Posts belonging to Category Books
May 30, 2013
One of a series on the real “cor,” or heart, of all good teaching. Children are at risk of unfulfilled memories. Memories are built from stories and life experiences recounted again and again. Today, in school, time for out-loud story-telling and “read-alouds” at any grade level is shrinking or disappearing. Fables and tall tales, for instance, are [...]
Categories: Books, Common Core State Standards, Education Reform, Teachers & Teaching |
Tags: Abiyoyo, Common "Cor" Standards, Common Core State Standards, E.B. White, John Henry, Katherine Patterson, Madeleine L'Engle, Over the Meadow, Pete Seeger | 
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May 14, 2013
One of a series on the real “cor,” or heart, of all good teaching. This “Standard of the Heart” is about creating the conditions for students to become self-motivated rather than just relying on your external expectations for how many sentences to write, how many problems to complete. (For a sense of what children are capable of [...]
Categories: Books, Common Core State Standards, Education Reform, Teachers & Teaching |
Tags: Common "Cor" Standards, Common Core State Standards, Deborah J. Leong, Elena Bodrova, Jennifer Jacobson, Lev Vygotsky, Tools of the Mind | 1 Comment »
April 22, 2013
One of a series on the real “cor,” or heart, of all good teaching. Parker J. Palmer’s most recent book, Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit, eloquently delineates five “habits of the heart”—a phrase first used by Alexis de Tocqueville—that are needed in our society today to [...]
Categories: Books, Common Core State Standards, Teachers & Teaching |
Tags: Common Core, habits of the heart, Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker Palmer, Time to Teach Time to Learn | Post a Comment »
April 17, 2013
If you are an elementary or middle school principal, teacher, or parent interested in increasing the amount of parent and/or volunteer participation in a classroom or school, I have a really excellent resource for you: Educating America: 101 Strategies for Adult Assistants in K-8 Classrooms by Paddy Eger, a clear expert on the matter. The [...]
Categories: Books, Parent Questions & Concerns, Teachers & Teaching |
Tags: Educating America, Paddy Eger, school volunteers | Post a Comment »
March 21, 2013
Teachers and school leaders who are just beginning to learn about the Responsive Classroom approach often ask me which book they should read first to get a good overview. It’s true there are an ever-growing number of wonderful books in the Responsive Classroom Library, at least thirty at last count! Margaret Berry Wilson’s latest book, [...]
Categories: Books, Managing Behavior, Parent Questions & Concerns, Social & Emotional Learning, The Responsive Classroom® approach, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: developmental teaching, Managing Behavior, Parent Questions & Concerns, social-emotional learning, Thinking Developmentally | 2 Comments »
March 12, 2013
Two books crossed paths on my reading list this past week and am I glad they did! Both make wonderful contributions to our understanding of growth and development and the ways our lives are shaped both by how we were parented and how we respond to and learn from that parenting—how we become who we [...]
Categories: Books, Parent Questions & Concerns, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: child development, Jim R. Rogers, parenting, Rainbow Rowell, young adult novels | Post a Comment »
December 10, 2012
Somewhere in the vicinity of 30 years ago, I sat on an imaginary front porch at a Lesley Kindergarten Conference Workshop with another conference participant as we visualized what we saw in our teaching futures and the future of education. My workshop partner’s name was Katie Johnson, author of Doing Words as well as More [...]
Categories: Books, Parent Questions & Concerns, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: children's vision skills, Katie Johnson, neuro-motor patterning, Red Flags for Primary Teachers | 3 Comments »
August 22, 2012
I urge teachers and parents to read this New York Times OpEd piece, “Raising the Ritalin Generation.” The author, Bronwen Hruska, in telling us the story of her family’s and, in particular, her son’s misadventures in the land of ADHD misdiagnosis, creates a cautionary tale for us all to heed. Hruska concludes that much of [...]
Categories: Books, Children's Positive Attributes, Importance of Play, Managing Behavior, Parent Questions & Concerns, Social & Emotional Learning, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: developmental changes, importance of play, Managing Behavior, parents questions & concerns, social-emotional development, Thinking Developmentally, whole child | 3 Comments »
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