How Blank Walls Built Community in 7th Grade
…so I was familiar with this pod. It hadn’t been updated in many years, so late last summer I took this opportunity to create a blank slate, which I planned…
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Writing Instruction Remix
…blanks in a generic outline. And I often don’t write full completed drafts, revise them, formally peer-review them, and rewrite them. I usually have an idea, I root it in…
Build Your Stack: Fostering Self-Acceptance
…are three new picture books with strong characters that can help students grow academically, socially, and emotionally: Always Anjali by Sheetal Sheth; illustrated by Jessica Blank Always Anjali is…
Poetry to Promote Positive Self-Talk
…poems centered on their own positive attributes. My second-graders used blank books with paper templates glued in to publish their words and pictures, but this project could be easily adapted…
In Praise of NCTE’s Member Gatherings
…Words and sentences were stunted by lack of inspiration and creativity. I needed empowering words to take center stage on the blank white page. Experiencing these public movements and private…
“They Yearned to Tell Their Stories”
…on blank white paper. Often, the children rebelled by jumping, dancing, or shouting. But they were quickly punished and forced back into quiet stillness. The evil spell was so powerful…
Asking the Right Questions in Teacher Assessment
…in blanks of a formulaic paragraph structure or copying notes from the board into a graphic organizer. Neither of these tasks involves a robust opportunity to develop literacy because students…
Advocating for the Students’ Right to View Films
In the early 1990s, film ratings made the news in San Ramon, California, when the Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Richard Patsey “held that adoption of a blanket…
Metaphor as a Game of Chance
…folded and taped together into a 12-sided dodecahedron. It was a great improvement, and it allowed me to leave some blanks for the students to fill in on their own,…
Part 1: Revelation and Student Voice in my High School Classroom
…book, I included a blank calendar. We spent the class dividing the book up into sections with the understanding that we needed to be finished when Mr. Jackson visited the…
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