Topic: Video

As we think about supporting vocabulary during remote teaching, it’s helpful to start with some big ideas about how people learn new vocabulary.

Educational rap artist Corey Thornton was contacted by the producers of GMA3 to share his story. Watch the video!

Listen in or watch as Dr. Sonja Cherry Paul and Tricia Ebarvia talk about centering racial equity in our literacy practices and their upcoming (virtual!) Institutes for Racial Equity in Literacy. #IREL20 ⁠

Lucy Calkins and colleagues discuss the challenges involved with teaching and leading during the coronavirus and answer attendees questions.

Collaboration isn’t kids working quietly and peacefully at all times—it can be noisy and it often involves some push and pull among members.

Reimagining a strategic learning space is mostly about being mindful of the evolving needs of learners.

Technology is a tool, not a goal, and it’s up to us to ensure that our students know how to use it effectively.

When students are provided opportunities to pursue writing in genres of their choice their engagement increases, which is a baseline requirement for a successful and joyful writing life.

If someone tells you teaching is easy, they probably don't really know teaching.

Cultural norms and adult attitudes and behaviors define for children which differences matter and which do not.

We had the chance to ask teachers what advice they would give themselves in their first year of teaching (if they had a time machine, of course). Here's what they had to say...

As teachers, our no responses must be about our students. Because our students and their needs are dynamic, those paths shift and change.

Our goal for all of our students is that they will use the skills we teach them independently.

It's important to talk about bias because we can't work against something that we don't know exists.

We have a responsibility to keep learning, because in each class, students will have different strengths and needs. When our learning stops, our teaching stops.

Today on the Heinemann Podcast we’re joined by Sonja Cherry-Paul and Dana Johansen, co-authors of “Breathing New Life into Book Clubs.”

“It’s time to rethink content instruction— no more dull slogs through the textbook! We love reader's and writer's workshop, so why not researcher's workshop?"

Taking the initiative to be reflective about one's inward identity can be enlightening!