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Purposefully welcoming small talk into your classroom, sometimes, is a powerful way to teach.

If we want to teach students to apply a range of strategies to make meaning from a range of texts, we need to be strategic about what this means for curriculum & instruction.

In this episode, Julia sits down with Janet Damon to talk about how libraries can be healing spaces.

Ultimately The Reading Strategies Book is helping Beaverton teachers answer that difficult teaching question: What’s next?

Bob Kim explores his work around what he calls 'discipline disparity' and the school to prison pipeline.

The Caring Teacher offers a challenge to all of us all to find a way to care about every student, especially the ones who feel the hardest to like.

Students can be made aware of all the decisions they are making when crafting a photo and be encouraged to apply that thinking to their writing.

Today on the podcast we have a special conversation hosted by author Carl Anderson with his longtime friend and colleague, author Matt Glover.

Space can have both a positive and a negative impact on our decision-making process.

The Artful Read-Aloud shares guiding principles drawn from the arts and meant to spark engagement, provoke inquiry, and inspire deep thinking.

Clearly, it is time to stop doing what we have always done with our middle and high school students while expecting different results.

Today on the podcast we’re happy to welcome authors Martin Brandt and Tom Newkirk. Marty is most recently the author of Between the Commas.

Jennifer Serravallo shares some of her best quick and helpful tips for taking notes during reading conferences and small group work.

Heinemann Fellow Marian Dingle is joined on the podcast by Dr. Toya Jones Frank of George Mason University!

From Friday January 17, 2020 to Monday, January 20, we will be immersed in inquiry in Charleston, SC, at Curiosity Across the Curriculum: Pursuing Engagement, Literacy, and Action through Inquiry hosted by "Smokey" Daniels, Nancy Steineke, Chad Everett, Kristin Ziemke, and Sara Ahmed.

Inquiry is a tool we can use to reflect on our biases and the impact on our classrooms in this PLC series post.

Irene and Gay share their story of The Literacy Continuum and how it evolved into the indispensable tool educators know and use today.

Here, you will find videos of all of the speakers from this year’s Donald Graves Living Legacy Breakfast.