As a Reading teacher with a large library, I want to introduce students to my books, but I also want to start reading aloud to them.  Th...

Imagine having to plan your escape from your home.  You can't speak to anyone about it, but you know it will happen soon.  And it t...

Socratic Seminar is such a powerful tool to use with your students.  Once you teach them a few rules about how to engage with each other...

Have you ever done something that you thought would help someone?  Only the thing you did went all wrong?  Maybe, because you hadn't ...

If you could make yourself over - starting from scratch - what would you change about yourself? That's the underlying premise of...

Roseann Barr made the news a few weeks ago by comparing an African-American woman to a monkey.  That got me thinking about the kinds of th...

"Noooo!  Don't stop!"  Music to my ears.   I try to make time - about ten minutes - at the end of every clas...

"There is no military.  Because no one believes in war." "Our most important law is do not go out after 11:00 because bad t...

I wish I had taped it, this powerful discussion.  Impassioned students debating whether their person was more heroic than someone else...

I love project-based learning!  It's fun to see kids get jazzed up about a topic and collaborate well (or not) with other students.  M...

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Like many of you, I work with small groups of students in Reading, helping to get them to comprehend materials at grade level.  One of t...

Have you read Refugee?  This is one of my all-time favorite books and it captured my students in a way that great books do.  Watch this v...