3 Tips for Teaching Reading Across the Day By Jen Seravallo Because reading is so critically important, the job of teaching students how to read well belongs to all teachers. – Jennifer Serravallo, Teaching Reading Across the Day View every lesson as an opportunity to build vocabulary and
In this episode of the Leaders Coaching Leaders podcast, Even More Learning Made Visible, host Peter Dewitt engages in a meaningful conversation with Professor Emeritus John Hattie from the University of Melbourne, Australia about his newest book, Visible Learning: The Sequel. An eagerly anticipated follow-up
Learn to Understand and Address the Causes of Student Disengagement By Lee Ann Jung When asking teachers about some of the most challenging parts of their job, they often want to know ways they can motivate their students or how to address challenging behaviors. They want students
Corwin author and teacher leader Barry Gilmore passed away in 2019 at the age of 50, while he was working on his latest passion project, a new book. His editor and co-author powered through their grief to honor his legacy and complete the project. That
Skilled Teachers Create Connections and a Shared Purpose By Dustin Bindreiff After years of observing hundreds of classrooms, I came to understand that skilled teachers are like symphony conductors. With grace and mastery, these teachers lead instruction, manage transitions, and provide feedback to the class in a
Scaffolding is an ongoing process of providing front-end, distributed, and back-end scaffolds. Along with peer scaffolding, these are part of our larger model of scaffolding. Source: How Scaffolding Works, Corwin. In this Corwin Connect blog, we take a quick look at back-end scaffolds but read on to
The escalating problems facing our nation’s schools have taken their toll on educators. Many educators feel devalued, under supported, and frustrated over the factors that get in the way of doing what we were hired to do. The political minefield of mandated policies and procedures
In an earlier Corwin Connect post, we took on the challenge of providing just-right supports for learners to provide the access and opportunity to the highest level of learning for all our students. As a reminder, we shared our model for educational scaffolding that brought
My favorite question for many years has been: “What is the problem for which _________ is the solution?” So what is the problem for which my new planner, Teaching Better Day by Day: A Planner to Support Your Instruction, Well-Being, and Professional Learning, is the
Spend a bit of time with young children and you’ll almost certainly hear questions like this: Why? Why not? How come? They are curious about the world around them. Their questions help them to locate a logic in what they experience and see. That’s verbal