What is an interactive read aloud? An interactive read aloud is an instructional strategy done whole-class in which the teacher reads aloud a text to the class. What makes it interactive is that the teacher makes intentional pauses for conversation with students about different aspects …
Rebecca Weber is an assistant professor and the Education and Teaching Librarian at Oklahoma State University. She holds a Masters in Library and Information Studies from the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include the intersection of disability and curriculum and the role of libraries …
Leilya A. Pitre is an Assistant Professor and English Education Program Coordinator with experience in secondary school and college teaching. She taught English as a foreign language in the Ukraine and ELA/English in public schools in the US. Currently, she teaches methods courses for preservice …
Kimberly Slusser currently works with pre-service teachers at Ithaca College. She began her teaching career in rural Pennsylvania (where she still lives with her family), more than 20 years ago. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania, her Masters degree in Reading …
Dr. Sarah Fleming received her doctorate in Literacy Education at Syracuse University in May of 2020, and she currently works as an English teacher at Westhill High School in Syracuse, New York. She works primarily with students in the 1oth-12 grades, and her pedagogy centers …
Today’s blog post comes from Erin Dyke. Erin is an assistant professor of curriculum studies in the School for Teaching and Curriculum Leadership at Oklahoma State University. Her research focuses on pedagogies of social movement spaces; social justice, abolitionist, and decolonial movements in education; and …
JASON REYNOLDS: Imagine if we were just to make space for young people to express their stories as they stand today – at 11 years old and 12 years old and 15 years old. What we do intrinsically and implicitly, it validates their humanity at …
The ALAN Workshop is Monday, November 25th to Tuesday, November 26th. I am thrilled to be on the ALAN Board and to have had a few glimpses behind the scenes of the massive undertaking by Dr. Steve Bickmore and his crew. I look to ALAN …
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