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As they read, it’s important for students to get in the habit of asking not what, what, what, but why and how...

Today on the podcast we’re discussing the value of teaching talk in the classroom.

In Children Want to Write, the chapter titled “Reflect, Reflect, Reflect” included what may well have been Don Graves’ greatest, most honorable essay.

Until fairly recently, many committed science educators downplayed the idea that reading and writing play an important role in learning science.

When you teach talk, you are teaching something that kids can use in reading, in writing, in math, in science, in social studies...

In this fourth installment to Minjung Pai's mini-series, Min speaks with Dr. Asao Inoue on unlearning white supremacist language in the classroom.

Because of bias, we’ve created institutions that reflect and enact it on people.

Learn more about the audiobook of Children Want to Write...

Name stories are individuals’ explanations of the personal or traditional meaning, importance, or origin of their names

Today on the podcast, we're handing the podcast over to Heinemann Fellow Brian Melton...

Read the foreword to Liz Prather's new book, Story Matters, written by Kelly Gallagher. Story Matters tells the importance of learning through the power of story.

If someone tells you teaching is easy, they probably don't really know teaching.

Today on the podcast, we're handing the podcast over to Heinemann Fellow Brian Melton!

Jen joins us to talk about the work that went into developing The Reading Strategies Book in Spanish as well as the Writing Strategies Book in Spanish.

Learn more about the audiobook of Being the Change by Sara Ahmed!

This excerpt from A Guide to the Phonics Units of Study focuses on the importance of high engagement and supporting all members of a learning community.

Evidence has converged on several important elements of a phonics lesson. Here are 5 research-based essential parts of a phonics lesson.

This past year I engaged in an informal teacher-researcher project focused on an unrelenting question in my mind about the range of text complexity in elementary classroom libraries.