It’s summer!! Have you found ways to enjoy the children in your life during this break from the school year? Dr. Mooney shares a great resource for planning cost-effective, engaging summer fun you can do with your kids at home.
Dr. Mooney suggests three books that should be on your reading list. Each tells the true story of a child who may share experiences with students in your own classes. Read these page turners to gain insight into your students’ lives.
Do you find yourself sharing EL teaching strategies with your colleagues? Do they keep coming back for more? Perhaps instead of individual strategies, you need to share these tips that can prepare them to make pedagogical decisions independently.
Follow along while Dr. Mooney demonstrates how to use a few simple tips to write comprehensible letters to English Learner families. The benefits to family engagement will far outweigh the time you invest!
Schools sometimes look for outside resources to help them address the problems they face. However, developing healthy partnerships with the community surrounding the school may be a more effective route to the solutions they need.
Families have the right to be included in significant decisions about their child’s education. The key to embracing this principle is for educators to be willing to give up a measure of their control.
As educators, we cannot expect families to be engaged with their child’s learning if we have not first considered whether they believe they should be. Empowering families with the knowledge and belief that their engagement matters is a vital task f...
Communication and Relationship. Educators know they need both of these when interacting with families. Constantino’s Principle 2 provides some insight into developing effective communication with families so that strong, lasting relationships can b...
Family engagement begins at the school. Educators must analyze their core assumptions and beliefs about families in order to build a relationship with them that will encourage effective engagement.
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Infographic
Thanks for the Phonology infographic! Very helpful info for me and my district!
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Artist’s/Writer’s Workshop
The Universal Language of Pictures: A Critical Tool for Advancing Student Writing by Beth Olshansky provides a strong rationale for leading students to begin their writing projects with artwork. You can read my article about a few of her ideas, but w...
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Enjoyed learning about this alternative to frontloading vocabulary. I think there are many teachers out there who teach using a discovery method like you shared in the magnetism lesson example, but they don’t realize the importance of connectin...
