Teach Rock for National Poetry Month
Take advantage of the free lessons and resources on the Teach Rock site to plan for arts-integrated, standards-based lessons that will engage your students.
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International Podcast Day
Get ready for International Podcast Day at the end of September with these educational resources that can be used with any age group!
The Pen Pal Project
Three more days to sign up for the USPS Pen Pal writing project for students in 3rd-5th grades!
Bias
Today is Juneteenth. 155 years ago, Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. This was two years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Unfortunately, the slow delivery of this official notice was indicative of the years that followed. Some Americans apparently … Read more
Texts for Talking About Race
As I continue to educate myself on anti-racism, I have vowed to devote a weekly post to this cause. I have been curating resources for this at a rate that is impossible to sustain, and it has been a bit overwhelming. I don’t want to dump a lot of links on you because you can … Read more
Storytelling School with the Moth
UPDATE 1/19/2021: You can still use the lessons from Storytelling School (there are 32 total), but The Moth has a new project for 2021 that I describe in this post.) The Moth is a program that promotes storytelling. You can listen to stories that have been curated from The Moth’s live shows on “The Moth … Read more