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Read about types of mentor texts and writing strategies.

Discover advice and resources to manage the unspoken expectations that are often placed on teachers.

In this introduction to Fighting Fake News, the authors explore fake news and where we find it, how it can affect us, and why it can be dangerous and problematic for today’s students.

Explore with Jim Burke the ways educators can prepare students for Common Core Assessments without undermining daily instruction. 

Learn about multiple community-building exercises you can use at the beginning of the year and throughout the year.

This resource shares how students can practice bouncing in and out of formal and informal language through text translations.

Explore with Gravity Goldberg, author of Mindsets and Moves, what deters independent readers and what teachers can do to better support their students.

Uncover from Jeff Wilhelm and Adam Fachler, authors of Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12, the EMPOWER Method, a dynamic instructional framework that will transform how you plan so you can transform how your students learn.

Shame-bound readers want someone to notice them. It’s true. But then what does a teacher do to help students? In this webinar, participants will learn about Gershen Kaufman’s seminal research on shame and how it can be applied to the reading classroom to build relationships, make vulnerability ok, and bring out every student’s aptitude -and appetite – for books.

Find out from Jim Burke, author of The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded (Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12), how you can use the standards, whether Common Core or state-specific, promote best ELA practices.