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Activate Empathy, Mobilize Kindness: Strategies and Resources for Educators
By Barbara Gruener Part of our Counselor’s Corner series. Click to read other posts in the Counselor’s Corner. Even though it has been almost 16 years since I moved from a high school—where I’d been scheduling students into classes, counting graduation … Continue reading
Posted in Social & Emotional Learning, Teaching Strategies
Tagged children’s books, empathy, fiction, kindness
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Summer Reading Lists: Bore, Chore, or Score?
By Eric Braun Whether the kids in your life love to read, hate to read, or, most likely, are somewhere in the middle, the answer to the titular question is largely up to us—the grown-ups, the makers and enforcers of … Continue reading
Summertime and the Reading Is Easy
By Ann Camacho, editor of Bookmarked, a collection of teen essays Summer! Reading! Hmmm . . . what’s wrong with that sequence of words? Maybe your teenage students would tell you exactly what mine tell me: Summer has nothing to … Continue reading
Fiction and the Development of Character
Books and stories are so full of amazing people—people who face challenges and develop strengths because of it. Imagine this story: An exceptionally gifted child grows up with gifted siblings. While he is very young, adults notice him and his … Continue reading
Posted in Character Education, Parenting
Tagged character ed, ender’s game, fiction, gifted, nanowrimo, national novel writing month, reading
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Teaching Literature through the Common Core
by Ann Camacho, author of Bookmarked Every year at the beginning of my American Literature class, I tell my students that “Books are the blueprints to living, the roadmaps of our lives,” and I mean it with all my heart. … Continue reading