COMING SOON: In Heart at the Center, Mike Tinoco invites secondary educators to reimagine classrooms as spaces to prioritize wellness, embrace challenges with compassion, and help students flourish holistically. Learn to lead with nonviolence pedagogy with Heart at the Center.

Having conversations about how to have conversations about race with students of ALL ages. Jennifer Orr and Matthew R. Kay at #ascd24

Don't miss this opportunity to attend a workshop with Dawnavyn M. James ! Our book study will be held on May 4th from 10-12. You can pick up her book, Beyond February and get excited! More information and registration is available at slawnywebsite.org/beyond-februar…

Get excited for our upcoming Equity and Social Justice in Education virtual panel! If you have questions to ask Shawna Coppola. M.Ed., Reading 🍉🇵🇸 Dr. Noreen Naseem Rodríguez Manya Whitaker Alex Shevrin Venet Jenna Chandler-Ward, head to our Instagram Story (@RoutledgeEOE) to share them!

#MTBOS #miched
ICYMI Kassia Wedekind joined John Golden and me on Teaching Like Ted Lasso to talk about planning. She offers some specific ideas about ways to plan for small group engagement and whole group discourse. shows.acast.com/62f3ebde7f77c4…

Peter Johnston discusses his books Engaging Literate Minds, Choice Words, and the upcoming SECOND EDITION of Choice Words! #ChoiceWords #ChoiceWords 2 #StenhousePub

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
Kassia Wedekind joins #Teaching Like #TedLasso to discuss planning for small group engagement and whole class discussions.

shows.acast.com/62f3ebde7f77c4…

Went into my office to clean off my desk for the week and found a new book proposal waiting for me. ACCEPTED.

TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Literacy experts and educators LB (she, her, hers) & Franki Sibberson wrote a book with a side of FREE PD!
Register: bookelicious.com/events/

Help! What is your go to tool for making student podcasts? #podcasting #iste #teacher

Matthew Kay “Not Light, But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom, and Jennifer Orr, Kay's co-author “We're Gonna Keep On Talking: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Elementary Classroom.” Listen 🎙️to Jennifer Gonzalez

✍️ Empower readers & writers!
📚 Curate a quality class library!
💪 Develop student agency!

Literacy experts and educators LB (she, her, hers) & Franki Sibberson wrote a book with a side of FREE PD!
Register: bookelicious.com/events/
'...one of the most...brilliant books I have ever read.'

Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth by providing your students with a rich variety of stories and perspectives from Black history. Dawnavyn M. James’s book paves the way for elementary classrooms that research, explore, and celebrate Black history in February and beyond.
#BeyondFebruary

Educator Dawnavyn M. James wants to offer Ss 'a richer and more complete portrait of Blackness across all aspects of their educational experience.'

More on her vision here: teacher2teacher.education/2024/02/21/tea…

If we are to honor all families and their ways of being, we must design curricular activities with collective inclusivity in mind. Nawal Qarooni | NQC Literacy | @nqarooni on IG Stenhouse Publishers

When family tree projects frustrate students, community maps are an inclusive alternative
kqed.org/mindshift/6308…

Congratulations to Danny Bernard Martin, a professor in curriculum and instruction, on his selection as a 2024 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association! Read the full press release here: go.uic.edu/DannyMartinAER…

“Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding.”

This seems so obvious but kids need to read whole length books, and have whole books read to them, with support, regularly.

By involving language that students use every day to learn new concepts in the classroom, “I position them as the experts in that language,” says The Madwoman in the Classroom. Matthew R. Kay

Learning from student language — instead of prohibiting it
kqed.org/mindshift/6310…

Do you know any elementary educators interested in being in community with other educators teaching Black history? Share this book club opportunity with them! Our first meeting is next Saturday!

buffalo.zoom.us/meeting/regist…