by aperkins | Jul 23, 2010 | Blog
I used to end my classes with this message to my students: Be nice to those people different than you. Since no two people are the same, the message was to be kind to every single person. I committed to this mission because of the lack of empathy toward one another I...
by admin | Mar 9, 2010 | Blog
I can still sing the lyrics to a song written to the tune of the Notre Dame Victory March by my third grade teacher, Barbara Goldberg, for a class play entitled “Paul in Foodland,” built around our science curriculum on food and health: “March, march...
by aperkins | Nov 24, 2009 | Blog
Have you ever wormed your arm inside a catfish hole on the bottom of a lake? Have you ever used your bare hands as bait to blindly catch a fish? If so, you have been noodling. If you are still having a hard time picturing the game of fishing without using a rod and...
by Amy Awbrey Pallangyo | Nov 10, 2009 | Blog
Federal legislation was just introduced in the Senate yesterday to provide funding for future pre-K through 12 Literacy funding efforts – the LEARN bill. While the details of the bill are myriad, there are some critical overarching features of the adolescent...
by Amy Awbrey Pallangyo | Oct 27, 2009 | Blog
Training and ongoing coaching are key aspects of successfully implementing any adolescent literacy initiative. However, years of experience demonstrates that even excellent and thorough professional development, without accountability, will do nothing to improve...
