Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Picture books are colorful, vibrant, and creative…so let’s not ditch them after chapter books come along! As a parent I have re-discovered my love of some classic picture books, but mostly, I am discovering a vast new world of modern children’s literature. Many […]
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What Every Teacher Should Know About the Science of Reading
This is Part 1 of a series on effective literacy instruction Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! 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 […]
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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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Seven Women Who Shaped My Teaching
A Teacher’s Celebration of Women’s History Month Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! March is Women’s History Month. My spouse recently asked me, as we were talking about Women’s History Month, which women had most influenced my life. When I told him my biggest influences […]
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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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Word Games Like Wordle and Mywordle Help Make Language More Accessible for Students
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Choosing your words sensibly… Wordle is an online word game and, over the past month, has taken the internet by storm. Josh Wardle developed the game in response to his companion’s affection for word games. Now, just a few […]
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In Protest – Picture Books to Read with Your Students before Someone Tries to Ban Them
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! By Julie Letofsky A Tennessee school board bans Maus, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust because of two curses and “its depiction of violence and suicide.” A Texas woman wants to ban a Michelle Obama biography from school […]
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Maus: The Text For Such a Time as This
I read Maus for the first time nearly 20 years ago. It was required reading for my adolescent literature class, one of the many English classes I took for my undergraduate education program. My professor hoped that we would value using a graphic novel in the English classroom. So I flew through Volume 1 and […]