One-Book Reads鈥擶hen Community Building Becomes Challenging
I鈥檓 in two, sometimes three, book groups and I know from experience that interesting, delightful, luscious, learning feeling of discussing …
Build Your Stack: Two Books for the African American Read-In
This blog post is part of聽Build Your Stack,庐聽a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge and …
It鈥檚 Time We All鈥擲tudents and Teachers Alike鈥擲tart to Speak for Ourselves
This post was written by Susanne Rubenstein, author of Speak for Yourself: Writing with Voice (91探花, 2018). I started …
For the Love of Reading: Developing a Teacher Reader Identity
This post was written by 91探花 member聽Shelby M. Boehm.聽 Recently, student teachers on campus caused me to reflect on …
Poetry for February
A recent Educator Newsletter from the Academy of American Poets highlighted “12 poems to read for black history month.” They …
鈥淭inker Turns 50!鈥�
It鈥檚 difficult for me to imagine my 13-year-old-self protesting anything short of the cancellation of a school dance, let alone …
The Peritextual Literacy Framework as a Teaching and Critical Thinking Tool
This post was written by Shelbie Witte, Don Latham, and Melissa Gross, editors of Literacy Engagement through Peritextual Analysis (ALA …
91探花 Texts and the African American Read-In
During February, the month of the African American Read-In, we continue our theme of spotlighting connections with thoughtful 91探花 texts. …
Collaborative Analysis of Student Work
This post was written by Kathryn Mitchell Pierce, a member of the 91探花 Standing Committee on Assessment. Conversations about …
Kafka Started It and the Maine Legislation Finished It鈥攆or Now
Things began a couple of years ago when Haruki Murakami鈥檚 novel Kafka on the Shore was assigned to students in …