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Pam Koutrakos
- Dec 6, 2019
Teaching Students How To Transfer Conventions Into Their Writing
“You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink.” Ah, yes, this proverb is so true when it comes to teaching, hoping,...


Dana Clark
- Nov 27, 2018
Classrooms Full of Teachers
The day started unremarkably--and then something remarkable happened. I had just ended a conference with a young writer, and as I pushed...


Pam Koutrakos
- Aug 19, 2018
Launching a Year of Meaningful Math: Ideas That Go All Year
For years in my classroom, literacy was the “it girl” getting all the attention and beginning-of-the-year hoopla: inquiry-driven...

John Altieri, Shanna Anderson, and Pam Koutrakos
- Aug 14, 2018
Introducing the Math Makeover Series
It’s summer, but you’re already planning for the year ahead. You envision last year’s students engaged in reading, or happily lost in...