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Ways to Study the Teaching of Writing with Your Colleagues: PD Ideas for Inside & Outside the Classroom K-8

On this edition of Facebook Live, we're talking with Kate Roberts on her newest book, A Novel Approach. Listen in as we learn about how this book came to be.

The classroom of your dreams starts with one big idea. Kids First from Day One shares how to put your deepest teaching beliefs into action. Listen in!

Whether you are a teacher, student, parent, sibling, or friend, embarrassment is something we all experience.

Here, Kate Roberts shows you just what is in store for you inside her new book, A Novel Approach

Here, Jen has created a handy downloadable chart to illustrate the connections between goals in The Reading Strategies Book and The Writing Strategies Book.

In project-based writing, students manage their writing project with systemized external supports like pitches, proposals, project goals, and schedules.

The wait is over — Heinemann's Spring 2018 Catalog is here! Explore 128 pages packed full with resources from some of your favorite authors.

I have a confession: I love to cut. Almost nothing pleases me more than to read through a manuscript and find entire chapters that can be placed under the guillotine

The idea that students should be “college and career ready” when they leave high school has become a major focus in education, but much of this conversation has been on reading readiness.  What about writing readiness?

Families drop their children off at school each day hoping that we will make their children’s lives greater than their own. Every guardian wants this.

By introducing a new definition of text, usher out the dreaded five-paragraph essay and introduce something entirely different that students will want to write.

How do we help children work through dysregulated moments? What strategies can we use to support children in these instances?

This month, our posts aim to position ourselves as educators who understand the evolving definition of literacy, and use this knowledge to teach our students to be both critical consumers and creative contributors through text and media.

Many students are already social media experts. Tapping into their knowledge to channel them to try new books and to reflect on their work can be powerful.

it’s a sad but common belief among teachers and students that math manipulatives are a crutch to be outgrown and an intervention to be used only when necessary.

If you’re tired of boring literary analysis assignments, Beyond Literary Analysis, show how students can write authentic arguments based on their own interests.

Out of the dark tunnel of boring literary analysis assignments, they lead you into a world where students learn to write fresh, compelling, authentic arguments based on their own unique interests.