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reThink ELA Interview with Scott Bayer https://www.rethinkela.com/2018/02/rethink-ela-005-interview-with-scott-bayer/

Just as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley invented the modern "mad scientist,' so does Lita Judge invent a new genre to tell Mary's story...a graphic biography in verse. Judge creates the words and the black-and-white watercolor illustrations …

Note: This article is mostly copied from the review I wrote immediately after reading BANG, several weeks ago...this, frankly, has the strength of my visceral response. When I sit in my chair, in ugly-tears, way past …

What would you think if your principal said, "We're doing away with report cards, but you still have to tell your students and their parents how they're doing in class." How would you measure a …

It's so easy to do things as they've always been done. Why fix what's isn't broken, right? But what if that tried-and-true way of doing things doesn't work in your classroom or for your kids?  Today's …

What Going Gradeless Taught Me About Doing the “Actual Work” by @AaronSBlackwel1 https://www.rethinkela.com/2018/01/what-going-gradeless-taught-me-about-doing-the-actual-work/

UPDATED: Essays Every High School Student Should Read now includes "Letter from a Vietnamese to an Iraqi Refugee" by @andrewglam https://www.rethinkela.com/2016/12/essays-every-high-school-student-should-read/

Click here to listen to the story behind the first podcast! https://www.rethinkela.com/2018/01/rethink-ela-001-our-vision-and-mission/