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Or How Making Learning Matter Increased Student Engagement and Deepened Learning

Acclaimed researcher Richard Allington has shown that, like anything else that requires practice, kids become better readers by reading. He recommends, therefore, that whole-class texts be taught only 20–30 percent of the time, and that as much time as possible be given over to independent reading.

Author Sonja Cherry-Paul hated having glasses in the 5th grade until this supportive teacher said something to change her. #Education #Teachers #TeacherApprecationWeek #NationalTeachersDay #DedicatedtoTeachers

Author Bob Probst said his influential teacher taught him to always look at the questions. Bob has carried that with him today. #Education #Teachers #TeacherApprecationWeek #NationalTeachersDay #DedicatedtoTeachers See the full video and the rest of our series on the Heinemann blog (link in the bio). #noticeandnote #readingnonfiction

Author Andrea Honigsfeld begged her parents to put her in english class so she could learn English, not just Russian. This set off a chain of beautiful events. #Education #Teachers #TeacherApprecationWeek #NationalTeachersDay #DedicatedtoTeachers #ESL #ELL See the whole video and our series on the Heinemann blog. Link in the bio!

Author Lindsey Moses credits her love of reading and her direction in life to teaching reading to her 5th grade teacher. #Education #Teachers #TeacherApprecationWeek #NationalTeachersDay #DedicatedtoTeachers

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It's Nonfiction November! Chat with Reading Nonfiction authors Kylene Beers and Bob Probst tonight at 8pm eastern on Twitter. #RdngNF

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"We want our students to take on challenges with zeal," write Kristi Mraz and Christine Hertz, coauthors of A Mindset for Learning. "We want our students to see themselves not as static test scores but as agents of change." A Mindset for Learning: Teaching the Traits of Joyful, Independent Growth draws on the work of Carol Dweck, Daniel Pink, ...

"...when my students could make a connection between the math classroom and their real lives, when every student was given a voice in the classroom, they thrived. The dreaded refrain of math students— “When are we ever going to use this?”—was heard less and less frequently in my classroom, and I was sold." - Nancy Butler Wolfhttp://www.heinemann.com/blog/modelingmath-nbw-917/

With classroom-tested tips from our Curricular Resources authors on how to improve your teaching of writing at any grade level, each Writing Masters installment will share author insights and practical suggestions on teaching writing in the classroom that you can use the very next day. This week in the Writing Master series, Laura Robb argues the key to ...

If you'll be teaching the new Units of Study for Teaching Reading, K-5, you'll want to start your year by gathering with colleagues at your grade level and participating together in a study group led by Lucy Calkins and her coauthors from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. In these 45- to 90-minute grade-level study groups, ...

"Kids are capable of math and are excited about mathematics when it’s presented in a way that makes a connection to their real lives."

This week in the Writing Masters series, we are sharing a selection from Nancie Atwell's classic resource Lessons That Change Writers that describes the importance of establishing an environment in which students always have ideas to write about. Nancie does this by creating multiple opportunities for students to gather their individual writing territories-the topics they ...

"Allison and Rebekah have updated this advice for our modern age..." - Troy Hicks on #WritingwithMentors