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Getting Started, Your Next Lesson Thinking About September? Reflect on the Past to Prepare and Dissect Your Success!

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Bookshelf “Books That”: The Thoughtful Selection Process of Choosing Books That Lay the Foundation for Essential Conversations

Bookshelf, Leading Learners Reading for Love and Liberation

Bookshelf, Literacy Coaching Moving Forward One Book at a Time

Makers and Spaces Digital Literacies: Surviving and Thriving in Classroom Spaces

Why I Write, Writing Instruction Finding Time For a Writing Practice

Discourse, Your Next Lesson From One Healer to Another:  33 Suggestions for Social and Emotional Well-Being

Digital Literacy, Your Next Lesson Digital Phonics Instruction

Makers and Spaces Independent Reading is Born Out of Community

Discourse, Your Next Lesson The Promise of Universal Design in Designing Anti-Bias, Anti-Racist Learning Experiences

Discourse, Your Next Lesson Leyendo y Escribiendo en Comunidad / Reading and Writing in Community

Bookshelf, Your Next Lesson Connecting Readers to Characters Experiencing Mental Health Disorders

Discourse, Your Next Lesson Decolonizing Your Curriculum After a Summer of Protests and Pandemic

Leading Learners, Your Next Lesson Language and the Privilege of Participation

Bookshelf, Discourse A Letter From The Books

Position Statement Position Statement on School Reopening: “100% Remote” is the Best Option to Reduce Community Spread

Why I Write, Your Next Lesson Confessions of a Struggling Writer

Discourse, Your Next Lesson In Praise Of The Orator–and of Aural Composition

Your Next Lesson Kenny, The Student Who Taught Me About Giftedness & Assessment

Discourse Pandemic Pedagogy: Some Questions About Being “Successful” and Getting It “Right”

Discourse, Your Next Lesson Coronavirus, School Closures, and Important Considerations for Educators

Discourse, Your Next Lesson Talk That Grows Thinking

Bookshelf, Reading Instruction A Kinda, Sorta Love Letter to Reading Workshop (and the Community It Creates)

Discourse Three Important Things the “Reading Wars” (Tend to) Ignore

Why I Write, Writing Instruction Building a Community Through Writing

#EduJoy, Bookshelf Professional Development By The Books

Digital Literacy Both Digital and Disciplinary: Imagining Literacy Practices with the C3 Social Studies Framework

Your Next Lesson Words Matter

Book Ambassador, Bookshelf A Curious Inheritance – Part I

Book Ambassador, Bookshelf Library Crawl: Journeying From Library To Library To Get Your Kids Excited About Books!

Digital Literacy, Your Next Lesson Examining Multimedia Non-Fiction as a Mentor Text

Discourse, Your Next Lesson Critical Consciousness and the Enhancement of Public Literacy- Part III: Critical Consciousness: Becoming

Discourse, Your Next Lesson Critical Consciousness and the Enhancement of Public Literacy- Part II: Political Literacy

Discourse, Your Next Lesson Critical Consciousness and the Enhancement of Public Literacy- Part I

Why I Write #WhyIWrite (and Read)

Leading Learners, Writing Instruction Every Child Can Write

Discourse, Your Next Lesson Identity: The Long Story or the Short Story?

Writing Instruction, Your Next Lesson To Build Writers or Test Takers?

APPortunity Knocks, Digital Literacy Using GIFs to Make Vocabulary Learning Fun!

Discourse Turning Empathy Into Action

Reading Instruction All Readers Have The Right To Read Whatever They Want

Discourse Re-Reading the Word: Journeys Through Counter-Narratives

Your Next Lesson Breaking the Silence: Inviting Students to Write About Race

Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Your Next Lesson Looking Closely at Student’s Reading and Writing

Makers and Spaces The Quiet Ones: Introverts in the Classroom

Why I Write What I Learned as a Writer in the “Real” World

Writing Instruction Studying Films Encourages Elementary Writers

Discourse How To Complain

Reading Instruction 6 Tips for Planning a Successful Family Literacy Night

Leading Learners Let Them Teach: Opening Up Your Classroom to Student-Generated Lessons

Bookshelf The 2019 Global Kind Project: Some Favorite Read Alouds

Digital Literacy, Writing Instruction Beating The Bibliography Blues

Discourse, Getting Started Taking Inventory: Building A Positive School Culture from the Inside Out

Discourse Schools and Society as Mirror Images: Can We Change Our Reflection?

Your Next Lesson Talk Less, So Students Learn More

Makers and Spaces Tools to Make Your Teacher Heart (and Your Students’ Hearts) Happy

Discourse, Makers and Spaces LGBTQ Visibility: Handle with Care

Digital Literacy Substantive and Sustainable Digital Pedagogies: The Hidden Curriculum

Your Next Lesson Connecting Ellis Island and Immigration to Historical Fiction in the Upper Elementary Classroom

#31daysIBPOC Una carta para mis estudiantes en su graduación / A letter for my pre-service and in-service teachers on their graduation

Literacy Coaching Making Predictions Beyond Books: Students Expect What They Experience

Discourse Lloyd A. Barbee and Wisconsin’s Search for Justice After Brown v. Board

#EduJoy Making the World a Kinder Place: Participating in The Global Kind Project

#EduJoy 5 Reasons to Join the Spring 2019 #TheEdCollabGathering

Discourse #TheEdCollab is Proud to Join the #EducatorEquity Pledge

Your Next Lesson Don’t Hang Art on the Walls Until the Furniture is in Place: Using Teaching Tools to Build the Frames of Our Unit

Reading Instruction Nurturing Middle Grade Students’ Reading Lives

Your Next Lesson Kids Take the Lead: Flipping Small Group Work, Putting Students’ Learning Front and Center

Makers and Spaces Three Ways to Manage Your High School Writing Workshop More Efficiently

Writing Instruction Writing Help: But, What If They Copy Their Mentor Texts?

Digital Literacy From Wonder to Writing: Invite Students Into Inquiry Through Online Articles

Literacy Coaching Coaching Tips: Support First Year Teachers (Not Overwhelm Them)

Bookshelf “Making Our Way Across”: Lessons Learned from Minh Lê and Dan Santat’s Drawn Together

Discourse Tell The Story of Migrant Children and Families: Book & Resource Recommendations

Book Ambassador Celebration of Families (through Books!)

Discourse Stages of Grief: State Test Score Report Edition

Leading Learners Shadows on the Wall: The Promise and Perils of “Success”

Discourse Lockdown

RozTaughtMe #RozTaughtMe: Post 8 – Now and Then

Discourse Advice on Interviewing for Teaching Positions, From an English Supervisor Who Learned the Hard Way

RozTaughtMe #RozTaughtMe: Post 7 – Learning NF Facts From Pictures and Words

RozTaughtMe #RozTaughtMe: Post 6 – “Academic” and “Practical,” Being a Strong Scholar-Practioner

RozTaughtMe #RozTaughtMe: Post 5 – Skillfully, My 3rd Graders Use Adverbs

RozTaughtMe #RozTaughtMe: Post 4 – Focusing on What Matters Most by Tobey Antao

RozTaughtMe #RozTaughtMe: Post 3 – Book Lessons and Life Lessons

RozTaughtMe #RozTaughtMe: Post 2- Roz on Repeat: Using Repeating Words to Strengthen Writing

RozTaughtMe #RozTaughtMe: Post 1 – The Big Book of… Grammar!

Position Statement Supporting Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students and Educators: Position Statement

Discourse The Healthy Skeptic

Your Next Lesson Building Classroom Communities: The Power of Language

Your Next Lesson Questioning the Practice of Questioning

Blog On the Passing of our Friend and Colleague, Dr. Roz Linder

Position Statement Net Neutrality Position Statement: Save the Internet

Discourse 800,000 Children and Young Adults Are In Danger, We Must Act: #DreamActNow

Blog Goodbye Clip Charts, Marble Jars, and Stickers for Behavior

#EduJoy In September: The Book Chapter You Can’t Live Without

Discourse I am a genderqueer literacy educator.

Blog Strengthen Staff Relationships with Book Clubs

Blog CBMs with a Twist: Reading is About More Than the Speed

Blog In Memory of Kathleen Tolan, The Giving Tree

Book Ambassador NCTE: The Literacy Super Bowl

Blog A Species of Moonshots

Discourse Living, Breathing, and Teaching with Radical Love: What It Means, What You Need, and Where to Start

Makers and Spaces Authors, Inspiration and Breaking Book News! #WhyIWrite

Why I Write Welcome to the Absolute Dread Club #WhyIWrite

Why I Write Why WE Write: A Department That Writes Together #WhyIWrite

Why I Write I Write Because I Have To #WhyIWrite

Book Ambassador “Heartprint Books” and Our Next #TheEdCollab chat

Your Next Lesson Vanquish the Time Vampires: Bell Ringers and Do Nows

#EduJoy Special #TheEdCollab Chat: Building CommUNITY and Empathy through Books

Leading Learners Tips for Making Meaningful Change as an Instructional Coach

Your Next Lesson Tips for Reading Aloud with Middle Schoolers

Gathering Guest Posts Gathering Guest Post: Triangulating Assessment with a Student’s Perspective

Makers and Spaces Gathering Guest Post: Get Schooled: Sketchnoting, Doodling, and the Power of Visual Note Taking

Gathering Guest Posts Gathering Guest Post: Disciplinary Literacy: Inquiring Minds Want to Know…More!

#AgeOfLiteracy #AgeOfLiteracy: Somewhere in My Education

#AgeOfLiteracy #AgeofLiteracy: Do Less In Order to Do more

#AgeOfLiteracy #AgeOfLiteracy: Social Justice Literacy Leadership that Values Equity and Sustainability

#AgeOfLiteracy #AgeOfLiteracy: Want Better Writers? Make More Time for Independent Reading

#AgeOfLiteracy #AgeOfLiteracy: Three Rules for Literacy Leadership

#AgeOfLiteracy, Book Ambassador #AgeOfLiteracy: Read Aloud. Change the World.

Makers and Spaces #AgeOfLiteracy: Can’t Read vs. Won’t Read: Reading Engagement and African American Males

Gathering Guest Posts Gathering Guests: Poetry Love

Gathering Guest Posts Let Them Read!: Independent Reading at the Secondary Level

Gathering Guest Posts Asking Questions: Inquiry Learning and Analytical Writing

Gathering Guest Posts Coaching Small for a Big Impact

Gathering Guest Posts Gathering Guest Post: Amplify Learning with Images & Word

Gathering Guest Posts Gathering Guest Post: Unearthing Discovery, Surprise, and Play in Student Writing

Your Next Lesson Goals and Goal-Shielding: On Success and Failure

Discourse Out With The Old and In With The Old

Discourse Parent-Teacher Conference is Dead! Long Live Parent-Teacher Conference!

Book Ambassador From the Book Ambassador: An Invitation to Notice and Inspire

Your Next Lesson Deepening Inquiry With Young Learners

Your Next Lesson Nurturing a Culture of Celebration

Your Next Lesson Your Next Lesson: The “Right Book” is The Book They’ll Read

Your Next Lesson Your Next Lesson: “Could you slow down a little?”

APPortunity Knocks APPortunity Knocks: Flipped Instruction is Purposeful Pedagogy 

APPortunity Knocks APPortunity Knocks: No Need to be Showy with Technology

#EduJoy #Edujoy: Proof That Collaboration Creates Opportunity

Leading Learners Leading Learners: Be a Lead Reader

APPortunity Knocks APPortunity Knocks: 1-Device Classrooms Are Awesome, Too

Your Next Lesson Your Next Lesson: Nonfiction Doesn’t Need to Stink

Discourse Discourse: Boys read, too.

Leading Learners Leading Learners: How to Get Better at Getting Better (Teacher Edition)

Book Ambassador Books You Can Count On

Discourse Discourse: Ideas and the Internet

#EduJoy #EduJoy: A Love Letter to My PLN (Personal Learning Network)

Book Ambassador From the Book Ambassador: Literacy Snapshots

#EduJoy Edujoy: #TheEdCollabGathering Reflections

#EduJoy #TeacherPoets Session 3 (During #TheEdCollabGathering!)

Early Childhood Everything I Needed to Know (about teaching) I Learned in Kindergarten (while teaching)

#EduJoy #TeacherPoets Session Two

Discourse Discourse: Math, Literacy, and the Need for More Blank Paper

#EduJoy #TeacherPoets Session One

APPortunity Knocks APPortunity Knocks: Should it be the Class Blog or the Blog Class? (Part I)

Leading Learners Learning Leaders:Leading Learners – Making Independent Reading a Reality

Your Next Lesson Your Next Lesson – It’s all about the Hashtag: What’s TRENDING in the TEXT?