Ben and group: My principal expects me to resign on Monday during a meeting he’s scheduled. Am I the first person to have been forced to resign after writing a story script about religious tolerance?

When a profession fails to keep up, and provides only the same old boring schlock, year after year, things like this happen: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/states-ditch-language-teach-kids-code_us_56b4b360e4b01d80b245e436?section=india

What if we write the story during the its creation and project it right then and there? When I do this, I can see the reading and writing gains piling up in the kids’ minds like snow

This second of the two suggested class sequences is for teachers who are writing the story in real time as it happens, not for those writing the story after it happens from notes given to them

Here’s a nice class sequence for a block class or two regular classes. Note that this first of two suggested class sequences for teachers who are not writing the story in real time as it

Here is the free write poster that jen and Angie and I were talking about. It is a major poster in my classroom and I insist that the kids follow its guidelines. FreeWriteRules

This is a beefed up repost of an article from last week. It got mixed in with a lot of other posts and may have been overlooked originally (the queue is jammed again). In my

From John Piazza: I was wondering if anyone on the list has conducted Socratic Seminars in their classes, and what their experience was, and whether they could share strategies, resources, etc. for doing it successfully

I got this great question from Joseph. Though simple, it is a very rich thing to ask about the CI questioning process: Hello Ben, I am in Israel training a young lady in TPRS for Hebrew.