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Team Teaching: With careful planning it’s not a luxury
Without teamwork, we cannot prepare students to meet the challenges of the next millennium. If each teacher individually tries to address every curricular objective and cycle back to the broader...
View ArticleStudy guide for TeamWork now available
The authors of TeamWork compiled a study guide to use by yourself or with a study group to help you reflect on ideas in the book. In each section of this professional development guide you will find an...
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Questions & Authors: Put students in charge of learning
In Part I of our three-part Questions & Authors series with the authors of TeamWork: Setting the Standard for Collaborative Teaching, Grades 5-9, Monique Wild talks about how she used student-led...
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Questions & Authors: Keeping teaching and life in balance
Many new and veteran teachers struggle with keeping their professional and personal lives in balance. The authors of TeamWork: Setting the Standard for Collaborative Teaching Grades 5-9 know this all...
View ArticleQuick Tip Tuesday: The Ongoing Pursuit of Knowledge
In Growing Readers, author Kathy Collins helps teachers lay a foundation on which children can build rich and purposeful reading lives. But to be able to support that foundation, Kathy says that...
View ArticleHow do you support new teachers?
How do you create a sense of community for new teachers in your school? How do you support new teachers’ instructional decisions? What are some successful ways of looking at literacy assessment with...
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Quick Tip Tuesday: Counterfeit beliefs about conferring
In this week’s Quick Tip, Patrick Allen tackles some of the myths about conferring. In his new book, Conferring: The Keystone of Reader’s Workshop, Patrick maintains that the benefits of conferring...
View ArticleQuick Tip Tuesday: Parent/teacher conferences
Parent/teacher conferences can be stressful for both parties, but even more stressful to new teachers who are navigating this delicate relationship for the first time. In this week’s Quick Tip, the...
View ArticleQuick Tip Tuesday: Building a shared voice for a comprehensive literacy plan
In Synchronizing Success: A Practical Guide to Creating a Comprehensive Literacy System, literacy leader Maren Koepf tells the story of how her elementary school developed and implemented a schoolwide...
View ArticleQuestions & Authors: Integrating inquiry, assessment, and strategic teaching
In Pulling Together: Integrating Inquiry, Assessment and Instruction in English Classrooms, Leyton Schnellert and his coauthors present a comprehensive answer to the current big ideas in teaching:...
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