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. Teachers have prepped their classrooms. Rosters are printed and teachers have planned lessons. When students and teachers arrive at this place together, the classroom, there is one element of classroom […]
Why join #KyEdChat? Why should busy educators use Twitter at all? The answer is simple: Twitter and other social media put a professional learning community and network literally at your fingertips.
Please make plans to join us for a Google Hangout discussion via our YouTube channel as we bring together three experts to discuss the what, why and how…
How has CTL transformed teaching and school leadership? This infographic tells the story of how our regional and global work helps schools achieve dramatic results through literacy and leadership development.
The National Adolescent Literacy Coalition (NALC) recently announced that CTL’s Ashley Perkins has been named to serve on its steering committee.
If we want to foster innovative thought, adaptability and complex problem solving on the part of our students, we need to engage them in activities that develop these various abilities.
Simply stated, the more teachers view vocabulary learning as an integral part of content learning rather than as an extra, isolated step in instruction, the more effectively their students will be able to talk and use the language of the discipline.
