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What necessary structural changes need to be made to support and nurture the mental well-being of teachers?

Heinemann Podcast Commuter Series: Multilingual Learner Rights

Beginning to use Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) is all about making sense of children’s thinking, listening to your students, and experimenting with your classroom practice.

This week on the podcast, Thomas Newkirk and Ralph Fletcher discuss Tom's new book Literacy's Democratic Roots.

By understanding and valuing each writing process stage, you can guide students from initial ideas to completed works. Because as writing mentors, our goal isn’t just to teach writing—but to inspire a love for it.

Heinemann Podcast Commuter Series: The Essential Practice of Reading Aloud to Students

This week on the podcast, Kylene Beers joins to share what's new in the second edition of When Kids Can't Read.

In our forthcoming book, How to Become a Better Writing Teacher, we focus on the question of how to help teachers become good writing teachers.

Heinemann Podcast Commuter Series: Why Reading Joy Matters

The audiobook of The Literacy Studio: Redesigning the Workshop for Readers and Writers

This week on the podcast, we talk with Sue O'Connell about literature-based math practices and her upcoming event.

Learn to use decodable texts to plan effective small group work with this sample teaching sequence from Michael Rae-Grant.

As humans we have the great gift, the great evolutionary achievement, of speech and story. It’s what we do best—and all literacy instruction needs to honor and build on that gift.

Heinemann Podcast Commuter Series: Making the Work in Your Class Relevant

This week on the podcast, Berit Gordon talks with a district-level instructional coach about using The Joyful Teacher to energize educators at the start of the year with individualized, manageable goals.

As educators, we all want our students to have the skills and insights needed to navigate the world outside of their classroom. In this mission, the significance of relevance in reading cannot be understated.

Heinemann Podcast Commuter Series: Recognizing Trauma

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