Tectonic Shifts, Turbulence, & Opportunities
Adam Banks on How CCCC Can Help Re-vision Higher Education NCTE Council Chronicle November 2013 For Adam Banks, 2014 CCCC chair, the conference is an opportunity to look hard at the future and figure out how to get there. The Convention, scheduled for March 19-22 in...
Reading Instruction That Meets Students Where They Are
Helping Students Learn to Enjoy and Succeed at Reading
For those who have mastered reading, it is like breathing: they don’t consciously think about how to do, they just do it. For others, though, reading may be anything but unconscious, and can be difficult, frustrating work.
Tip A Canoe And Concrete, Too
Proposed decades ago by a UI professor, an improbable idea still stays afloat Illinois Alumni magazine April 2013 The genius emanating from the University of Illinois fills many pages in the book of all things remarkable: the invention of the LED; the discovery of...
Mike Rose Believes in Second Chances
NCTE Council Chronicle March 2013 Mike Rose has a message for teachers working with struggling students: keep the faith, because your effort really does pay off far down the road. “You’ll be surprised how many of these students remember, ‘my teacher in 9th grade said...
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