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Ncte: "Can We Blog About This?": Amplifying Student Voice in Secondary Language
This article describes blogging implementation in ninth-grade pre-advanced placement language arts classes to support strong writing practices. The author found that blogging empowered high school authors to craft worlds of digital...
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Analog to Digital: Why and How to Teach Students to Write for an Online Audience
This article discusses the importance of teaching students how to write for an online audience using traditional writing skills but transitioning these to digital media. The author talks about ways to incorporate social media and...
LD Online
Ld Online: Teaching Adolescents With Learning Disabilities, Part 2
This article discusses, in-depth, the idea of "watering up" the social and emotional environment for adolescents with learning disabilities, which is referred to as the affective aspect of the classroom. The author focuses on explaining...
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University of Texas: Dressed for Success? The Effect of School Uniforms [Pdf]
Comprehensive report on the effect of school uniforms on school safety and achievement. For the authors' conclusions, scroll down to Page 21, Conclusion. (Jan. 15, 2010)
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Indiana University: Improving High School Graduation Rates [Pdf]
As a result of an extensive study regarding the epidemic the U.S. is seeing of school dropouts the authors thoroughly compiled research and statistics of this dropout crisis. Stanley & Plucker provide strategies to lessen the problem...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Alison Clark Efford, in the Trump Era, Supporting Our Immigrants
This article focuses on how to support immigrants and international students in the current anti-immigration climate. Two authors discuss their work: "Abrazando El Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border" by Ana Rosas...
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Shoreline Community College: Formal Properties of Literature
As students become more aware of text complexity, an understanding of the formal properties of literature becomes more important. This is an excellent examination of the kinds of choices writers make that change the way readers receive...
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Wes Tech Vision: Inspiration Software
This article explains why Inspiration is a must for your classroom. The author states that Inspiration is "Available to help learners of all ages bridge the gap between visual and textual literacy, and aid in concept development in...
Grammar Check
Grammar Check:how to Write a Book the 10 Phases
This article is intendend for students who would like to write a book. The article includes 10, easy-to-follow steps.
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Petrarch: Peter Sadlon: English Court Poets and Petrarchism
This is a class talk by Matthew Griffiths to his students on the topic of English court poets and Petrachism focusing on poets Wyatt, Sidney, and Spenser and their works. Topics include themes of courtly and platonic love, the role of...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: How Knowledge Helps
The author, a professor of cognitive psychology, notes, "It's true that knowledge gives students something to think about, but knowledge does much more than just help students hone their thinking skills, it actually makes learning...
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: News Values
Learn the essential elements of every good news story from Gerald Lanson and Mitchell Stephens, authors of Writing and Reporting The News, who emphasize eleven judgments that journalism students should make when evaluating newsworthiness.
International Reading Association
Reading Online: Practice Makes Practice, or Does It?
In this journal article, the authors sought to determine the relationship between theory from teacher training programs and actual reality of what happens in an instructional setting with new teachers. The researchers concluded that...
Other
Hands on Civics: An Approach to Increase Community Intelligence
This article outlines a program that the author has used with academically at-risk ninth grade students to enhance their understanding of how communities work and how they can change through individual and group efforts.
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Assert: Parent's Perspective: Angelman Syndrome [Pdf]
Written by a teaching assistant who saw a need to advocate for children with Angelman Syndrome and their parents, this PDF article provides detailed information, including a personal story, on schooling for students with AS. Also...
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Journal of Statistics Education: A Sample / Population Size Activity
The author of the article admits having had a difficult time in the past when getting students to understand that samples need to contain a substantial portion of the population. Here, an activity is detailed to bring this important fact...