Word Study: A New Approach to Teaching Spelling

One of the truths we know about education is that it…

Literacy through Photography

By: Koehler Morrissey

“You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax. All you need is a book.” — Dr. Seuss

Play to Learn

“Okay, I’ll be the mommy and you be the big sister,” Ella says to me after we read a…

Integrating Pop Culture & Literacy

“When children are not taught to become critically aware of media-produced popular culture texts, their thinking about such texts goes unchallenged.” –Donna Alvermann & Shelly Hong Xu

Should Cell Phones be Used in our Classrooms?

Cell phones can often times be considered a distraction in the classroom, but I believe that the technology we have today allows for us to find ways to incorporate cell phones into our curriculums so that they can actually aide our students instead…

Pop Culture in the Classroom

By Richard Dougherty

Newcomer Students: New Culture, New Language, New Life.

By Meg Owens

Class, put those phones away…but wait!

By Eric Mackowiak, October 2014

Image vs. Can’t we all just get along?

By: Katy Johnson — November 2014