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An overlooked key to success? Teaching teachers how to teach reading 07/27/2017
As Vice Principal at Gordon Denny Community School, I was part of the leadership team that led our transition to a school-wide literacy model. At the time, 32 percent of our students were testing below grade level in literacy. Once we assessed the situation we learned, as so many schools do, that a large part […]
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Reading, Writing & Eclipse-Watching: How We Got Our Students Excited About Aug. 21 07/27/2017
As educators, when we heard about the total solar eclipse that will cross the continental U.S. on Aug. 21, we realized that we were in the privileged position to help our students learn about and experience a phenomenon that rarely occurs in our backyard! We decided to help our students become eclipse experts so they […]
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13 Tips for Teaching News and Information Literacy 07/27/2017
How can educators teach elementary and middle school students to be critical consumers of news and media? We asked media literacy experts—teachers and librarians—for their best tips. Here’s what they had to say. Tip 1: Give them the vocabulary. “Much of media literacy exists in an abstract space, so I teach my youngest students the […]
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