This year I have the privilege of attending all four days of NCTE and two days of The ALAN Workshop. Up until now, I had always been a classroom teacher who had to pay her own registration and travel, take her only two personal days, …
Keeping the “Circuit” Live: Rosenblatt, Pre-Service Teachers, and the Library
Especially in high school years, we should help young people to discover the power of literature to enable us to experiment imaginatively with life, to get the feel and emotional cost of different adult roles, to organize and reflect on a confused and unruly reality, …
All Children Are All Our Children by Doug Selwyn
Today’s post comes from Doug Selwyn. Doug has been an educator for more than thirty years, the first half as a teacher in K–12 in the Seattle Public Schools and the second half in teacher education, first at Antioch University, Seattle and then for ten …
#ELATE19, Arkansas
ELATE, English Language Arts Teacher Educators, is a professional community engaged in the preparation, support, and continuing education of ELA teachers. Members meet yearly at NCTE and every two years for an intensive 3-day ELATE conference to share research and stories of effective English teacher …
Protected: The Summit, 2019
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A Radical Shift in Teacher Ed
This week, I had an idea. It happens sometimes. I am not arrogant enough to think this is an original idea nor have I done the research to be sure it is not already going on somewhere, but I do know that it is not …