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May 16, 2025: Trusting Students
This week’s newsletter is about trusting students and letting go of unrealistic expectations.
May 9, 2025: Brain-Based Learning
This week’s newsletter is about connecting with students so they can be positioned to learn.
May 2, 2025: Keeping Steady (Part 2)
This week’s newsletter is the second installment about keeping steady with wise instructional practices.
April 25, 2025: Keeping Steady (Part 1)
This week’s newsletter is about keeping steady with wise instructional practices.
April 18, 2025: Differentiation
This week’s newsletter is about differentiating with precision.
April 11, 2025: Conversation in Small Groups
This week’s newsletter is about lifting the level of small group conversations.
April 4, 2025: Helping Students Take Charge of Their Learning
This week’s newsletter is about helping students take charge of their own learning.
March 21, 2025: Give Space and Time for Learning
This week’s newsletter is about giving space and time for learning.
March 14, 2025: Let’s Learn!
This week’s newsletter is about literacy in all subjects.
March 6, 2025: Writing Process Tips
This week’s newsletter is about the writing process.
February 28, 2025: Finding Possibilities with Mentors
This week’s newsletter is about mentor texts.
February 21, 2025: Let Hope Stick
This week’s newsletter is about letting hope stick.
February 14, 2025: Spark Reading Response
This week’s newsletter is about sparking reading response.
February 7, 2025: Boost Talk = Boost Learning
This week’s newsletter is about boosting talk in your classroom.
January 31, 2025: Meaning Matters
This week’s newsletter is about making meaning with our learning.
January 24, 2025: Ways to Show Learning
This week’s newsletter is about assessing student learning.
January 17, 2025: More Engaged Students
This week’s newsletter is about engagement.
December 20, 2024: Graphic Novels and Novels in Verse
This week’s newsletter is about graphic novels and novels in verse.
December 13, 2024: Literacy in All Subjects
This week’s newsletter is about literacy in all subjects..
December 6, 2024: Gratitude
This week’s newsletter is about the importance of gratitude.
November 22, 2024: Vulnerability
This week’s newsletter is about fostering strong connections.
November 15, 2024: Supporting Learners
This week’s newsletter is about supporting learners.
November 8, 2024: Growing Writers
This week’s newsletter is about growing writers.
November 1, 2024: A Community of Secondary Readers
This week’s newsletter is about nourishing a community of secondary readers.
October 25, 2024: Talking Politics?
This week’s newsletter is about talking politics with students.
October 18, 2024: Learning to Collaborate
This week’s newsletter is about helping students learn to share ideas.
October 11, 2024: A Community of Readers
This week’s newsletter is about building a reading community.
October 4, 2024: A Love of Books
This week’s newsletter is about the power of learning to love books.
September 27, 2024: No Struggle, No Story
This week’s newsletter is about planning narratives.
September 20, 2024: Tough Ones
This week’s newsletter is about small connections that make a big difference.
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