My students love reading. As a teacher, it is one of the few things that I take pride in having helped to develop. They devour novels as if starved for intellectual stimulation, which I suppose they are. This is about falling in love with the novel.
Reading may not be able to alter your baseline abilities, but it can increase what facts you know, allow you to better identify patterns, increase your empathy, and make your neurological connections more pervasive. Here's how.
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Books that celebrate teachers and the teaching profession.
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Social justice and community service ideas for bookish types.
Reading recommendations for books about well-meaning teachers.
Why are we studying comics in college? Oh, I'll tell you why, buddy.
A reminder of the influence a public school librarian can have
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I wonder what would happen if, for just one moment, everybody stopped worrying about the books that kids are or ...
