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Education is a human endeavor. It prepares the individual for life...
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Recently, we’ve seen a number of institutions of higher education begin taking steps to diversify their school environments. Unfortunately, we haven’t seen the same...
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Helping students become strong, independent readers is an ongoing, time-consuming, and wholly necessary process. Dive into these ASCD myTeachSource® resources for ideas, lesson plans,...
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Last Spring I found myself in a place countless educators have experienced and will experience in their career: a job posting for a position...
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It’s important to reflect on three foundational literacy concepts and questions when developing students’ skills in reading, writing and thinking.
Reading is not a subject-...
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In 2016, we partnered with BAM! Radio Network to launch a new podcast for educators, ASCD Learn Teach Lead Radio. Each episode is an...
Coming in Loud and Clear: Using Your Voice to Advocate for Education in 2017
The metaphor of public education as a factory is a common trope. In an industrial model, schools are factories designed to mold students into...
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Teaching is hard...I mean really hard. We leave our teacher preparation programs with these Pollyanna dreams and hopes about what we want to do...
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