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Our Learning Journey with The Superior Writers of Stonebrook-White Montessori School

  We have been volunteering having made a long-term commitment to a Cleveland city school second grade classroom. Working with our cooperating teacher, Quartez Harris (Ohio Poet of the Year, 2021) and his teaching partner assistant, Harriet Cole has been the opportunity of a lifetime. First, we rarely get the chance to write with students …

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How do you get students to want to revise their writing?

When this question was posed by Larry Ferlazzo for his column in Education Week, we were happy to respond with our strategy to engage students by encouraging them to see every piece of writing as an evolving document. (see below). He received four strong responses and we urge you to read the full context of …

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Pre-planning a Social Emotional Lesson in a Digital Environment

“You can’t improvise digital teaching.” Dawn Neely Randall, Grade 5 teacher, Elyria, OH. Our teachers are stretched beyond human limits. Attached please find (shared with permission) a Facebook post by our longtime friend, 30+ year teaching veteran, and spokesperson for kids and teachers in OH, Dawn Neely Randall.  We stand with teachers and want you to …

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Repeated Reading and Fluency: A Conversation with Tim Rasinski and Melissa Cheesman-Smith

We sat down with fellow Ohioan, researcher/author Dr. Timothy Rasinski and his brilliant partner teacher Melissa Cheesman-Smith to talk about the importance of repeated reading aloud for students working to increase their reading and speaking fluency. We posed a series of questions to these experts and made 4 short videos of Tim and Melissa’s responses …

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How RWS supports bilingual education

“For language learners to be successful in schools, we have to do more than just scaffold instruction, reinforce students’ awareness of academic language and acknowledge and support their home language development. We also need to create instructional contexts where students’ identities are affirmed, and they develop the sense that they are capable of strong academic …

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