words of advice literacy consultants

Last week I was interviewed by Christy Crawford, a technology teacher at Bronx Community Charter School and a Top Teaching Blogger at...

Many of us have heard about Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000 hour rule”, which indicates that to become an expert at something, one must put in...

Over the past couple of months my 4 year old has become increasingly demanding. Almost daily I've heard, “Do this” or “I need a drink."...

I’ve been a teacher, a staff developer at Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, a coach, a reading specialist and an independent...

“It’s magic,” a teacher I was working with recently declared after a reading conference we co-taught with one of her kindergarteners. ...

Seven months ago my second child was born (well we consider him our third child since our first is a vizla/lab mix that holds a prominent...

When I was in college Oprah Winfrey was doing a lot of television episodes about gratitude. I remember learning about the concept of a...

The teachers at my son’s nursery school just returned from the North American Reggio Emilia Alliance conference in Florida, and they are...