As many readers of this blog know, Colleen Driggs, Erica Woolway and I are finishing the manuscript of our forthcoming book on literacy, Reading Reconsidered. This morning, in fact, I was editing the introduction to a chapter called “Writing for Reading,” a discussion of the synergies between reading and writing and how to unlock more of…
Thanks to everyone who came to our Ratio workshop in Albany yesterday. As always we were honored to work with you and learned a lot. And as always we didn’t have time to talk about everything you might want to talk about. We promised you a link to share the idea of Question Delegation, which I…
Earlier this month I blogged about the Art of the Consequence, sharing ideas for how to give consequences so they actually improved your classroom culture—as opposed to, say, setting a student off and making him or her even more difficult—and just maybe helped students to learn and reflect and grow. As part of the post I…