Guided Reading with English Language Learners in Kindergarten
Our literacy team shares different skills that you can teach ELLs when they’re reading at levels A, B, and C.
Search Results for: the diversity gap
How to Build a More Diverse Classroom Library
If one of your professional goals this year is to add more diversity to your school or classroom library, we’re here with some inspiration to get you started. In the following blog post, originally posted at the Center for the Collaborative Classroom and cross-posted with permission, our Director of Curriculum and Literacy Strategy Jill Eisenberg shares tips and suggestions for how to move forward without becoming overwhelmed.
New Visions Award FAQs
In this blog post, we answer some Frequently Asked questions related to our New Visions Award Writing Contest.
Authors of Color: Submit Your Manuscript to Our Writing Contests
Spread the word: our New Voices and New Visions Awards are open for submissions!
Classroom Library Assessment: How Culturally Responsive is Your Library?
Teachers, let’s talk about a popular topic across education blogs and Pinterest: the classroom library. A quick search on the Internet results in numerous tips, tricks, and ideas for different ways to configure and organize your classroom library. It’s an intensive and thoughtful process that involves thinking about genre, reading levels, interest levels, grade-level content, categories, … Continue reading Classroom Library Assessment: How Culturally Responsive is Your Library?
Twelve Things That Make Lee & Low a Unique Place to Publish
In this post, we give an inside peek into the experience of publishing with a small house and share 12 things that make Lee & Low a special place to publish.
Part 2–Having Students Analyze Our Classroom Library To See How Diverse It Is
In a follow-up interview to Jessica Lifshitz’s recent essay, guest blogger Jessica describes why she wanted her fifth grade students to analyze their classroom library for its culturally responsiveness and relevancy and how she included families and administrators.
Part 1–Having Students Analyze Our Classroom Library To See How Diverse It Is
In an excerpt of her essay, guest blogger Jessica Lifshitz describes how she empowers her fifth grade students to analyze their classroom library for its culturally responsiveness and relevancy.
Perseverance: Four American Performers of Color Who Found Success Abroad
The lack of diversity in the Oscars is part of a long history of discrimination against artists of color in the United States. Many people of color traveled to other countries where they would be free to perform their art. Here we look at the stories of two actors, Anna May Wong and Ira Aldridge, who found great success performing abroad.
“¿Qué es deportar?”: Teaching from Students’ Lives
We are so excited and honored to share this one educator’s example of why books featuring characters like her students belong in her classroom and curriculum. In this guest post, Sandra L. Osorio describes using books that captured her students’ bilingual and bicultural experiences.