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Lessons from a Jar
Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 by Anne-Evan Williams
Filed under: Instruction, Experts, Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist,
I suspect that the more time our children spend exploring ideas authentic to them on their terms, the more deeply they'll understand the world around them and the better able they'll be to make a significant mark on the world.
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Out of Control
Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 by Anne-Evan Williams
Filed under: Reading, Math, Assessments, Administrators, Teachers, Experts, Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist,
It's bad enough that children are increasingly losing control over their personal opinions and insights for the sake of making the right scores on high-stakes tests. It's awful when they become ill over it--when it's not about educating children as much as it is about controlling them.
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The End of Print as We Know It?
Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 by Anne-Evan Williams
Filed under: Reading, Administrators, Teachers, Home School, Special Education, Experts, Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist,
As far as reading goes, while I still read books, I now spend copious amounts of time reading material on the Internet - much more than I do reading from the pages of reference books or magazines. It's amazing to me that in fewer than a dozen years of my life, my experience of text has changed so drastically that now much of it happens electronically.
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Resolution for the Year of the Rat
Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 by Anne-Evan Williams
Filed under: Instruction, Administrators, Teachers, Home School, Special Education, Experts, Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist,
Let us hold on to our promises to kids – for California, to really make this the “Year of Education,” for the U.K. to encourage others to make this the “National Year of Reading” – and stop for a moment and make a resolution to see education as something beyond the books, classroom lessons, and homework assignments – to see the face of real children whose lives affect us and are affected by us. Let’s make this year, perhaps this era, one for the prosperity of our children and youth. (0) Comments • Permalink
Freedom Writers
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 by Anne-Evan Williams
Filed under: Reading, Instruction, Administrators, Teachers, Home School, Special Education, Experts, Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist,
As I see it, when kids truly want to learn something - especially from curricula that encourage them to deal with real life issues like race and violence, while helping them develop strong enough literacy skills to make it to college - we do them more of a disservice by not allowing them to explore those materials. (0) Comments • Permalink
Should Reading Be So Hard?
Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 by Anne-Evan Williams
Filed under: Reading, Instruction, Administrators, Teachers, Home School, Special Education, Experts, Paolo Martin, Reading Specialist,
With the drudgery of some reading programs which employ rote tasks that aren't applicable to authentic and meaningful textual experiences, I fear that we make reading much harder for kids than it should be... (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink