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Centering What Matters to Children: How to Connect Your Teaching to Your Students’ Passions and Inquiry Questions
How do you decide what to focus on in your teaching? Our Kids, Books & Anti-Racism series speaker Vivian Vasquez starts by observing what her students care about.
Teaching for Fluency All Day, Every Day
Here are a few tips to integrate intentional teaching for fluency, without adding anything new to your day.
New Diverse Titles to Add to Your Classroom Library
Inspired by the first session in our Kids, Books & Anti-Racism Series, Literacy Coach Mary Cronin shares a few book recommendations of her own.
Facilitating Conversations about Race: Kids, Books & Anti-Racism Series
Jennifer Orr, our next Kids, Books & Anti-Racism Series featured speaker, discusses how books can serve as a starting point when facilitating conversations about race.
Carla España: Promoting Access and Equity Through Literacy
Looking back on the first session of our annual Kids, Books & Anti-Racism Series, professor and author Carla España focused on how to teach in a way that’s inclusive to children from different language backgrounds.
Drawing: An Important Part of the Writing Process
When students draw before writing it helps them visualize what they want to say. They include details in their drawings that they will later express in their writing using words.
Ensuring Strong Reading Skills for Grades 3-6
Foundational skill learning does not end in primary grades. Students in grades 3-6 require ongoing instruction in phonics, spelling and word study.
Our Top Posts from 2023
As the year winds to a close, let’s pause and reflect on the wealth of learning and collaboration that has enriched our Center in 2023. Check out these standout blog posts!
Spring 2024: 8-Week Online Graduate Courses
Stay cozy this spring and improve your career with an online course, where you can learn at your convenience.
Three Reasons Why a Writer’s Notebook is an Important Tool for Writers
Encouraging your students to keep a writer’s notebook can nourish their informational and literary writing all year.
Upcoming Professional Development
Energizing Student Writing Through Vision, Purpose, and Voice (Complimentary Webinar)
Do your students’ writing pieces often look similar or lack variety in structure and organization? In this complimentary 45-minute webinar, we will explore the importance of supporting students during the planning process so they can clearly communicate their message and make purposeful decisions about their writing.
Effective Reading Instruction: Community & Practice, K-8
This 8-week, online course will teach the rationales and organizational components of classroom reading instruction. You will examine effective instructional practices and strategies to strengthen reading development for a wide range of readers, including multilingual learners.
Building Deep Thinkers Through Reading: Engaging Students in Robust Comprehension
Let’s teach readers to think deeply. Join us to explore robust comprehension as an active, layered, and dynamic process to synthesize ideas, make inferences, and critique texts – not just recall facts.