…their schools. Building Powerful Learning Environments expands this understanding to embrace families, communities, other learning institutions, and businesses not as helpers, but as co-builders of a powerful learning environment. Culturize:…
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…Enjoy daily conversations to build vocabulary. One way to help early readers begin to make sense of what they’re reading is to help them build their vocabulary. In this Tip,…
…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…
…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…
…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,…
…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…
…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,…
…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…
…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…
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