Management… Simplify for Sophistication 10/14/202407/12/2025 Dear Colleague, As a recent or veteran academician, you have been hired to teach students to think and act based on their increased understanding of your content area. You will…
Assessments/Rubrics… CONCURRENT Teaching, Learning and Assessments 01/24/2024 Black History Month: Teach, Learn, and Assess Concurrently In whatever subject area you teach, there are men and women of African American heritage who have utilized knowledge from your content…
Methods… Mara Lee Grayson, Cal State University, Dominguez Hill, California 12/02/2023 Reading Satirical Scholarship to Encourage Students’ Agency and Confidence I am an associate professor of English, specializing in composition and rhetoric and teacher education, at California State University, Dominguez Hills,…
Assessments/Rubrics… EMPOWERING LEARNERS – Contributors 10/24/202312/07/2023 We know the value of collaboration, so despite each of our 40-plus years of teaching experience, Susan Steffel and I invited and received contributions to the content of our new…
Management… Seeing is Believing 09/11/202309/11/2023 Sometimes, when students SEE how essays work, they can write their own with more confidence and competence. One thing that has worked for me is using colors, metaphors, and formulae.…
Diversity/Inclusion… Readings: Responding Deeply 02/15/202201/31/2022 Having a range of prompts on hand encourages students to consider a wider range of reasons what they read speaks to or for them. Consider adapted the Nine Yardsticks of…
Diversity/Inclusion… Balance: Personal and Professional 12/15/202112/07/2021 Think of the school year in terms of a course to be run. Visualize long-distance runners. In order to sustain the energy to make it to the goal, most begin…
Other Teachers' Resources… Writing Teaches Writing 09/28/202109/28/2021 Practice, Practice, Practice Is Important We are pleased to share this blog post by Peter Hessler who interviewed John McPhee on the art of nonfiction. As college classroom teachers, we…
Diversity/Inclusion… POETRY Notebook – Product and Performance 04/04/202103/31/2021 Poetry Notebook Looking for a way to engage students to create a POETRY-Notebook that showcases their learning about poetry and other English Language Arts skills and completing a product/performance assignment that…
Diversity/Inclusion… POETRY-African American History Month Project 02/18/202102/18/2021 Celebrate Cultures February is a great time to incorporate an oral language component into your lessons and invite students to memorize and recite a poem by an African American poet. …