My list of 300 Recommended Books for Junior High Students may have been erroneously removed from Scribd (see my article about this here, and the ars technica article here), but it’s not forgotten. Today...
Poetry isn’t dead, it’s just been beaten into submission. That seems to be the fear of poet Billy Collins in his poem “Introduction to Poetry.” To breathe life into poetry, Collins and the Library...
Talk about “old school,” here’s a teacher training video from 1947 that gives pointers on how to manage a classroom. It’s fairly humorous, but I think it can also lead to valuable discussion. Try...
In their book Moving Forward With Literature Circles, Day, Spiegel, McLellan and Brown give a simple, effective way to help students learn how to choose their own books to read. They write that we...
Inspiration / Music / Teaching
85 Positive Songs for Teachers to Use in the Classroom
August 14, 2007
