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Covid-19 Isolation: Daily Lessons, Joseph S. Pizzo Aug 2022

Covid-19 Isolation: Daily Lessons, Joseph S. Pizzo

New Jersey English Journal

COVID-19 continually disrupts classroom structure, design, and the lessons being taught. A return to in-person, on-site classrooms is being challenged again by new variants and people’s desire to gather during holidays. Our goal as caring educators is to “educate rather than separate” as we “continue / To humanize / Our study / Of humanities.”


Community Building Through Classroom Routine: A Language Arts Class Opener, Deborah Overstreet Aug 2022

Community Building Through Classroom Routine: A Language Arts Class Opener, Deborah Overstreet

New Jersey English Journal

Classroom community is a key component in building the kind of environment where students thrive. Specific academic routine can be an effective method of both creating a supportive classroom community and teaching language arts content.


Professional Development, John Chorazy Aug 2022

Professional Development, John Chorazy

New Jersey English Journal

Written from the perspective of a teacher, this poem reflects on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.


Great Lakes Great Books: A New Season, Lynette Marten Suckow Jul 2022

Great Lakes Great Books: A New Season, Lynette Marten Suckow

Michigan Reading Journal

Five book reviews from the Great Lakes Great Books list for the 2022-2023 school year.


An Honorary Team Member: The Role Of A Literacy Coach In Supporting Writing Teachers, Macie Kerbs Mar 2022

An Honorary Team Member: The Role Of A Literacy Coach In Supporting Writing Teachers, Macie Kerbs

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

When teachers collaborate around student writing with the support of a literacy coach, their practice becomes more intentional, and their students grow as writers. The aim of this study was to explore writing teachers’ language and practice as they engaged in a professional learning community around a single unit of study for poetry writing with the support from a coach. The findings reveal a recursive process of collaborative professional learning that includes the following phases: assess, analyze, teach, reflect, adjust. Through job-embedded coaching combined with the structure of a Professional Learning Community (PLC), teachers acted more agentively in their planning, …