We know that the amount of time children spend reading has a huge impact. Reading stamina helps support vocabulary development,...

Much of the joy in our classroom experiences lives in seeing the excitement on students’ faces as they share their ideas and their lives...

Along with all of the challenges of social distancing, I found one unexpected and exciting benefit: the appearance of new, virtual...

As a consultant, my daily work life consists of learning with teachers and being a side-by-side thinking partner. We study, experiment,...

Brene Brown explains “Without feedback there can be no transformative change. When we don’t talk to the people we’re leading about their...

Distance learning is uncharted territory for many of us and can leave us feeling lost and tempted to plan out routes that would never...

Reading. The enjoyment of reading is not about finding the main idea or answering questions about the details in the text. It’s about...

In one of my favorite Katrina Kenison books The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother’s Memoir, she muses, “the good life is always the life...

Before the Pandemic Before the pandemic spread throughout the tristate area, school lockers slammed, navy uniforms covered the hallways,...

My long time friend Kerrie Larosa is a parent coach who helps families in many aspects of parenting. We teamed up a few years ago to...

Each day, I am in awe of the generosity, support, and love that educators, authors, librarians, and good people from all corners of our...

Craving low-prep, playful, and inherently flexible ways to continue learning at home? Word exploring may be your answer! Investigating...

Writing is a personalized and vulnerable act. Without a doubt, it takes bravery and courage to put words on paper that will be shared...

While doing a bit of professional reading as a new second grade teacher, I came across something called a craft study. My grade level...

Katie Egan Cunningham was one of the first people to post sample home schedules to help us maintain some semblance of structure and...

Just like many of you, I have been scrambling over the last weeks and trying to come up with meaningful at-home learning experiences for...

"What made you happy today?” “What do you want to learn?” “Who will you reach out and connect with?” “What do you want out of today?”...

How can we get through this? As a licensed clinical social worker and a parent coach I am receiving a lot of questions about what to do,...

Fantasy, sci-fi, dystopian, memoir, realistic fiction, graphic novels, comic strips, cookbooks…. the types of texts are endless! During...

I trust we all love Ferris Bueller and remember the “life moves pretty fast” advice? Well, there’s no doubt that right now, life is...