A Summer Spent Making Literacy Memories

CTL staff member Barbara Myerson Katz asked in her June blog entry Memories of Summer Reading and Writing, “Do you have memories of summer reading and writing? How can educators and parents ensure that the children of the early 21st century have great memories of...

Memories of Summer Reading and Writing

One of my fondest summer memories is of going with my mom to the branch library not far from our home in suburban Philadelphia. We’d generally go in the evening, while it was still light out but not quite as hot and sticky as during the day. We would climb the...

Blogging Revisited

I’ve recently been revisiting several blog posts and resources that I wrote in the last couple of years. My renewed focus on writing in math class is a result of reading several articles (Learning from Weblogs, Reducing Gender Achievement Gap, & Talkback Project)...

In Support of the National Writing Project

In this post I wanted to show my support for the National Writing Project (NWP). Given the funding concerns in Washington it is important for the NWP to continue. I know I’m a math guy and I don’t teach English/Language Arts, but I do know a lot of...

Memorable Teachers, Memorable Teaching

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...