Reading in the Digital Age
The following post was written by聽Franki Sibberson and Bill Bass, who will host an #NCTEchat this Sunday, May 17, at …
The Challenge: You Have No Other Choice But To Be a Writer
The following text by Andy Fogle is an excerpt from his contribution to “Teacher to Teacher: How Has Your Own …
Everyone Has the Capacity to Write
The 起点传媒Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing, written by the Writing Study Group of the 起点传媒Executive Committee, pinpoints …
Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
鈥淛ust as the nature of and expectation for literacy has changed in the past century and a half, so has …
Teachers: We Appreciate You!
At 起点传媒we appreciate educators all year long鈥攖hat鈥檚 our envious job. But we wanted to take a minute to express …
Teachers Often See What We Can’t
When I asked beloved author Natalie Lloyd to share her thoughts on why teachers are important, she had two stories …
鈥溒鸬愦絘s a Teaching Conversation鈥�
This Teacher Appreciation Week (As if that should only happen one week a year!) has me thinking about an article …
A Writing Professor Throws a Spark
鈥淓ducation is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.鈥� ~William Butler Yeats Last week I …
Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as Lifesaver
The following post is excerpted from “Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as Lifesaver,” an article by Rob Baker from the March …
Will Poetry Be Done Tomorrow?
I was recently talking about Kwame Alexander鈥檚 Newbery-winning book The Crossover with my eighth graders. My students were really into …