What a classroom library shelf should look like
When teachers ask me to help them build a classroom library, I offer one key best practice to follow: Make it look like this: In other words, make it look like...
Category: reading
The Apartheid of Children’s Literature
Laura, my friend and sustaining donor of the Kindle Classroom Project, sent me a New York Times op-ed this morning that decried the lack of people of color in ...
2 quick ways to promote a reading culture
Today I got to visit my friend and former colleague Nancy Jo Turner, an excellent ninth grade English teacher in Berkeley. The first thing Nancy Jo did when I ...
Nice classroom library in Downers Grove, IL
Teachers who build impressive and beautiful classroom libraries make me really happy. Here’s one from Kathryn Nickell in Downers Grove, Illinois. She tea...
Research on e-readers in schools (#1)
Recently I rediscovered the excellent electronic databases at the San Francisco Public Library, which means I can get access to JSTOR and do other nerdy things...