Using Film as a Tool in the Classroom
…article “How Movies Work for Secondary School Students with Special Needs” demonstrates how to use scenes from films to help special education students improve their visual and auditory skills, build…
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Grading Practices That Grow Writers
…at Mott Community College, Flint, Michigan. Arina is the author of Building Powerful Learning Environments: From Schools to Communities (2017) and dozens of educational publications. Follow her on Twitter @arinabokas….
Appreciating Teachers in Underprivileged Schools
…of students with behavioral inconsistencies, learning deficiencies, and students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Yet, these teachers keep on teaching and making magic in the classroom by raising test scores, building…
Of Choice and Challenge and Superheroes
…school. For all the ways your students treated me as the star, I hope they never forget that the real superheroes in this have been in their building all along.”…
Teaching News Bias without Being Biased
…the text in any response. The power of this activity, and in building a critically literate society, comes from the conversations. Our students are the future. They are learning each…
Summer Learning
…enjoy the same kind of community-building experience by meeting with friends to choose, read, and discuss books together. Their meetings can come to life with discussions, arts and crafts, and…
READ the Map!
…all the books I sent him; he shared map resources from National Geographic and took all the participants, including me, on some incredibly deep map-reading exercises. Building on the work…
The Summer Reading Collage: A New Approach to Relevancy
…literally and figuratively, and this story inspires us to think critically about these internal and external worlds. The discourse that permeated our classroom catalyzed close reading and community building, explicitly…
For the Love of Learning
…courses began as a way “to try to close the wide achievement gap between the district’s Hispanic and white students.” They worked on building the students’ self-esteem and note that…
Celebrate Mandela Day
…projects around the key themes of awareness building, food security, literacy and education, service and volunteerism, and shelter and infrastructure. Finally, invite students, as a class or in small groups,…
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