Mentors
…equity as follows: Sec. 2. Definitions. For purposes of this order: (a) The term “equity” means the consistent and systematic fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals, including individuals…
A World Where All People Are Safe And Valued
…31 years old “Social justice” is a term often used in our field, though what it refers to is, at times, amorphous. We in the Social Justice Commission, Genders and…
The American Icon Paper
…go out of style. While many of our students know an icon as an image that appears on their phone or laptop, a broader definition of the term is the…
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