September 6, 2015 1 Feeding the Reading Frenzy Our school has a strong reading culture,but in recent years our secondary students were [...]
February 9, 2015 2 Reading for a Cause: the TCFL Readathon One Tuesday morning, our Parent Support Group suggested we host a readathon at school. Because the word [...]
November 24, 2014 0 Revolution I just finished reading Deborah Wiles’ captivating historical fiction novel, Revolution, and it is [...]
November 7, 2014 0 Character Dress Up Day and the Culture of Reading Teachers greeting students Every year, near the end of October, we harness the creative fun of Halloween [...]
October 22, 2014 2 How We Teach Writing At The Community for Learning, we teach writing through a writing workshop model (see the work of Nancie [...]
October 14, 2014 12 How We Teach Reading Several parents have asked me to write about the philosophy we use at TCFL to teach reading. Parents can see [...]
August 17, 2014 2 Giving up Control 7th Grade reading club This summer I had a huge “aha” moment about teaching. I’ve always [...]
August 5, 2014 0 Review: The Book Whisperer The old saying that “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear” rings true over and over [...]
March 4, 2014 9 Giving Up Grades – Part 2: An Example Last Monday, Ylonka – our 7th grade Spanish Language Arts (Lenguaje) teacher – came into my [...]
February 25, 2014 2 Giving Up Grades A few weeks ago in the secondary Language Arts department we were struggling with our students’ lack of [...]