Our vision for our curriculum has 5 key anchors—reflected in both pedagogy and practice —that we use to align our curriculum and instruction. Alignment allows us to… Read more “Our Core Pedagogical Principals and Goals”
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What Do Your Tasks Value More: Your Ideas or Your Students?
Whether reading, writing or even instructing students around key terminology, the Periodic Table of Elements, or the causes of World War I, we must always place in… Read more “What Do Your Tasks Value More: Your Ideas or Your Students?”
#TeacherInspo: Nancy Atwell
The red annotation is mine. When we teach lessons on reading, while we might model certain things readers do, we are clear that it’s about teaching them… Read more “#TeacherInspo: Nancy Atwell”
Student-Led Discourse Made Easy
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”
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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