Mentor texts from a variety of high-interest sources along with diverse authors can be a real game changer in secondary writing classrooms.

In their new book, Trusting Readers: Powerful Practices for Independent Reading, co-authors Jennifer Scoggin, Hannah Schneewind provide us with an accessible guide with tools teachers can use to grow enthusiastic and independent readers.

As many of us look to cultivate an antibias and antiracist community in our schools, we often struggle with where and how to get started.

Today on the podcast we're taking a closer look at a recent study from the American Institutes for Research, also known as AIR, evaluating the effectiveness of Lucy Calkins' Units of Study, and unpacking the results. We're joined by Francie Alexander, chi

What stories make you who you are? Who are you as a reader and writer?

Schools can take steps to increase student racial diversity--but sometimes putting policies into practice is more complicated than it should be. Today on the podcast we’re bringing you a special preview chapter from Robert Kim’s new audiobook Elevating

How do we address our own mistakes and model our responses? How do we create a mistakes-welcoming classroom?

Today on the podcast we're talking about the productive struggle of writing with Kelly Boswell, author of the new book Every Kid A Writer: Strategies That Get Everyone Writing.

Learn about civic engagement in the classroom with Mary Ehrenworth, Pablo Wolfe, and Marc Todd.

Young children love to learn and use new words. How do we tap into this natural curiosity and excitement to support vocabulary development? Today on the podcast we're joined by Tanya Wright, author of A Teacher's Guide to Vocabulary Development Across th