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Using hip-hop as text means treating hip-hop culture as a legitimate source of knowledge. By engaging students with something familiar, teachers can strengthen student interest, engagement, and critical thinking skills.

Anchoring learning to local climate phenomena and climate actions creates opportunities to learn outside with communities beyond the classroom. Learn more in the blog from Content Literacy.

Always write first. It's the most critical rule when bringing AI into the writing classroom. So when in the writing process should we go to AI and what are the guardrails we can put in place for our teaching?

StoryWalks invite readers to walk along a path with staked pages of an engaging book related to the setting. Learn more about connecting literacy to surroundings in the post from Literacy Moves Outdoors.

If you can write a poem, you can change the world. When the world feels overwhelming, poetry can be a mechanism for truth, articulating the unarticulated, and is our best attempt to capture the humanity of life with words.

Students need time to explore using tools and manipulatives before using them as part of learning. Get to know these items, recognize the differences, explore the items just as students explore math concepts, and determine when they would be useful.

As a new teacher, you may find yourself asking the following: how do I manage the workload if I never feel done? How much time should I budget to stay on top of things? How can I make lesson planning, feedback, and assessment less time-consuming? Get quick tips from Berit Gordon.

Are you an English teacher wondering how AI can enhance your classroom?

Moments of struggle are crucial as they're where learning takes root. Teach students to work through their thinking first before turning to A.I. in order to interact with it more thoughtfully.

How can you find new poetry to inspire? Try looking at picture books, songs, local poets, and to nature.

The Active View of Reading serves as a guide for literacy instruction, emphasizing the importance of an engaged, strategic, and active approach to reading.

Are you interested in hearing about a simple high-impact strategy to build connections with your students?

What is the writing workshop model? How do we confer alongside ChatGPT in the writing classroom.

Conversations with community members give students context for real world problems and solutions.

Right now, we're recognizing an educational failure narrative in American culture. Teachers are often posited as heroes, but that can set people up for failure.

The writing process is a structured series of steps all writers use to develop their work. Let’s explore the six different stages of writing.

What are the ethics of using AI in the classroom? Redefine plagiarism, acknowledge the hallucination problem, and try it before you deny it.

What is poetry? The staff of music, a tiny stone and acorn in a child's pocket, or the wind's howl. Inspired by Carl Sagan's Definitions of Poetry.