Using Urban Legends to Engage Struggling Readers
After teaching high school reading intervention courses for many years, I know that starting with a novel is a mistake—it’s too long... Then I tried Urban Legends...
After teaching high school reading intervention courses for many years, I know that starting with a novel is a mistake—it’s too long... Then I tried Urban Legends...
Do you remember the first time you entered the school library as a child? I do. There were books everywhere.
Why read when you can watch the movie? In my eight years as an educator, no other sentiments have been quite so crushing to hear from children.
My appreciation of musicals started with The Sound of Music soundtrack. As a child, I listened to the entire album. I branched out to other musicals discovering they comprised ...
So, here’s the secret to turning the forgotten into the benchmark: empathy. Honestly, that is what my team of eight educators work on day in and day out.
When you have a teacher who has presence, students are impacted in ways that positively affect the class; when you have a group of teachers who have presence, students are ...
After teaching at an alternative middle school for the past four years, the one thing I constantly hear from new students is, “we can move around in your room and not get in ...
Communication exercises and assignments have traditionally put introverts at a disadvantage by design.
As soon as I utter the words “writing assignment” a look of panic appears on my students’ faces.
Certain buzz words and topics come and go in the arena of education. Currently, the word to know is STEM, the acronym for science, technology, engineering, and math. When ...