…their faith, home culture, and languages. This anguish builds when children see no normalized validation of themselves or their families and heritage in school curriculum and materials and as they…
…them up, rung by rung, into literacy…And the second thing fiction does is to build empathy…You get to feel things, visit places and worlds you would never otherwise know. You…
…to the most basic building block of education: literacy. Literacy is fundamental to participation in public and private life and is the core component in the American tradition of education….
…I missed pretty much the whole thing It was about a poet being a paper poet Building a paper house It went up in smoke I don’t think that was…
…Quito. Our students will work with young students, teaching them basic robotics, bringing books for their library, and building an outdoor learning center. When they return to Newburgh, they will…
…become participants in bilingual communities, they partake in a form of community membership, demonstrating a kind of role modeling that will both engage emergent bilingual youth and build confianza in…
…tears building up behind my eyes. Worst of all, I had lost the class on day one. Now, fourteen years later, I find myself out of the classroom, and into…
…in nature, without being inside playing on our phones all day. Travel builds empathy and challenges a single story that a young person might have in his or her mind…
…about their learning along the way. Here’s an overview of the two-to-three week process: As a culture builder, a lesson in active listening, and a brainstorming activity, we began with…
…or hard moment you open the door to new connections and help to build a real picture of what it means to be a literacy teacher today. Stories shared in…
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