Professional Resources

How to Align Literacy Instruction, Assessment, and Standards: And Achieve Results You NEVER Dreamed Possible

In this book, Nancy Akhavan details the stories and strategies that enabled her school to move from "under-performing" status to one in which students achieve and teachers have a whole new understanding of targeted instruction, sensitive...

How to Become a Better Writing Teacher

How to Become a Better Writing Teacher is a hands-on, practical guide for teachers looking to improve their writing instruction. Carl and Matt offer 50 high-impact actions teachers can take to level up key aspects of their practice, including: getting...

How to Become a Better Writing Teacher.

How to Catch a Shark : And Other Stories About Teaching and Learning

"I submit that the well-told, well-chosen story can tell the most about the qualitative status of both teaching and learning in the classroom." So says Donald Graves, author of this unique new book and one of the field's best-loved and most...

How to Catch a Shark : And Other Stories About Teaching and Learning.

HOW VERY YOUNG CHILDREN EXPLORE WRITING

This book is one in a series of three written for parents, caregivers, early childhood teachers, and teachers of children in their first year at school. No set order is intended. Each book offers unique discussions and suggestions, and each is complete...

How's It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers

Our one-on-one talks with students during writing workshop offer us perfect opportunities to zero in on what each student needs as a writer. As Lead Staff Developer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Carl Anderson has provided hundreds...

How's It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers.

Humans Who Teach

Love. Love now. Love always. Time and lives are wasting. Humans Who Teach invites readers to explore the complicated humanity of those who teach, with a focus on how we have been socialized to accept the status quo, our very real fears in disrupting...