THE BLOG
A Novel Approach Bookmarks: Interpretation Strategies Video Part One
As a part of A Novel Approach, we wanted to include some tools that might help you as you encourage your kids to tackle complex texts more independently, and to offer more choice to your older readers. We designed bookmarks for you and your students that we hope can help capture some of the teaching in the book in a usable, portable form.
We Don't Need No Rock Stars: The Danger of Celebrity Culture in Education
The culture of celebrity in education can do teachers a disservice, and I believe that most of the folks who share the same role as I do would agree. We love our job, and to do it well, we shouldn’t really be anyone’s rock star.
CCIRA Blog Guest Post: The Profound Wrongness of Peppa Pig
We had a chance to sit down and write some thoughts connecting our son's favorite (or is it favourite?) show and the trouble we have with, well, trouble. Check it out!
The Educator Collaborative Guest Post: The Healthy Skeptic
Check out a recent post on The Educator Collaborative Blog!
Live! On Facebook!
I had the pleasure of sitting down with my good friend Brett Whitmarsh on Facebook live over the past few weeks. These are short, focused discussions meant to zoom in on specific ideas in A Novel Approach. I will keep posting the links here as I keep barging into your newsfeed.
Take A Tour of A Novel Approach
I recently escaped all of my family responsibilities (thanks Maggie!) to film a quick tour of my latest book, A Novel Approach
It's Here! A Novel Approach: Whole Class Novels, Student-Centered Teaching, And Choice
I am so proud to announce the publication of my latest book, A Novel Approach. I will be posting a bunch of videos, blog posts and articles here in the days to come, so stay tuned to join the conversation!
We’re Leveling Up – Come with us!
We have been developing a new website with our friend and web designer, Rachel Hsiung, over the past few months. We are thrilled with the results and can’t wait to share it with you!
Let’s Work Together!
With every chapter that ends, a new chapter begins. We are happy to announce that we are available to work in your school or district beginning Fall/Winter 2016. We offer a variety support, such as...
A Goodbye.
Goodbyes are never easy, and this one is no different. We have worked for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project for a decade and change. Our work there has shaped us into the educators we are today...
Stay tuned for our new DIY Literacy video series!
In the spirit of all things DIY, we are currently filming a homemade video series for our upcoming publication, DIY Literacy: Teaching Tools for Differentiation, Rigor, and Independence. We gave an open call for your problems and did you deliver! Each week, we will field one of your questions and design a teaching tool to help address that problem in real time.
Send us your problems!
We need your help! (And your problems.) We are creating a video series here at indent about our upcoming book: DIY Literacy: Teaching Tools for Differentiation, Rigor, and Independence. In this 8-part series, starting in early April...