C3 Cape Henlopen PD Session for Feb 15 - Book Club for Teachers
Book Club for Teachers: Fiction, Fantasy and
Friendly Ideas from the Field
Friendly Ideas from the Field
Whole group and small groups will banter and pontificate around this age old question: What are you
reading and why?
reading and why?
Premise: to teach well, we need to replenish our knowledge base. To understand more, we
need to share ideas and perspectives.
need to share ideas and perspectives.
Time and space on this golden PD day will allow us to informally share information about
three books: one we recently read, one that influenced us from the past and one book that helped
inform our teaching.
three books: one we recently read, one that influenced us from the past and one book that helped
inform our teaching.
Outcome: More ideas, redirected thoughts and relationships that are based on the incredible
power of books.
power of books.
RESOURCES
Lit Hub Lit Hub is a central place for writers, publishers, books, bookstores, librarians, and readers
to congregate and celebrate books and literary culture.
Cult of Pedagogy With this site, I hope to create what I did not have myself: a vibrant, encouraging, stimulating community of teachers, supporting each other toward excellence. I believe if we can reach across the limits of geography and find each other, there’s no limit to the amazing things we can accomplish.
Common Lit CommonLit delivers high-quality, free instructional materials (to all cores) to support literacy development for students in grades 3-12. Our resources are: Flexible; Research-Based; Aligned to the Common Core State Standards; Created by teachers, for teachers. We believe in the transformative power of a great text, and a great question. That’s why we are committed to keeping CommonLit completely free, forever.
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to congregate and celebrate books and literary culture.
Cult of Pedagogy With this site, I hope to create what I did not have myself: a vibrant, encouraging, stimulating community of teachers, supporting each other toward excellence. I believe if we can reach across the limits of geography and find each other, there’s no limit to the amazing things we can accomplish.
Common Lit CommonLit delivers high-quality, free instructional materials (to all cores) to support literacy development for students in grades 3-12. Our resources are: Flexible; Research-Based; Aligned to the Common Core State Standards; Created by teachers, for teachers. We believe in the transformative power of a great text, and a great question. That’s why we are committed to keeping CommonLit completely free, forever.
New York Times Special offer $1/week for a year!
New York Times Learning Network Whether you’re here for the first time or have been visiting our site regularly for the last 20 years, we invite you to take a look around.
Every school day since 1998, we have offered fresh classroom resources — from lesson plans and writing prompts to news quizzes, student contests and more — all based on the articles, essays, photos, videos and graphics published on NYTimes.com.
All of our features for students are free, and we hear from thousands of teenagers around the world each week. So whether the students you know are interested in politics or pop culture, science or sports, fashion, food or foreign affairs, invite them here to join the conversation.
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