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ASCD's 2012 Annual Conference, March 24–26, focuses on the theme "A Collective Call to Action." Make your plans to attend.
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You Learn. You Teach. Now, Lead.
ASCD is now accepting applications for the ASCD Emerging Leaders program. ASCD emerging leaders are educators who have been in the profession for 5–15 years and demonstrate their passion for learning, teaching, and leading through ASCD's two-year leadership program. Learn more about the Emerging Leaders program at www.ascd.org/emergingleaders.
Designing Learning Activities Webinar
Anne Reeves explains how educators can take traditional educational practices that have worked for years and align them with newer school standards.
Reviving the Read-Aloud
Reading aloud in the classroom is something that is done increasingly less. Teachers should make time for reading aloud to benefit students' contextual understanding of vocabulary, grammar, and style.
Blog Watch: Things My Hipster Teacher Says
This blog allows students to post their favorite quote from their "hipster" teachers. The quotes range from insightful to funny to surreal.
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Avoiding Teacher Burnout
How do seasoned teachers surmount the perennial difficulties of their jobs—difficult students, an irritating colleague or parent, less-than-ideal environments, the difficult balance of work and home—and recapture the spark that ignited their passion for teaching long ago? The next issue will look at how educators avoid burnout during their careers.
Reading: The Core Skill
Reading is, arguably, the most important skill for students to be successful in their schooling. From preschool and kindergarten, students need to hone their reading skills if they are going to be proficient and keep up with each grade level of reading.
Educators are tasked with designing curriculum that allows students to improve their reading and makes sure they comprehend what they have learned.
In this issue of ASCD Express and in the latest issue of Educational Leadership, teachers discuss how they help their students keep up on reading and explain what techniques are not only fun and engaging, but also improve this extremely important skill that students use daily.
Dismantling the Myth of Learning to Read and Reading to Learn
The authors suggest that, to have the most effect on students' abilities, teachers use strategies that help students simultaneously develop the skills of learning to read and reading to learn.
Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum: The Importance of High School Electives
Educator Jerry Floate explains why electives are important to building reading skills and ensuring that students are properly prepared for life after they graduate.
Literacy Starts with Teachers
For students to become literate, teachers themselves must be more than capable of grasping reading and comprehension strategies, and professional development can help.
Resources for Reading Instruction
How to Improve Content Understanding Using Reading Strategies
See how students studying biology strengthen their reading skills and comprehension by reading aloud, participating in group activities, and learning science-related vocabulary in their high school classes.
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Douglas Reeves: What Is "Good Reading," Anyway?
Reading assessments, writing about reading, and stronger secondary-level support should work together to increase students' reading comprehension—the crucial but sometimes elusive goal of school-based literacy.
My Back Pages: Literature for Students (1943)
Read this article from a 1943 issue of Educational Leadership about how ASCD used to review literature for younger students.
A Stroke, a Blessing, and an Insight
Recovering from a stroke gave high school teacher Carol Maloney insight into what can help students with learning abilities who struggle to read, write, and focus in the classroom.
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