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November 4, 2019October 22, 2019

Critical Consciousness and the Enhancement of Public Literacy- Part I

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post by Amira Abdel-Aal, Member of The Educator Collaborative Critical Consciousness and the Enhancement of Public Literacy*- Part I: Centralizing Students’ Lived Experiences *Some of this content was produced in ... Read more

October 25, 2019October 22, 2019

Identity: The Long Story or the Short Story?

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post by Elisa Waingort, 2018-19 Associate of The Educator Collaborative Identity–the Long Story or the Short Story? Identity has always been a highly contested term. Even though who you are ... Read more

October 21, 2019October 6, 2019

To Build Writers or Test Takers?

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post by Elsa Galindo, 2018-19 Associate of The Educator Collaborative To Build Writers or Test Takers? With so much emphasis on high stakes testing and scripted curriculum, very little faith ... Read more

September 30, 2019September 22, 2019

Breaking the Silence: Inviting Students to Write About Race

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by Tricia Ebarvia, Member of The Educator Collaborative Breaking the Silence: Inviting Students to Write About Race Every fall, I work with students on what’s probably the most high-stakes writing ... Read more

September 27, 2019September 19, 2019

Looking Closely at Student’s Reading and Writing

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post by Diana Palacios, The Educator Collaborative Fellow Looking Closely at Student’s Reading and Writing Teaching a child to read is a complex process. There are many prerequisite skills, including ... Read more

July 30, 2019

Talk Less, So Students Learn More

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post by Heather Rocco, member of The Educator Collaborative Talk Less, So Students Learn More Many years ago I was in a conference center room filled with over 100 high ... Read more

June 3, 2019

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

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post by Jackie Epler, 2018-2019 Associate of The Educator Collaborative Connecting Ellis Island and Immigration to Historical Fiction in the Upper Elementary Classroom As educators, we all have our favorite ... Read more

February 27, 2019January 20, 2019

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

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by Kate Roberts, The Educator Collaborative Network Member Register to watch Kate Roberts and Kristi Mraz’s 2018-2019 Study Series Session, “Making Reading Conferring Work,” on-demand through June 30, 2019.   ... Read more

February 10, 2019January 20, 2019

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

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by Peter Gangi, Literacy Coach and guest contributor, with Maggie Beattie Roberts, The Educator Collaborative Network Member Register to watch Maggie Beattie Roberts and guest young adult author, Karuna Riazi,’s 2018-2019 ... Read more

January 23, 2018January 18, 2018

Building Classroom Communities: The Power of Language

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“Words shape how we see ourselves and our actions. Words set a path for how we might act in the future. Words can empower us or destroy us.” – Kristi ... Read more

January 18, 2018January 18, 2018

Questioning the Practice of Questioning

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Too often “the question” becomes more important than the actual process of questioning. – Christopher Lehman Share this: ... Read more

October 14, 2016October 15, 2016

Vanquish the Time Vampires: Bell Ringers and Do Nows

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“Beware! Like all vampires, this one feeds on your life force. Not blood. Time.” – Christopher Lehman Share this: ... Read more

September 26, 2016October 1, 2016

Tips for Reading Aloud with Middle Schoolers

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“adolescents are awesome and also hardly focused on us at all. Ha. So, make lots of time to engage students in thinking…” – Christopher Lehman ... Read more

January 14, 2016January 13, 2016

Goals and Goal-Shielding: On Success and Failure

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“So, what’s a reading teacher to do? I think the best course is to focus on one thing at a time.” – Jen Serravallo ... Read more