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I believe a classroom library is the heartbeat of a teacher's environment.  It is the window into their own personality, and it reflects the importance of literacy in the classroom.  I believe every teacher, no matter the subject taught, should ...

You know when you enjoy a book so much you begin to slow down towards the end just to make the sweetness last?  Well, Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book is one of those.  NG writes with a rhythm in his ...

I learned a version of this activity from Erick Gordon this summer at the UCI institute. Basically, it's a get-to-know activity where the students get to learn a little about me and then learn a little about each other. ...

  I wanted to share an activity I did the day before testing this year. I had the students do a Quickwrite into their Writer's Journals.  The sentence stem began as follows: "I am going to kick the CST's butt.  I am ...