In a recent NPR article titled “What Does a Good Common Core Lesson Look Like?” Anya Kamenetz takes the reader through a “good” lesson as explained by Kate Gershon, a research fellow at EngageNY, which…
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A “Good” Common Core Lesson? by Diana Senechal
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What Should Teacher Education Be? by Diana Senechal
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Eight Qualities of a Great Teacher Mentor By Kimberly Long
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Eight Qualities of a Great Teacher Mentor
By Kimberly Long
Papers are spilling off the desk. The voicemail light is blinking. Your email inbox is never ending, and little smiley face stickers are somehow stuck in your hair.
We’ve all been there. When it comes to teaching, there are always those days when the final bell rings and you just want to vent about the day,…
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Research Says / Which Strategy Works Best? by Bryan Goodwin
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4 Ways to Tap Into Teens and Technology Leadership by Matt Levinson
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On-the-Spot Scaffolding for Students by REBECCA ALBER
On-the-Spot Scaffolding for Students
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Motivating Students With Effective Feedback and Clarity by B.R.Jones
Motivating Students With Effective Feedback and Clarity
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Serve your detention or lose your textbooks by Scott McLeod
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Meetings add energy to the school community or they deplete it. by Dennis Sparks
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Are “Just Right” Books Too Easy?
Are “Just Right” Books Too Easy?
In this article in Reading Today, Timothy Shanahan (University of Illinois/Chicago) examines the long-standing belief that children learn best when they’re taught at their current instructional reading level, using materials that are not too hard, not too easy – “just right.” This seems like common sense, as anyone who has watched a frustrated student struggling with a frustration-level book can…
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Should Books in School Libraries Be Organized by Reading Level?
Should Books in School Libraries Be Organized by Reading Level?
In this article in Knowledge Quest, Georgia librarian Susan Grigsby makes the case for not leveling books in school libraries – for example with Lexile numbers, AR levels, or colored dots. “I believe strongly in teaching independence in book selection,” she says, and creates personal bibliographies for her middle-school students by having them fill out surveys of their interests –…
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Close Reading Without Tears
Close Reading with Sets of Related Picture Books
(Originally titled “Close Reading Without Tears”)
In this Educational Leadership article, Nancy Boyles (Southern Connecticut State University) says she is a big fan of close reading because it has the potential to teach students “to delve into a text and uncover one layer of meaning after another, to appreciate as much as possible a book’s multiple themes, diverse points of view, rich…
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Student Voice: Do We Really Listen to Students? By Peter DeWitt
Student Voice: Do We Really Listen to Students?
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A Tale of Two Libraries from A Principal's Reflections by Eric Sheninger
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Leveled reading: The making of a literacy myth by Robert Pondiscio and Kevin Mahnken
Leveled reading: The making of a literacy myth
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Common Core calls for kids to read books that ‘frustrate’ them. Is that a good idea? by Valerie Strauss
Common Core calls for kids to read books that ‘frustrate’ them. Is that a good idea?…
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Connect to the Common Core with Resources Students Commonly Turn to For Learning
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Technology Improves And The Internet Expands But School Acceptable Use Policies Still Lock Students Out Of The Benefits
Technology Improves And The Internet Expands But School Acceptable Use Policies Still Lock Students Out Of The Benefits
from the an-internet-with-18-years-worth-of-training-wheels dept
Tech Dirt
Tim Cushing
Few entities approach new advances in technology with more foreboding than school administrations. What could be used as portals to a nearly-infinite supply of information via the internet is often…
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Purpose is the Key by Annie Murphy Paul
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Four Common Core ‘flimflams’ by Carol Burris
Four Common Core ‘flimflams’…
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