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Units of study for Teaching Reading: A Curriculum for the Reading Workshop, Grades 3–5
Lucy Calkins and her colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project have helped hundreds of thousands of teachers launch and implement rigorous and responsive reading and writing workshops.Now they have written an unprecedented curriculum for the reading workshop based on their work—Units of Study for Teaching Reading.
A rigorous and responsive course of study for students Powerful and empowering professional development for teachers
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RTI From All Sides: What Every Teacher Needs to Know
Presented by Mary Howard
Response to Intervention (RTI) has quickly become common terminology in the field of literacy. RTI is based on a powerful framework that has the potential to change the way we address reading in schools due to a renewed emphasis on approaching literacy from a school-wide perspective.
This workshop will explore RTI from All Sides by identifying the critical features that turn RTI from a good idea on paper to a powerful framework.
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There has been some confusion in my school on how to score a 'told' on the running record for the benchmark system. It is my understanding that each told counts as one error each time. Other teachers were told that if you give a told, you must count that as an error each time that word appears in ...
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Mark Driscoll has been named the recipient of the Ross Taylor/Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award from the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM). He is the coauthor of Fostering Geometric Thinking and its accompanying toolkit, and author of Fostering Algebraic Thinking, the book Mathematics Teacher called "an important tool in our collective effort to improve the quality of mathematics instruction."
Nancie Atwell has been named the 2010 Teacher of the Year by River of Words; a California-based non-profit educational organization.
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