This is Part 1 of a series on effective literacy instruction My fondest memories of teaching first grade were watching my students grow as readers and feeling pure joy when they accomplished their reading goals. Every September you are given the task of instructing nonreaders. By June, they leave you as skilled readers. Some leave […]
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Critical Race Theory Haters Find a New Target: Social Emotional Learning
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! In growing numbers, parents and political groups have a lot to say about education. Certain acronyms are drawing especially intense criticism. CRT, SEL, and DEI have inspired ravenous debate. The absurd assertion that educators are teaching white children to […]
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The Dangerous Suppression of “Don’t Say Gay”
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! There is a lot of news lately about Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. But it isn’t the only one. In Indiana, there is a bill that would ban any discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in classrooms. Another […]
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I’m an Ohio Educator Against HB 327
Ohio House Bill 327 Would Outlaw “Divisive” Concepts in Schools, Shred the Community Fabric Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! When my son was in the first grade, he came home from school and said, “I hate myself.” When I asked why, he said it […]
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How to Use TikTok in the Science Classroom
“Ooh, Ms. Lane, I saw this TikTok Video that…” One of my students excitedly said to me after class one day. My first thought was to listen but not take the topic seriously. I mean, after all, it was TikTok – a social media platform very effective at making students social, but not in an […]
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Finally An Afrofuturist Textbook!
An Interview With the Editor of Conjuring Worlds Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Afrofuturism is highly-desired, but frequently a missing puzzle piece in many English Language Arts curriculums. B. Sharise Moore, a veteran educator and author of Dr. Marvellus Djinn’s Odd Scholars, hopes to change […]
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History Matters in Schools. Here’s How I Taught it in my English/Language Arts Classroom
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Early in my teaching career, I attended a challenging and eye-opening conference on Holocaust education hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I had taught Holocaust literature since the beginning of my career, anchoring most of my Holocaust units in […]
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Don’t Expect Your Students to Attend Your Funeral
Don’t expect your students to attend your funeral.