Selecting Texts for Your Students and Your Course
Perhaps during these hot and sticky summer days, you’re working on Build[ing] Your Stack™ of texts that you want to share with your students. If so, I’m sure you’re thinking…
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Do You READ Enough?
This post is written by member Susan Wagner. I remember books, those stacks of printed paper held in place with a decorative cover. I remember hearing the crack of the…
How to Build an Engaging Classroom Library
…reading lives. If you’re required to teach classics, you could also draw upon parallel texts and authors to build deeper readings. Some questions that you can ask in text encounters…
What It Was Like: Building Empathy with Historical Fiction
…kind act. This adjustment of assumptions, and the attendant discomfort of changing one’s mind, is the very mechanism of building empathy. In considering the woman’s action kind and not cruel…
Building Student Relationships Online
…reconvene in digital ones. Overnight, teachers across the globe lost access to some of our most powerful relationship-building tools: classroom design, school events, casual conversation in between classes, and the…
Advocacy as Capacity Building: Creating a Movement through Collaborative Inquiry
…Minneapolis. Read the full Address in Research in the Teaching of English (Feb 2016). . . . Advocacy builds from our knowledge and experiences to meet the needs that we…
Building Writers’ Confidence through Letter Writing in Fourth Grade
…us to be “pen pals” with her. This weekly exercise helped me build a connection with her and made me comfortable writing in an academic setting. I want my students…
August 2018 #NCTEchat: Heading Back to School
…a fantastic way to support a culture of reading in the classroom. What books are you most excited to share with students? #BuildYourStack #NCTEchat We hope to see you…
The Process of Rebuilding Begins in Our Imagination
…Antiblackness in Speculative Fiction.” Her book Ship of Souls is featured in the Build Your Stack post “Ensuring Black Girls Access to Science Fiction.” Elliott has also been a presenter…
Activating Learning: Teaching for Metacognition
…were, and what they might bring to this new writing event. As an instructor, incorporate your own reflections into the class, modeling reflective practice and building trust: share stories of…
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