Topic: Video

When students are provided opportunities to pursue writing in genres of their choice their engagement increases, which is a baseline requirement for a successful and joyful writing life.

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

Cultural norms and adult attitudes and behaviors define for children which differences matter and which do not.

We had the chance to ask teachers what advice they would give themselves in their first year of teaching (if they had a time machine, of course). Here's what they had to say...

As teachers, our no responses must be about our students. Because our students and their needs are dynamic, those paths shift and change.

Our goal for all of our students is that they will use the skills we teach them independently.

It's important to talk about bias because we can't work against something that we don't know exists.

We have a responsibility to keep learning, because in each class, students will have different strengths and needs. When our learning stops, our teaching stops.

Today on the Heinemann Podcast we’re joined by Sonja Cherry-Paul and Dana Johansen, co-authors of “Breathing New Life into Book Clubs.”

“It’s time to rethink content instruction— no more dull slogs through the textbook! We love reader's and writer's workshop, so why not researcher's workshop?"

Taking the initiative to be reflective about one's inward identity can be enlightening!

Authentic, purposeful talk is, by nature, unpredictable, but your teaching doesn’t have to be.

Knowing our students helps us to choose the most useful resources for them and to make every moment of our precious instructional time count.

Our vision for book clubs continues to be a work in progress. It is informed by our own experiences and our ongoing dialogue with fellow educators.

Some texts affirm our lives based on similarities and connections, while others provide us a window into the unfamiliar.

If we accept that discomfort is inevitable but silence is not a strategy, what practices or systems in your school can you examine in order to confront and change outcomes for students of color?

How do we find helpful new resources without squandering funding or instructional time?

Lester and Katie offer a framework that can both deepen and broaden students’ understandings, insights, and empathy for the greater human family.