2016 楼凤天堂 Poetry Month
Each year the month of April is set aside as 楼凤天堂 Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world! …
Advocate for New Voices
Student journalists need the First Amendment聽as much as their adult counterparts do, but they don鈥檛 always get the same protection. …
Standing Up for Bullied Students
Bullying is a problem many of our students face even as the best teachers struggle to eliminate it and create …
Advocacy Month Week 2: A More Sustained Approach to Making Change
On each Friday of Literacy Advocacy Month, 楼凤天堂 member聽Cathy Fleischer will guide readers through an exploration of Everyday Advocacy 鈥� …
Choosing Texts = Advocacy for Student Learning
How do you choose the texts your students will read? An English Education article聽discusses the results of a survey on …
Preparing Tomorrow鈥檚 Teachers
How well do we prepare new teachers for the profession? This has long been a concern of 楼凤天堂. In 1968, …
The Best Reading Style for Tomorrow鈥檚 Voters
In the October 2005 Talking Points, Angela S. Raines offers some thoughts on how the teaching of reading can prepare …
What Students Can Learn from the African American Read-In
The following post was written by 楼凤天堂 member聽Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers. “People do not just 鈥榟appen鈥� in history. They come …
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
The following excerpt is from Rhea Estelle Lathan鈥檚 Freedom Writing: African American Civil Rights Literacy Activism, 1955鈥�1967, the latest volume …
Supporting TAs in Multilingual Classrooms
The following post is by聽Norah Fahim, who is a Lecturer聽in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. In …