Heinemann Blog

Today on the podcast, we're handing things over to Heinemann Fellow Marian Dingle.

Heinemann Fellow Irene Castillón looks at mentorship through a new lens...

Today on the podcast we’re examining the relationship between photography and writing.

Heinemann Fellow Janelle W. Henderson shares a reflective letter.

When writing nonfiction, we have the whole gamut of narrative techniques at our disposal, but we aren’t just telling a story.

In this episode, Sonja and Dana chat with Brett Whitmarsh about the role of technology in book clubs, and what is at the heart of starting a strong book club.

The ability to manipulate phrase and clause structures is the very essence of what makes a skilled, confident writer.

In this episode, Sonja and Dana chat about the value of book clubs, and how they can become a tool to disrupt the idea that our job and mission is to teach books…when really it should be to teach readers.

We leave our closets in hopes of freedom, and we are often greeted with the responsibility of making our schools more inclusive for students and teachers just like us.

How do you feel about grammar? For many of us, it was a frustrating exercise that kept writing inaccessible.

The PLC series continues with ways to reach literacy goals of increased reading access to books, and time spent reading and writing.

Comparing a writer’s notebook to a collection strikes a chord with kids, many of whom are collectors themselves.

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.