The Educator’s Bible
High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching by Jim Knight “spectacularly delivers on its promise” to present a comprehensive framework for great teaching, says Julie Dermody. “It’s a career investment.”
Teaching and learning in grades 4-8
Rethinking Accommodations and Modifications
All students on IEPs have accommodations; many also have modifications. How do we implement these in our inclusive, co-taught classrooms?
Building a Culture of Excellence
Reviewer Elisa Waingort finds Ron Berger’s 2003 book, An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students, timeless and timely, with concrete suggestions for building a classroom culture of excellence.
3 Steps to Improved Behavior
Positive discipline is supported by brain research about adolescent learning, say the authors of U-Turn Teaching. So demonstrate, facilitate, motivate.
Unpacking the Common Core
This teacher-friendly book, Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement by Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher Lehman, helps us understand what the ELA CCSS really say and how to bring them to life in classes, writes reviewer Julie DeMicco.
Dadgum It, I’m Mad as Heck
Anne Jolly is mad as heck as she watches teachers struggle to implement STEM projects while drilling kids for high stakes tests that don’t measure deep learning.
Good Recipes for ELA Classrooms
In The Literacy Cookbook: A Practical Guide to Effective Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening Instruction, Sarah Tantillo’s banquet of tasty recipes for good literacy instruction are also a helpful ELA Common Core resource, says reviewer Linda Biondi.
How to Make Co-Teaching Work
MiddleWeb blogger Elizabeth Stein shares highlights from a recent day-long learning session with Anne Beninghof, author of “Co-Teaching That Works.”
Amazing STEM Jobs
Along with familiar STEM career choices like mechanical engineer and computer systems analyst, Anne Jolly is discovering some intriguing specialty jobs!
Students Without Outside Help
How do we help kids with less support outside of school? “Two Teachers” blogger Laurie Wasserman shares some ways she & her school go the extra mile.
