Reader’s Workshop: The Early Years I’ve been in love with reader’s workshop for a long time now. Like many relationships, in the beginning I romanticized aspects of it, and took other parts for granted. In the beginning, we shared airy spring days, fragrant with hope and pinky white bloom. Smatterings Read more…
Disrupting the Literary Canon: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy Billy Buddby Herman Melville Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne These titles could have been pulled from any high Read more…
By: Jessica Michael Bowman When I transitioned from my role as classroom teacher to that of literacy coach, I knew it would take some getting used to and I expected there would be growing pains. While the transition was still fresh, a colleague asked me what it was that I Read more…
By: Jessica Michael Bowman While I wasn’t able to attend #NCTE18, I have been fangirling from the sidelines. I’m not the tweetiest of Twitterers, but in the days following that prolific meeting of kindred hearts and minds, I refreshed, scanned, and refreshed Twitter repeatedly – the bleary, red-rimmed eyes of Read more…
Today’s post is brought to you by guest contributor Kayla Good, Language Arts teacher extraordinaire at Poca Middle School. We love Kayla’s smart reflection on her craft and the work that engages her students. By Kayla Good I am a firm believer that teaching children empathy and understanding is of utmost Read more…