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Rhetoric Meets Remedy: Showcasing Student Success
Imagine your classroom transformed into a gallery, a science exposition, or a story-telling stage, where students proudly display their work while...
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From Access to Excellence: Three Differentiation Moves You Can Use Tomorrow
December always asks a lot of us.
Close Reading Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated—10-Minute Strategies for Busy Weeks
When the calendar gets crowded with winter concerts, makeup quizzes, assemblies, and general mid-year chaos, the idea of doing a full close-reading...
5 Ways to Leverage Speaking & Listening to Build Better Writers
If you’ve ever waited longer than you thought humanly possible for a complete sentence to appear during a writing assignment (only to discover...
What's an Ethnolect? And Why Does It Belong in Your ELA Classroom?
As middle school educators, we know the moment when a learner comes alive in class. Maybe they're debating a character's motivation or crafting a...
Rhetoric Meets Remedy: Audio and Video Tools in a Collaborative Classroom
In the first blog post of the Rhetoric Meets Remedy series, I discussed the importance of teaching for transfer. Teaching for transfer is vital...
Rhetoric Meets Remedy: Teaching for Transfer
As a public educator, one of the most vital things that I try to get my students to understand is how all the information they learn works together...
From Chaos to Confetti: 5 ELA Routines That Make All the Difference
Okay, real talk without judgement: How often do you arrive at school in the morning only to second-guess your Middle School ELA class routines? You...
Beyond "Can You Help with Homework?"—Unlocking the Power of Multilingual Families
What happens when we stop seeing language diversity as a barrier and start embracing it as our greatest classroom asset?
5 Ways to Embed Whole-Class Novels While Still Teaching the Rest of your Content
Laura Kebart will help you connect novel studies to cross-curricular goals, enhancing engagement without sacrificing core skills. Watch the webinar...