by aperkins | May 14, 2013 | Blog
Summer reading is the single summer activity that is most related to summer learning (Heyns, 1978). However, summer reading experiences are not equitable for students from high poverty homes or areas as compared to their peers. Students, on average, attend school for...
by aperkins | Mar 5, 2013 | Blog
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 Lesson Goes Wrong. As you view the video, keep these questions in mind: 1. How does Ms. Wessling know that her lesson isn’t...
by aperkins | Dec 17, 2012 | Blog
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 will need to address in order to deal with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and attend to college...
by aperkins | Nov 13, 2012 | Blog
In my last blog Are English Language Arts Teachers Ready? I address one instructional shift, Shift 3: Staircase of Complexity, ELA teachers will need to make in order to wholly address the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and attend to college and...
by aperkins | May 25, 2012 | Blog
Across the United States we have teachers, schools and/or districts on varying levels of implementation in regards to the implementation of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. Some are preparing to implement while others are partially or fully...
