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Small Moves, Big Change
We have long been fascinated with sports stories. We have written about Billy Beane, who changed the way baseball players are recruited; about the coach of the Vancouver Canucks, who gained an...
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Lexile Confounders
In Readers Front and Center: Helping All Students Engage with Complex Texts, Dorothy Barnhouse makes the point that, while the creators of the Common Core Standards advise teachers to “employ...
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How does Close Reading Fit Into Who’s Doing the Work?
Over the summer, several online discussions of Who’s Doing the Work? have cropped up, including the #G2Great group’s four week Twitter chat (Storify Links: read aloud, shared reading, guided reading,...
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Classroom Community and the Common Core: Lesson Sets for Elementary Classrooms
This time two years ago, the educational community was super-focused on becoming acquainted with the Common Core State Standards. We were exploring questions, such as what do the Common Core documents...
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What is College and Career Readiness Anyway?
In this hilarious video, George Costanza–who has just quit his job–talks about what he enjoys and the related jobs he would like to pursue. He finally decides that he should be a talk show host, and...
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Open a World of Possible with Engaging Literacy Instruction
Open a World of Possible is an initiative by Scholastic that celebrates the moments that turned people into readers. Dedicated to helping those moments happen again and again for children so that they...
View ArticleStaying the Course During Testing Season
On today’s blog, we reintroduce you to our friends and colleagues from North Carolina, Hope Reagan and Alice Oakley. Testing is a hot-bed topic in education and in this post, they share some of their...
View ArticleWhat is 21st Century Writing, Anyway?
Every six to eight years, education reinvents itself, usually focusing on the exact opposite of the most recent reinvention. Of late, influenced by the roll out of the Common Core State Standards,...
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The Cold (Humid?) Truth about Words
As the cold grips most of the United States, we begin today by asking you to imagine “unbearably humid” weather. (Does this ease the bite of the winter chill?) If you were describing this to someone...
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Sending Children Off to Do “Big Things”
We’ve been reading and studying Time journalist Amanda Ripley’s fascinating book The Smartest Kids in the World and How they Got that Way. In this book, Ripley investigates schooling in three...
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Challenging Instructional Dogma
When the Common Core Standards were released, “close reading” was a nebulous term that left many not only seeking to better understand what it was and how it served children, but also wondering what...
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Sending Children Off to Do “Big Things”
We’ve been reading and studying Time journalist Amanda Ripley’s fascinating book The Smartest Kids in the World and How they Got that Way. In this book, Ripley investigates schooling in three...
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Challenging Instructional Dogma
When the Common Core Standards were released, “close reading” was a nebulous term that left many not only seeking to better understand what it was and how it served children, but also wondering what...
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Lexile Confounder #2: Dewey Dew
Last week we wrote about some of the Lexile limitations we are bumping into in our work with children’s books. In particular, we reflected on the ways that How to Find Gold (Candlewick Press) confounds...
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Lexile Confounder #1: How to Find Gold
Earlier this week, we wrote about our expanding understanding of the ways Lexile measures misjudge books that don’t fit narrow parameters, and we promised to look more closely at a couple of texts that...
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Lexile Confounders
In Readers Front and Center: Helping All Students Engage with Complex Texts, Dorothy Barnhouse makes the point that, while the creators of the Common Core Standards advise teachers to “employ...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How does Close Reading Fit Into Who’s Doing the Work?
Over the summer, several online discussions of Who’s Doing the Work? have cropped up, including the #G2Great group’s four week Twitter chat (Storify Links: read aloud, shared reading, guided reading,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Classroom Community and the Common Core: Lesson Sets for Elementary Classrooms
This time two years ago, the educational community was super-focused on becoming acquainted with the Common Core State Standards. We were exploring questions, such as what do the Common Core documents...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What is College and Career Readiness Anyway?
In this hilarious video, George Costanza–who has just quit his job–talks about what he enjoys and the related jobs he would like to pursue. He finally decides that he should be a talk show host, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Open a World of Possible with Engaging Literacy Instruction
Open a World of Possible is an initiative by Scholastic that celebrates the moments that turned people into readers. Dedicated to helping those moments happen again and again for children so that they...
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