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The American Institutes for Research (AIR), a not-for-profit, independent research firm based in the greater Washington, D.C., area, has completed the first objective, rigorous, quasi-experimental study of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project’s reading and writing workshop and Units of Study curriculum.

Today on the podcast, we’re bringing you a special preview chapter from Colleen Cruz’s new audiobook, Risk. Fail. Rise.: A Teacher’s Guide to Learning from Mistakes.

Alex Shevrin Venet and Arlène Elizabeth Casimir, two trauma-informed educators, share why teachers need to slow down for themselves and their students.

Heinemann Author Cornelius Minor featured on the Today Show's special series, Teachers on the Front Lines.

Heinemann is pleased to announce the latest addition to our growing line of audiobooks, Risk. Fail. Rise: A Teacher’s Guide to Learning from Mistakes by M. Colleen Cruz.

Heinemann is pleased to announce the latest addition to our growing line of audiobooks, Between the Commas: Sentence Instruction That Builds Confident Writers (and Writing Teachers) by Martin Brandt.

The number 2020 once signified perfect eyesight, or clearer hindsight gained from the passage of time. For the world of education, 2020 now represents a high-stress whirlwind of redesigning teaching and learning, far outpacing the prior, frequent changes in education, all while still living in and surviving a pandemic.

Colleen Cruz joins experts in various areas of education to talk about the common mistakes we make and how to learn from them, instead of fear them.

Islah Tauheed shares her experience in building online community, as using it as tool to foster conversations about racial equity and justice.

Schools can take steps to increase student racial diversity--but sometimes putting policies into practice is more complicated than it should be.

This is not a business-as-usual kind of school year. Be mindful of the human beings in front of you — and yourself. Some things to consider from Kelly Boswell, author of Every Kid A Writer.

Learn how to pay attention to your emotions in your teaching so that you can identify and challenge mistaken beliefs and replace them with accurate thinking.

Mistakes are part of learning. How do we address our own mistakes and model our responses? How do we create a mistakes-welcoming classroom?

Many people have a very narrow definition of play, seemingly characterized by random chaos, but playful experiences can be planned and have structure and still allow for wonderfully unpredictable things to happen.

When a school provides coaching for teachers, that support can nourish the ecosystem like fresh rain soaking soil. Teaching can be isolating. Coaching can be a replenishing gift.

The Heinemann Podcast is celebrating four years and 200 episodes!

Last week, Lucy published a Facebook post in response to recent reports that she and her colleagues at TCRWP had changed or updated their thinking. We invite you to read her words.

If our students are to become the citizens our society needs, we need to prepare them for this struggle.