Project based learning helps CTL achieve one of our goals: to advance a vision of schooling that engages all students in interesting and rigorous work, develops their talents and abilities, and prepares them for college and career. Read More →
CTL’s model of research-based strategies to engage students in literacy rich environments is a catalyst for authentic project based learning (PBL) experiences. Read More →
By Sharon Darling: An often overlooked strategy to achieve college and career readiness is family engagement that is focused on literacy development across generations. Meaningful interactions that bring parents and children together to work, play, read, and learn can lead to enhanced language, literacy, emotional, and cognitive development. Read More →
A significant shift for teachers who want better conversations in their classrooms is that they must give up the sage on the stage mindset and embrace the thinking of their students on a level that conveys mutual respect. Read More →
If we’re going to have students write, let’s have them create and share blog posts, right? I see this often as I work with teachers around project based learning and almost as often I come back with this…I wonder who will read it? Read More →
The National Adolescent Literacy Coalition (NALC) recently announced that CTL’s Ashley Perkins has been named to serve on its steering committee. Read More →
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. 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 →
We’ll explore new research showing a major shift from reading to writing in recent years and what that may mean for teaching and learning including the Common Core. 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 →