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What Does Investing and Teaching Have in Common?

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Jill Jackson :: January 26, 2012

“No matter what happens, stick to your program. I’ve said ‘Stay-the-course’ a thousand times and I meant it every time..." Read more »

Evidence Strongly Supports Discussion as a Means for Comprehension

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Jill Jackson :: January 23, 2012

The evidence STRONGLY supports discussion as a means to teach, practice and assess comprehension, but you have to structure it right and practice it often for it to be a success. Read more »

Teacher Style vs. Teacher Substance - A Great Quote!

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Jill Jackson :: January 19, 2012

We have to use not personality-driven techniques, but those techniques that are highly transferable from classroom to classroom and content area to content area. Read more »

Ways to Read Text in All Content Areas and Grade Levels

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Jill Jackson :: January 16, 2012

I hope that we can agree on the fact that having students read one-by-one aloud to the class in a Round Robin fashion is probably not the most motivating or accountability-driven way to read text. Read more »

Comprehension Now and Future

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Jill Jackson :: January 12, 2012

There are common practices that we see often from school to school and district to district – some that serve our students well and some that we do because we’ve always done it that way. Read more »

 

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