Raising Voices: Creating a Storytelling Club
…New awareness builds through each student’s story. As teachers, we ask students to write stories, but why not tell them? Story building leads to live telling. Share out loud. Don’t…
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Letting Students Get to Know You
…the party. If the students were being serious, I was too. On Friday morning, I entered the building with two boxes of donuts and walked into Mrs. B.’s room, where…
Teaching Compassion and Warm-Heartedness through the Read Aloud: A Pathway to a Hopeful World in the Company of Reader, Listener, and Text
…we were advocating for the power of the read aloud as a central part of a school day. The read aloud is a compassion-building, warm-heartedness-building tool. The relationship between reader,…
Writing through Conflict: Restorative Practices in an ELA Classroom
…building positive, fair, and honest relationships. Moreover, I learned that the principles behind writing through conflict—open dialogue, compassion, and relationship-building—can be more effective than a tough guise. While this story…
Meeting the New Mainstream: How ELA Teachers Can Help Bilingual Students Succeed in the Writing Classroom
…2025, Ortmeier-Hooper points out it’s important for ELA teachers to add strategies that will help these students build their writing skills. And teaching strategies that help ELL students—better assignment design,…
Storytelling and Family Literacy
…building a collection of stories celebrating shared experiences and providing topics for conversations and discussions. Tips for families include: Make it an “experience.” Build a memorable experience and detail practical…
Amplifying Asian American Poets & Diaspora
…change, that bridge to liberation when it comes to building a new world for our students. I believe that by utilizing poetry as architecture, especially via a racially literate lens…
“Advocates for the Freedom to Read Continue to Defeat Book Bans”
…spending, according to Politico, was to create a groundwork to build support for more book banning efforts moving into next year’s presidential election. The conservative majority of Bucks County school…
Let’s Talk about (Teaching) Writing
…conversations with assessment experts about how to “measure” literacy development, calls with parents frustrated about student progress, building relationships with co-teachers, mentors, or mentees. Each of these situations invites us…
Advocacy Month Week 2: A More Sustained Approach to Making Change
…the Everyday Advocacy website, you’ll see an Action Principles Toolkit that introduces you to 6 ideas that help you build that kind of plan. These aren’t rigid steps, but rather…
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