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I checked out Teachers Organizing for Change and downloaded one chapter. After just a quick scan, I'm really intrigued. I was at UCDavis yesterday at the School of Education's 3rd annual Academic Literacy Summit. During the reflection/debriefing at…
on Saturday
Thanks so much for this line of thinking, Katie. I remember reading Shirley Brice Heath's Ways with Words, in which she recounts an ethnographic study of the intersections of race, class and language among groups of students in a town in the America…
on Saturday
Katie added 2 blog posts
on Thursday
Thanks for posting about this site. Our schools block YouTube, but allow TeacherTube, so we get access to educational videos. If you want to use appropriate YouTube videos in your class and CANNOT find them on TeacherTube, I have another suggestion…
January 29
Alejandra Herrera Ledesma added a blog post
YouTube. Wait, I mean TeacherTube. I'd never heard or seen this before. As I was surfing the net for teacher sites that might help me create websites for my students, I came across this website, teachertube.com "Hmm," I thought, "and what is this?"…
January 29
Genevieve Beltran added a blog post
This week, my students and I have been busy working on arranging the final entries to the writing anthology that my friend Fred, a writer of children’s books by night and a manager at a book printing company by day, generously offered to have profes…
January 22
Here's a little update on my classroom: What was I thinking to put them in groups of four?!?!? I should've written that all in caps, because I feel like yelling it. Except, really not. I still like grouping them for the same reasons I mentioned earl…
January 16
Paul Oh added a blog post
Adlit.org has made available at its website a four-part video series that focuses on ELL issues. The videos feature Kathleen Leos, Deborah Santiago, and Susan Lafond in a discussion on demographic trends, instructional strategies, school-family part…
January 14
Steph Paterson added a discussion to the group Readings
A recent article from Rethinking Schools: http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/24_02/24_02_freedom.shtml "I Thought This U.S. Place Was Supposed To Be About Freedom": Young Latinas Engage in Mathematics and Social Change to Save Their School by…
January 14
Thanks for the update, Lynn! Please let us know what kind of reception you get from parents and guardians, and ultimately whether you and they find the booklet useful.
January 13
I just received 200 copies of this booklet, half in Spanish, the rest in English. I think it took almost a month to receive it (Long enough that I'd forgotten I'd ordered it!) I like the format. It is about 5x8" and arranged in small blocks of text…
January 12
I decided (with the help of my principal who thought it would be too much disruption) not to change the classes. I've put the desks in groups of four, which the kids like, and am approaching the new format as a new skill they must learn. I like it b…
January 10
Steph Paterson added a discussion to the group Readings
I recently ordered this book... http://store.tcpress.com/0807747327.shtml From the TC Record: "I am passionate about the study of immigrant students and their success in schools in North America, so Immigrant Students and Literacy, written by Ger…
January 9
Articles, book chapters, literature, and bibliographies about teaching ELLs.
January 9
Nancy K. Davis is now a member of Know ELLs
January 4
Jose, At the NWP Site Leaders' Ning, I found another argument in FAVOR of teachers/school districts using social networks, like Ning: it's a very short slide presentation. The main idea? It helps innovators get support from their social network pee…
January 3

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Katie

Teachers Organizing for Change

Since I started teaching in Title I schools three and a half years ago, I've been reflecting, talking, reading, researching about ways for Title I schools to more effectively engage families and communities in the education of their students. I've experimented with ways that could be more inclusive than traditional ways that make us think "PTA" or "parent involvement." I've struggled with overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers with parents, with working around work and day care schedules of… Continue

Posted by Katie on February 6, 2010 at 5:45am — 1 Comment

Katie

How well do we KnowELLs' families?

As I've taught I've become more and more interested in the importance of families' involvement in the development and progress of students. When I taught in schools, both public and private, that served students from middle to high socioeconomic backgrounds, parents made sure that I got to know them, invited me into their homes, set up conferences and sent emails. They had obviously had positive educational experiences themselves and wanted to support their students in a way that guaranteed that… Continue

Posted by Katie on February 3, 2010 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

Alejandra Herrera Ledesma

What -Tube?

YouTube. Wait, I mean TeacherTube. I'd never heard or seen this before. As I was surfing the net for teacher sites that might help me create websites for my students, I came across this website, teachertube.com
"Hmm," I thought, "and what is this?" So I click on it, and hokey smokes! It's YouTube for teachers! How cool is this? So of course, instead of working on my websites, here… Continue

Posted by Alejandra Herrera Ledesma on January 29, 2010 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

Genevieve Beltran

Book Buddies

This week, my students and I have been busy working on arranging the final entries to the writing anthology that my friend Fred, a writer of children’s books by night and a manager at a book printing company by day, generously offered to have professionally bound by his company. Graced with the opportunity to have 120 free copies of a hardcover book in which I could publish my third grade students’ writing, I made a rookie mistake. I told my friends.

Telling a fellow Great Valley Writing Projec… Continue

Posted by Genevieve Beltran on January 22, 2010 at 7:00pm

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