A Year of Reading

Texts for this Text Set have been posted daily on Instagram.  Follow @TextSets there to get daily updates!      This week, I'll be shari...

Today, the book Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative by Cathy Fleischer and Antero Garcia is available! This is an...

The #cyberPD book this year is Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension . The last chunk we read was c...

Now, consider what kinds of beliefs can take root if we don't provide opportunities for kids to become better informed, if we le...

The #cyberPD book this year is Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension . In Week 2, we read chapters ...

The #cyberPD book this year is Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension . I'm not going to outline...

Dynamic Teaching for Deeper Reading by Vicki Vinton MUST read. Disrupting Thinking by Kylene Beers and Bob Probst MUST read....

As I get ready for summer reading, my stack of professional books is growing. Right now, these are the 4 I am looking most forward to readi...

I have been trying to fit more professional reading into my life lately. There are so many great professional books that have been pili...

Making Nonfiction From Scratch by Ralph Fletcher Stenhouse, available late November 2015 When I got the  Stenhouse Publishers  Newsl...

I have been doing a lot of professional reading lately.  I am reading three professional books that are really helping me think about how b...

Readers Front & Center: Helping All Students Engage with Complex Text by Dorothy Barnhouse      Stenhouse, 2014 This is a book a...

March 2014 Teaching Children Mathematics (NCTM) "Digital Date Equations" Although this is not a particularly new activity -...

I've been very behind on my professional reading and am so glad I have summer to catch up. I picked up a copy of Connecting Compreh...

I returned to the classroom last year after 4 years as an elementary librarian. The two years before I became a librarian, I taught only...