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Pam Koutrakos
Dec 6, 2019
Teaching Students How To Transfer Conventions Into Their Writing
“You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink.” Ah, yes, this proverb is so true when it comes to teaching, hoping,...
Dana Clark
Nov 27, 2018
Classrooms Full of Teachers
The day started unremarkably--and then something remarkable happened. I had just ended a conference with a young writer, and as I pushed...
Pam Koutrakos
Aug 19, 2018
Launching a Year of Meaningful Math: Ideas That Go All Year
For years in my classroom, literacy was the “it girl” getting all the attention and beginning-of-the-year hoopla: inquiry-driven...
John Altieri, Shanna Anderson, and Pam Koutrakos
Aug 14, 2018
Introducing the Math Makeover Series
It’s summer, but you’re already planning for the year ahead. You envision last year’s students engaged in reading, or happily lost in...
