Sensitivity to Holidays
Writing About the Holidays The holiday season, for many, extends from November through February. Families will be celebrating Diwali, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and the New Year at various times during these months. Writing about holidays is a wonderful way to share cultures in words, pictures, and music. Yes, holidays also…
Early Career Educators of Color Leadership Award Winners
EC-EOC 2018-19 Award Winners EC-EOC 2018-19 Leadership Vision Statements -July 2018
Patterns for Thoughtful Conversations
Sentence Stems Stimulate Thinking, Talking and Writing Now is a good time to begin modeling ways to increase the classroom participation among your students. These sentence starters prepare them to have more thoughtful conversations and to write more insightful compositions using the language we expect to see in their writing. …
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month What an exciting time to feature the contributions of LatinX Writers, Speakers and Movie Makers! Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with culturally relevant texts, video, and speeches that give students opportunity to expand and explore their emerging ELA skills. Read about Historically Significant Events then invite students to share what they've…
Prepping for New School Year
Getting Off to a Good Start As the school year begins, and you're considering the range of ideas to improve or modify your teaching, think about using GENERAL GRADING GUIDELINES (at this link), and ask students to commit to earning the grade of their choice. Then do what you can to help…
Cross Curricular Resources
Update Your List of Lesson Planning Web Resources So grateful to viewers who share websites that help kept us up to date on resources. Henlee Phillips shared this one. Check it out. STUDENT GUIDE TO MATH EDUCATION Note the links to short lessons that help a family review basic…
Prep for Semester Exam
Prepare Now to Assess Begin now and ensure that your students will be ready to do well on the semester exams. First, write in your own words specifically what plan to measure. Consider these ideas. (1) How well students recall what you’ve taught about ______________. (2) How well…
Women’s History Month – What’s New About Sexual Harassment?
Handmaid’s Tale- Characters and Current Events Literature and Life The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a particularly effective text in a unit on WOMEN'S HISTOR, DYSTOPIA or one linked to CURRENT EVENTS. I've found the unit to be more engaging when I asked to the students to look for…
POETRY-African American History Month Project
Celebrate Cultures February is a great time to incorporate an oral language component into your lessons and invite students to memorize and recite a poem by an African American poet. This assignment lists several to get you started. To increase confidence and decrease apprehension, give the students the grading criteria…
Inspire Curiosity
Getting Them Into a Book Are you familiar with the INTO, THROUGH and BEYOND strategy for teaching text? Looking for something that can work in a single period to get students into their next book? Here’s an idea may work for you this Spring. Distribute the book. Invite students to…