2018 Book Recommendations: YA and Adult Fiction
…the creature’s hideousness. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father…
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Looking Back: Reflections of a First-Year Teacher
…and picking myself back up, building community, and most of all, obtaining that feeling you get when you learn that you really can empower your students. As I look to…
Entry Points: Moving Students toward Literacy
…nonexistent. Through building this rapport, I have been able to determine which students need my targeted and intentional support. Furthermore, this rapport has led me to determine what kind of…
Critical Literacy Is Needed Now More Than Ever
…that anchor question, we are able to stay focused on the root of the harm, and we build collective power as we build our metalinguistic muscles. Now, more than ever,…
Give Students the Power to Start and Sustain Rich Discussion
…discourse. Share appropriate ways to respond during discussion. Model the language used to agree, disagree, ask for clarification, and build on others’ ideas. I display a list of sentence-starters and…
Removing Shame and Embarrassment from Grammar Instruction
…treats grammar as a set of flexible tools for achieving specific effects in writing while providing multiple opportunities to build grammar knowledge. Grammar Study allows students to get curious, hypothesize,…
Time for Collaboration
…We’re advocating for such conditions in this year’s policy platform. “Provide teachers with the time and resources that are essential to creating collaborative, sustained opportunities for professional learning and building…
Students’ Right to Read Challenged Books
…to achieve this goal, three in particular: engage in and encourage independent reading, build classroom libraries to increase exposure and access, and facilitate choice in text selection. So far these…
“We Need to Talk about Power and Policy When Discussing Book Ban Efforts”
…into building coalitions for larger public school projects. An episode of the podcast Have You Heard details how student and community activists fighting school privatization movements linked the fight to…
Reflections on Relational Methodologies for the Prison Classroom
…be captured in 12-week course evaluations or recidivism statistics. Relational agency in the AIC program has taken many forms—some have been surprising—and almost all have required time for building trust…
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