Pamela Koutrakos’s book, Word Study That Sticks: Best Practices, came to me at the perfect moment. I’d been talking that week with some teachers I support and we needed some new ideas to breathe life in to word study. Word Study That Sticks was the resources I needed to facilitate great discussions when collaborating with …
You know, it used to be that to have a polite conversation, we just had to follow the advice of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, “Stick to the weather and to your health.” But with climate change and anti-vaxxing, those subjects are not safe either. …
mojo noun mo •jo \ mō-(,)jō\ : a power that may seem magical and that allows someone to be very effective, successful. Full Disclosure—I have, in the past, violated the acceptable time limit for a targeted mini-lesson. And I didn’t need a schoolhouse clock on the wall to tell me I’d gone over. It would …
