…for so many people I talk to, those life-changers were English or language arts teachers. I believe this is because, as language builders, these teachers are so intimately connected to…
…building to welcome students and teachers back. There may always be huge gaps between what the public understands about education and what we know on the front lines, but within…
…kids will be the ones to run this country. In one year, two years, four years, they’re going to be voters. If we start building empathy in them, maybe some…
…classroom teachers, and we invite teachers to build connections with those same scholars. (Why not invite them to a department meeting to discuss possibilities?) The surge in books related to…
…Tiger, by Catherine Rayner (Tiger Tales Books) Animal Shapes, by Christopher Silas Neal (Little Bee Books) Grades K–2 Billions of Bricks: A Counting Book about Building, by Kurt Cyrus (Henry…
…about their personalities and interests, which in turn makes it easier for teachers to build connections with these students and to succeed in teaching them: Book choices tell us a…
…own paper and ink. Teachers are helping to build the future through our children, and they are doing it in part with their own paychecks. Progress in our field depends…
…conferring that is so vital to building a community of writers proved to be a greater challenge. Last year, Maria had already begun to experiment with digital writing conferences and…
…The Council Chronicle article, “A Conversation with the Book Whisperer,” where she tells how she helps her students fall in love with books, about building a culture of reading and…
…would hearing stories about the lives of people from these groups help all people understand them better?” The students quickly reached agreement that stories build empathy and that empathy changes…
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