We call our replacement for guided reading Wide Awake Reading because we focus on teaching kids that reading means being fully engaged with each other. We approach… Read more “Student-Led Discourse Made Easy”
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Welcome to the Rebellion!
I am writing this as an introduction as we begin our quest around student-driven, high expectation instruction that does not approach student’s needs from a deficit perspective.… Read more “Welcome to the Rebellion!”
Our vision as teachers
If you tell your students what to say and how to say it, you may never hear them, only the pale echoes of what they imagine you… Read more “Our vision as teachers”
Intercomprehending: Dismantling the Deficit Approach in ESL
When I first proposed an ELA course where students could move at their own pace while reading texts they chose, and work in heterogeneous groups organized by… Read more “Intercomprehending: Dismantling the Deficit Approach in ESL”
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