How Learning About Lightning Bug Butts Can Steer Kids Towards Science: Guest Post by Jason Bittel
Every kid loves learning about animals: the ones they want to cuddle, the ones they want to run away from, and the ones that can be gross [...]
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Five Reasons to Gamify Learning in Your Classroom
What is Gamified Learning? Gamified instruction uses design components of games and integrates them into classroom learning in some way. Many [...]
Reflections on Earth Day: The Power of a Book; The Power of Our Students
Some of my favorite teaching moments were spent after hours with a colleague of mine and a rambunctious group of sixth graders. We started a [...]
Literacy Is A Gateway To Upward Mobility: Guest Post by J. Elle
One of the questions I’m always asked is what inspired me to write my debut novel, Wings of Ebony. My answer is usually about repressed [...]
“Anton Treuer: Teaching Young Readers Everything They Need to Know About Indians”
Anton Treuer’s new book, the Young Readers Edition of Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, will be published April [...]
Steering All Students into the Best Lane: Guest Post by Torrey Maldonado
“You should’ve won a . . .” a student complimented me during my recent virtual visit to her private school. Right after her, other students in [...]
Room to Read: Why We Leave Space in Stories: Guest Post by Jarrett Pumphrey
Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey are a dynamic duo of brothers who are making a serious splash in the picture book world. Their first book, The Old [...]
Connecting through Art in your Secondary ELA Classroom
Every March, we celebrate young artists of all forms – it’s Youth Art Month! There are so many ways to bring art into the classroom, and there [...]
YA Lit that Shatters Stereotypes of Diverse Female Characters
This year’s International Women’s Day campaign theme is #ChooseToChallenge. The IWD website states, “A challenged world is an alert world. [...]
Carole Boston Weatherford on Giving Children the Truth They Deserve
The new year is off to a spectacular start for Carole Boston Weatherford’s books. Her title BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom was named a [...]
