In Praise of Think-Pair-Share 13Jan2015 by Jennifer Gonzalez Celebrating Think-Pair-Share, the Little Strategy That Could, and sharing some best practices for making it work for you.
When We All Teach Text Structures, Everyone Wins 6Nov2014 by Jennifer Gonzalez Teachers of history, science, and other subjects are now expected to weave literacy instruction into their teaching of content. But how should they do that? What are the most effective ways to help students learn to read challenging content-area texts?
Your child has nightly reading homework. What should YOU be doing? 24Aug2014 by Carolyn Wilhelm Your child has been assigned to read every night for homework. As a parent or caregiver, what should you be doing to make sure this reading benefits the child the most?
Summer 2014 Book Study: Understanding by Design 23Jun2014 by Jennifer Gonzalez The first installment of our study of Wiggins & McTighe’s book Understanding by Design.
Join Our First Summer Book Study 2Jun2014 by Jennifer Gonzalez One will change the way you look at technology. The other will change the way you look at planning. Either way, your paradigms are about to get shifted. Big time.
Mind’s Eye: A Pre-Reading Strategy 29May2014 by Jennifer Gonzalez Some texts are just hard for students to get into. The Mind’s Eye strategy tackles that problem head on: It grabs students’ attention before they ever read a single word and creates a mystery that can only be solved by reading the text.
Why is my kid allowed to make spelling mistakes? 18Apr2014 by Jennifer Gonzalez “Last week, my son brought home a stack of papers from his first-grade class. Some of them had obvious spelling errors, but no one had marked them wrong. What’s the deal? Why don’t teachers seem to care about spelling anymore?”
Know Your Terms: Nonlinguistic Representation 12Mar2014 by Jennifer Gonzalez If you’ve ever heard a guy stop in the middle of an explanation and say, “Hold on, let me draw you a picture,” that dude is fixing to serve you a heaping plate of nonlinguistic representation.
The Trouble with “Amazing”: Giving Praise that Matters 25Jan2014 by Jennifer Gonzalez If you’re trying to motivate someone—a student, an employee, your child—calling them amazing won’t pump them up the way you hope it will. Not in any lasting way. What’s worse, it could have the opposite effect.
