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On March 11, 2008, an English teacher at Perry Meridian High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, Connie Heermann, was suspended for a year and a half without pay for using the Freedom Writers Diary in her classroom against the wishes of the school board. [2] [3] Administrators objected to racial slurs and sexual content in portions of the book. [4 ...
The Units of Study curriculum guide books and "workshop" model centers on independent student work in combination with teacher modeling and one-on-one and small-group guidance. [17] The Project has also published a Classroom Library Series through Heinemann, which includes books for grades K-8 from more than 50 different publishers. These books ...
Lucy Calkins and her colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project wrote a new guide called A Curricular Plan for the Writing Workshop (Heinemann, 2011). This aimed to align the units of study she recommended in the past with the new Common Core State Standards, including narrative, persuasive, informational, and poetry ...
2020 marked the first full school year since the relaunch of RMT, and to celebrate they created a Teacher of the Year Award to recognize the best rated teachers in each state or province according to the students' reviews. To be considered, a teacher must have an average overall rating above a 4.0 and to win, they must have the highest overall ...
In 2010, Thaiss and Porter defined WAC as "a program or initiative used to 'assist teachers across disciplines in using student writing as an instructional tool in their teaching'". [1] WAC, then, is a programmatic effort to introduce multiple instructional uses of writing beyond assessment. [2]
[2] Her first book, All I Ever Wanted, was published in 2011. It won the inaugural Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for Young Adult Fiction in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults in the same year. [3] Two years later her second book, Friday Brown, won the same prize. [4]
[4] [5] Goldberg is a teacher who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her 1986 book Writing Down the Bones sold over two million copies and is considered an influential work on the craft of writing. [6] [7] [8] Her 2013 book, The True Secret of Writing, is a follow-up to that work. [9] [10]
Robert Arthur Jr. (November 10, 1909 – May 2, 1969) was a writer and editor of crime fiction and speculative fiction [1] known for his work with The Mysterious Traveler radio series and for writing The Three Investigators, a series of young adult novels. [2] [3]