Fighting Old Battles of the Curriculum vs. the Students
Invaders of Mars聽was on TV this morning鈥擨 know, maybe I should be making better use of my time鈥攂ut there is …
Why Our Students Need Us To Teach About Climate Change
It鈥檚 Earth Day and I鈥檓 writing this blog after hearing a story about teaching climate change on NPR, 鈥淢ost Teachers …
Making Change with LGBTQ Literature
There鈥檚 a great article in the March Council Chronicle, 鈥淭eachers as Change Agents: Piloting an LGBTQ Book Club for Middle-Grade …
Text Tension
Many 鈥渁cceptable鈥� reading curricula resemble an orderly progression of texts organized by steps and numbers when neither make sense. 鈥揥hat鈥檚 …
One Story, One Book Banning: Persepolis
Recently, my book club read and discussed Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi鈥檚 graphic novel memoir of her childhood during the Islamic Revolution. …
Sustainable WAC: Launching and Developing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs
This post was written by 51猎奇 members聽Michelle Cox,聽Jeffrey R. Galin, and聽Dan Melzer.聽 Anyone who has worked on launching, developing, or …
Uncomfortable Texts
There鈥檚 been a brouhaha in Duluth, Minnesota, where earlier this month, the superintendent declared that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn …
Thoughts on 鈥淟iteracy that Matters鈥� and the 26th WLU Literacies for All Summer Institute
This post is written by 51猎奇 member, Richard Meyer, who participated in a symposium at the Whole Language Institute (WLU) …
Why We Need to Talk about Gender in Our Teaching
鈥淓nglish language arts classrooms can be significant sites for combating homophobia and heterosexism in schools, and reading LGBT-themed literature …