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Your Students Deserve a Diverse Classroom Library. Here’s How to Set It Up.

Diverse Classroom Library: Our classroom libraries are in trouble. Just as more teachers are learning that their libraries need books that reflect their student populations, they also have to fight policies at the district and state levels that ban many of these same books from their libraries. Florida, for example, is banning certain materials in classroom libraries […]

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Five Picture Books Students Will Love for Celebrating International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! I remember sending my son to his first day of school with his new glasses. My anxiety was high, worrying about what the other students would say to him and how their comments would make him feel. Would they […]

Posted inClassroom Management, Elementary School, High School, Instruction & Curriculum, Instructional Coach Files, Instructional Strategies, Literacy, Mathematics, Middle School, Pedagogy

They’re Not Lazy: A Closer Look at Students Who Refuse to Try

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! As teachers, we’ve all seen it before. You’ve taught a lesson, modeled the practice together, and then all the students get started. Or, at least most of them do. Sitting there quietly, hoping not to get noticed, is a […]

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Mythical, Fictional, Make-Believe…as Long as They Ain’t Black

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! As a Black teacher who advocates for the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion, the heated debate about a Black Mermaid has piqued my interest on many levels. I recently discussed the issue with members of my African American Student Union […]