Moving toward standard-based grading
Here’s a question I get too often from students: “If I do good on this assignment, will it raise my grade?” And here’s another: “C...
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Reading as hero-making
I’ve just finished reading Carol Jago’s With Rigor For All, a defense of teaching the classics. When Jago’s talking about classics, she’...
Quick reflection on teaching reading so far this year
I unveiled to my students The 1,000,000 Word Challenge this year, a focus on independent reading. So far, the results are mixed. While it’s been hard movi...
Listening to my students using Google Voice
How often and for how long do you truly listen to your students? I don’t mean listening to an answer they give or a comment they make in class. I mean lis...
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Instead of assigning everything my students will read, I’m trying something new this year: a move to Reading Workshop in my English 9 class. My ninth gra...