Ashley is a lead trainer, program designer, developer, author and mentor coach. She uses her experience as a high school classroom teacher, writing cluster leader and literacy coach to work on various projects, including the federally funded Striving Readers adolescent literacy project. She is a Language Arts specialist and focuses her expertise on other ELA teachers and foundational literacy, including as part of CTL’s work on the federal Promise Neighborhoods planning grant.
We know that for students to be ready for the complexity of college and career texts, all students need opportunity to closely read literary and informational complex texts with appropriate and necessary scaffolding. Read More →
Guest Blogger Stella Baker is an English Language Arts teacher at Owsley County Middle School. She has been teaching in Kentucky schools for 29 years. … Read More →
Guest Blogger Stella Baker is an English Language Arts teacher at Owsley County Middle School. She has been teaching in Kentucky schools for 29 years. … Read More →
Recently I attended a conference session where the principal provided an overview of how her school pays attention to student centered classrooms. Early into her session, I heard her say that she conducts… Read More →
Digital literacy is the skills, knowledge, creativity and attitudes that are necessary to be able to use digital media for learning and mastering in the Knowledge Society. It is this literacy that builds a bridge between skills… Read More →
It’s late August and students, parents and teachers are sliding into back to school routines. Lunchboxes have been chosen. Backpacks have been selected. Notebooks have been purchased. … Read More →
Summer reading is the single summer activity that is most related to summer learning (Heyns, 1978). However, summer reading experiences… Read More →
How do we make right a lesson that has gone wrong? This is the question teacher Sarah Brown Wessling addresses in her video When a … Read More →
What makes a text complex? Is it the structure? Is it sentence length? Is it student motivation? Text complexity is made up of all these … Read More →
In my November blog entry Using Text Evidence to Support Responses I address instructional Shift 4: Text Based Answers. This shift is one area we … Read More →