From Kim and Jeff

Dear Students,

Valentine’s Day is all about love, and what shows love in the elementary classroom more than simple acts of kindness? This Valentine’s Day incorporate teaching about kindness into your classroom with these simple ideas.

If you are a middle or high school English teacher and you’ve never taught sentence composing, stop what you are doing and read this post. Sentence composing is that good.

Trying something new in the classroom is daunting. We tend to teach the way that we were taught. Often this means whole-group instruction. The Gradual Release may feel like the safer route, but is the safer route what students need?