by admin | May 19, 2016 | Literacy Assessments
‘Hamilton’ creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, spoke with 40 Bronx Theatre High School students about sacrificing for your life’s work, artistic inspiration, and his cast’s joy about getting to perform the mega-hit for 20,000 New York City public-school students who were...
by admin | Apr 7, 2016 | Literacy Assessments
The International Literacy Association offers a number of resources to help teachers increase their students’ reading comprehension. This blog about how to craft intentional scaffolds for close reading assignments offers great insights into this topic.
by admin | Mar 16, 2016 | Leadership, Literacy Assessments
Read about — and listen to— the ways Acting Education Secretary John B. King Jr. envisions how ESSA could use biliteracy to help broaden the definition of a well-rounded education.
by admin | Sep 24, 2015 | Literacy Assessments
This is a re-post of Victoria Smith’s popular “From Nancy Drew to Cereal Boxes: It’s All Worth Reading” originally posted May 21, 2015 I remember clearly the day my grandmother handed me The Secret of the Old Clock, the first in the Nancy Drew series. I was...
by admin | Sep 8, 2015 | Leadership, Literacy Assessments
International Literacy Day 2015 is being celebrated all around the world today. UNESCO designated September 8th for this vital day, first observed in 1966. The theme for 2015 is “Literacy and Sustainable Societies” and explores how literacy reinforces...
by admin | Aug 20, 2015 | Leadership, Literacy Assessments
The recent International Literacy Association (ILA) 2015 one-day research institute gave me a valuable opportunity to hear several leading researchers describe cutting-edge issues in literacy and to interact with fellow literacy professionals in small discussions. The...
