What’s the best way to teach reading?
Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way? Why are so many educators ignoring settled research and brain science and doing their own thing instead? In “H...
Category: teaching
Recommended Reading: “I’m Gonna Rise Above What I Was Doing”
If you teach students who will be the first in their families to go to college, or if you teach urban students, this photographic interview, “I’m G...
TEACHER VOICES: Michele Godwin, #11“All parents love their children.”
Wednesday, 9/16 – 8:30 pm Having dinner with a friend and fellow teacher. We are complaining about our jobs, as we are wont to do when we get together. I...
On teachers and classroom libraries
Today I visited with Nancy Jo Turner, a good friend and former colleague, at Realm Charter School in Berkeley. We chatted and talked about life and about teach...
Recommended Reading: “The Day I Knew For Sure I Was Burned Out”
Sometimes you read something about teaching and say, “Yep, that’s exactly it.” Ex-teacher Ellie Herman has written such a piece. In “Th...