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Strategically planning your daily read-alouds can help you get the most out of this valuable practice.

This week on the Heinemann Podcast we’re learning about affective learning and personal identity work in education.

Our vision for book clubs continues to be a work in progress. It is informed by our own experiences and our ongoing dialogue with fellow educators.

If children are to develop as a learning community, they must believe that their efforts to engage with each other and with ideas matter.

It is imperative that K–12 teachers find ways to affirm students’ cultures and identities so they can make history.

Some texts affirm our lives based on similarities and connections, while others provide us a window into the unfamiliar.

If we accept that discomfort is inevitable but silence is not a strategy, what practices or systems in your school can you examine in order to confront and change outcomes for students of color?

Learning these facts is not about rote memorization. Seeing and using patterns, and building relationships, can free children’s cognitive resources to be used in other tasks.

Today on the Heinemann Podcast we’re discussing Inquiry Illuminated: Researcher’s Workshop Across the Curriculum, the new book from Anne Goudvis, Stephanie Harvey, and Brad Buhrow.

When we say we teach students to remember, we mean we support students as they recall and retell—with specificity—what happened in their writing practice.

There are many things that can be done to help students use everything they know even when there isn’t an adult right next to them to remind them to do it.

How do we find helpful new resources without squandering funding or instructional time?

Managing classroom book clubs can be hard. Real hard. But honestly, is there any better way to get students vested in reading?

Just think how excited your students will be to see new books in the library. It adds a new spark and energy to reader’s workshop! Spring is around the corner!

Today on the Heinemann Podcast, we’re excited to bring you a special read aloud episode with author Kate Roberts. In her latest book, A Novel Approach Kate takes a close look at both whole-class novels and independent reading...

Lester and Katie offer a framework that can both deepen and broaden students’ understandings, insights, and empathy for the greater human family.

A good demonstration is specific, focused, and clear. Thinking aloud while demonstrating is an important way to show not just what we are doing but also how we are doing it. Modeling is not the same as demonstrating. Modeling is an important part of high-quality teaching, but in a focused strategy lesson, demonstrating is more effective.

To learn together, children need to figure out how to live in the confined space of a classroom, developing processes that enable them to navigate their environment, and each other, with care, respect and trust.