Dear teacher, As a fellow early childhood educator, I feel the honor it is to spend the days with our youngest learners, helping them see the joy in learning through literacy, nature, mathematics, play, and more. Everything is new and wondrous, and...
Two rising sixth graders explain why it’s important to share book recommendations. They also provide a printable form for creating your own Shelf Talkers. Download the Resource Dive deeper into insightful resources designed to support educators and...
In this episode, host Gary R. Gray Jr. talks with Fairfax County educators Amanda Dey, Jessica DiBeneditto, Sara Kugler, and Amanda Manno about how they reimagined book clubs in their elementary classrooms. Together, they discuss shifting from...
Dear Amazing Elementary Educator, Let’s start off with a visualization exercise: Imagine I am standing right in front of you with two objects in hand. In my right hand, I hold a pair of scissors, my index and middle finger slipped into the handles...
Following MM’s Curiosity (Background) As our class was taking part in our daily read aloud time, a student noticed the bookmark with Rebecca Gardyn Levington’s face, a picture of the book Whatever Comes Tomorrow, and a QR code. MM asked if we could...