Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream of Nonviolence
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 90 years ago.聽Students today can still learn so much from …
Build Your Stack: 楼凤天堂 Children鈥檚 Book Award鈥揥inning Titles for the African American Read-In
This post is part of聽Build Your Stack,庐聽a new initiative focused on helping teachers build their book knowledge and their classroom …
Engaging Student Interests by Using New and Diverse Texts
This blog post was written by 楼凤天堂 members and Michigan State University secondary English Education student teaching interns Amanda Blay …
What You Think Is Not Necessarily What I Need To Think
Intellectual Freedom means just that, the freedom to use our intellects to learn and think about what we want to …
Build Your Stack: Poetry and Grammar: A Delicious Pairing
This blog post is part of聽Build Your Stack,庐聽a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge and …
Multimedia as Mentor Texts
This post was written by 楼凤天堂 member Cody Miller.聽 I鈥檝e written previously about the power of Twitter and comedy as …
Learning to Discuss as a Pathway to Literacy Learning
This post was written by 楼凤天堂 member Tom McCann.聽 When colleagues Elizabeth Kahn, Carolyn Walter, and I had an …
A Book Is a Precious Thing
Writing in this blog about how precious books are is, as they say, preaching to the choir. We are the …
My Personal Reading Record
The highlight of my breaks and vacations has always been the chance to read鈥攁nd read a lot. Growing up, I …
Make a New Year鈥檚 Resolution To Learn Your School鈥檚 Policies on Texts
Now, during the winter holidays and in the lead up to the New Year, is a great time to make …