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Conundrum

Either our district bosses and the administrators in our buildings want us to get creative and imaginative in our instruction, using all sorts of out-of-the-box strategies, or they want us to cover their curricular demands,

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Writing in NT vs. T

Alisa Shapiro-Rosenberg has been doing a lot of work with non-targeted instruction this year. She is in a unique position to comment on the topic because she teaches both high and low cognate languages, Spanish

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Novels

Q Do you read the novels with the Invisibles program? A. The novels are great additions to any CI program. My problem has been that many teachers introduce them too early, before half the kids

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Tech Tool

From Alisa today: I know I’m the least likely person to share a tech tool but a few years back I saw something on Scholastic.com where you could play a virtual slot machine and get

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