Knowledgeable Leadership Critical in Adolescent Literacy Initiatives
Training and ongoing coaching are key aspects of successfully implementing any adolescent literacy initiative. However, years of experience demonstrates that even excellent and thorough professional...
View ArticleComprehensive Systems for Adolescent Literacy Development
Federal legislation was just introduced in the Senate yesterday to provide funding for future pre-K through 12 Literacy funding efforts – the LEARN bill. While the details of the bill are myriad,...
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Adolescent Literacy Systems and RTI
In working with many schools and districts, I regularly hear much concern, comment and effort from schools that are attempting to meet the requirements of RTI – Response to Intervention. RTI is a...
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Global Literacy – A Call for Action
Children gather to learn in an alternative setting In my work at CTL and in my personal life, I have opportunities to travel and work across the globe and into local settings in the developing world,...
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Building Sustainability in School Improvement
The research has been out there for 20+ years now. We know what high performing schools have that others do not – highly skilled and professional teachers, current resources and technologies, involved...
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The Zen of Teaching
Teachers view themselves as actioners, people who implement things and actions to have influence on and impact their clients, students. Those of us who teach focus our efforts on the doing of teaching,...
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The Textbook: Your New Best Friend (Part I)
Textbooks used to be the mainstay of instructional resources in the classroom. One of the greatest struggles teachers had was asking students to read the textbook, answer the questions, and be able to...
View ArticleThe Textbook: Your New Best Friend (Part II)
In my last post, I put my cards on the table about informational reading. I think we have had far too many distractions for far too long about the lack of reading skills that justify lecture, and...
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The Textbook: Your New Best Friend (Part IV)
In my last post, I talked about the ways in which teachers can better engage students in active reading of the textbook in their classrom – those during reading strategies that promote interaction...
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The Textbook: Your New Best Friend (Part III)
In my last post, I laid out a simple process for getting students familiar with your textbook before you ask them to use it. In a way, we can think of that process as the foundational “pre-reading”...
View ArticleComprehensive Systems for Adolescent Literacy Development
Federal legislation was just introduced in the Senate yesterday to provide funding for future pre-K through 12 Literacy funding efforts – the LEARN bill. While the details of the bill are myriad,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Adolescent Literacy Systems and RTI
In working with many schools and districts, I regularly hear much concern, comment and effort from schools that are attempting to meet the requirements of RTI – Response to Intervention. RTI is a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Global Literacy – A Call for Action
Children gather to learn in an alternative setting In my work at CTL and in my personal life, I have opportunities to travel and work across the globe and into local settings in the developing world,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Building Sustainability in School Improvement
The research has been out there for 20+ years now. We know what high performing schools have that others do not – highly skilled and professional teachers, current resources and technologies, involved...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Zen of Teaching
Teachers view themselves as actioners, people who implement things and actions to have influence on and impact their clients, students. Those of us who teach focus our efforts on the doing of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Textbook: Your New Best Friend (Part I)
Textbooks used to be the mainstay of instructional resources in the classroom. One of the greatest struggles teachers had was asking students to read the textbook, answer the questions, and be able...
View ArticleThe Textbook: Your New Best Friend (Part II)
In my last post, I put my cards on the table about informational reading. I think we have had far too many distractions for far too long about the lack of reading skills that justify lecture, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Textbook: Your New Best Friend (Part IV)
In my last post, I talked about the ways in which teachers can better engage students in active reading of the textbook in their classrom – those during reading strategies that promote interaction...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Textbook: Your New Best Friend (Part III)
In my last post, I laid out a simple process for getting students familiar with your textbook before you ask them to use it. In a way, we can think of that process as the foundational “pre-reading”...
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