Educational strategies and policy

Ask great writers what the key to writing well is and they will tell you revision.

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Your teacher training may have provided sound theory and a collection of instructional techniques, but it's often the practical details that can make day-to-day survival difficult in your first days, weeks, and years of teaching.

With every lesson grounded in the critical strategy of writers talking out their revisions, Patterns of Revision will establish routines, practices, and mindsets to set you and your students up for success from day one.

Do you feel prepared to initiate and facilitate meaningful, productive dialogues about race in your classroom?

Effective, intentional teaching begins with a strong set of beliefs, but even the best teachers -- including author Debbie Miller -- struggle to make sure that their classroom practice consistently reflects their core convictions.

Never have policy initiatives been so important than in today's society.

The Literacy Workshop: Where Reading and Writing Converge is a first-of-its-kind resource that offers a practical process for creating an integrated literacy workshop using demonstration lessons that align with current curriculum standards.

English language arts teachers often find themselves defending their discipline and the practical values it has.

When writing workshops first blossomed in classrooms, its hallmarks were genuine curiosity, individual choice, quality conversations, and engaging children's literature.

In this much anticipated follow-up to their groundbreaking book, Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom, authors Jan Burkins and Kari Yates, together with co-author Katie Cunningham, extend the conversation in Shifting the Balance, Grades 3-5: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom.

In Reading Reasons: Motivational Mini-Lessons for Middle and High School, author and teacher Kelly Gallagher offers a series of mini-lessons specifically tailored to motivate middle and high school students to read, and in doing so, to help them understand the importance and relevance reading will take in their lives.

In her 30 years as an educator, Debbie Diller has closely examined classroom practice, asking Why?

In his years of teacher workshops, author Patrick Allen has heard it all: 'I don't have time!

Writing begins before students even pick up a pencil, but there are many reasons to stop and rejoice between the idea and the finished project.

Writing is all about making meaning.

Do you feel prepared to initiate and facilitate meaningful, productive dialogues about race in your classroom?

Social movements and events such as the Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate, the Supreme Court's ruling against the legality of employment discrimination against the LGBT population, and the growing diversity of the workforce serve as impetus for more diverse and engaging work contexts.

TeamWork: Setting the Standard for Collaborative Teaching, Grades 5-9is full of captivating stories and insightful conversations.

In his years of teacher workshops, author Patrick Allen has heard it all: 'I don't have time!

This book anchors shared reading as an essential element within a comprehensive and balanced literacy program.

Accessible Algebra: 30 Modules to Promote Algebraic Reasoning, Grades 7-10 is for any pre-algebra or algebra teacher who wants to provide a rich and fulfilling experience for students as they develop new ways of thinking through and about algebra.

Authors Franki Sibberson and Karen Szymusiak are back with an updated version of Still Learning to Read: Teaching Students in Grades 3-6, 2nd Edition.

When writing workshops first blossomed in classrooms, its hallmarks were genuine curiosity, individual choice, quality conversations, and engaging children's literature.

Disregarding the false notion that writing instruction in the primary grades needs to be mostly teacher directed, Jennifer Jacobson shows teachers how to develop a primary writer' s workshop that helps nurture independent, engaged writers.

In We Can Do This!

Imagine if going to school meant more than preparing kids for a test, teaching a canned curriculum, and training students for their future as workers.

In We Can Do This!

Tests require a special kind of savvy, a kind of critical thinking and knowledge application that is not always a part of classroom reading experiences.

Accessible Algebra: 30 Modules to Promote Algebraic Reasoning, Grades 7-10 is for any pre-algebra or algebra teacher who wants to provide a rich and fulfilling experience for students as they develop new ways of thinking through and about algebra.

Writing nonfiction represents a big step for most students, yet when they try to create a report or persuasive essay, they are often anxious and frustrated.

In The Art of Comprehension: Exploring Visual Texts to Foster Comprehension, Conversation, and Confidence, Trevor A.

Social movements and events such as the Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate, the Supreme Court's ruling against the legality of employment discrimination against the LGBT population, and the growing diversity of the workforce serve as impetus for more diverse and engaging work contexts.

Publishing podcasts, writing digital stories with choose your own adventure endings, and collaborating with students around the country through wikis, Skype, and VoiceThread, Julie D.

The Common Core State Standards require students to do more with knowledge and language than ever before.

In an increasingly demanding world of literacy, it has become critical that students know how to write effectively.

The Common Core State Standards require students to do more with knowledge and language than ever before.

In Writing Rhetorically: Fostering Responsive Thinkers and Communicators, author Jennifer Fletcher aims to cultivate independent learners through rhetorical thinking.

Do you find yourself asking: How am I supposed to put assessment, differentiated instruction, and multi-tiered instruction into practice?

Grounded in social and cognitive learning theories, the second edition of Apprenticeship in Literacy: Transitions Across Reading and Writing, K-4 still details the seven principles of apprenticeship learning and helps K -4 teachers implement and assess guided reading, assisted writing, literature discussion groups, word study lessons, and literacy centers across an integrated curriculum.

Whether writing a blog entry or a high-stakes test essay, fiction or nonfiction, short story or argumentation, students need to know certain things in order to write effectively.

The progress of several businesses was severely challenged through the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, with several businesses collapsing globally.

In their first edition of Mentor Texts, authors Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli helped teachers across the country make the most of high-quality children's literature in their writing instruction.

What does it mean to write or to be a writer?

If you've ever sat down to confer with a child and felt at a loss for what to say or how to help move him or her forward as a writer, this book is for you.

Why do I have to read this?

What do we know about literature circles now that we didn't understand eight or ten years ago?

If you've ever sat down to confer with a child and felt at a loss for what to say or how to help move him or her forward as a writer, this book is for you.

Writing test scores indicate that boys have fallen far behind girls across the grades.