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4 choices when you join us for study this summer
Listen in as Allison Herrick and I talk about the science of reading
Listen to Seasons of Love from the Broadway musical Rent
Why Teaching Students to be Critical Readers (and Thinkers) Will Change the World blog
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3 Test Prep Boot Camps for you!
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Writing templates and other FREE resources made especially for you!
My favorite "tools" for leveraging the power of poetry to teach everyday essential reading & writing skills
Learn more about New Teacher Academy
5 Tips for Test Prep and Setting Students Up for Success
10 Quick Test Prep Ideas to Get Your Students (and YOU) Warmed Up to Testing
Join Allison and Renee for these fun thinking sessions to level up your teaching
30 Great Read Aloud Books Every Teacher Needs
Join Renee for a Read Aloud
Vist Main Street Books
How to move forward when you feel overwhelmed
10 reflection questions after the fall term
Close (and relaunch) the Calendar Yearwith Simple Success
The key to success with your curriculum choices from January to June is a well-thought-out plan. Click for my 5-step plan for building a framework for a stellar year for both YOU and your students.
Dr. Sharon Jones Connects the Dots to Train Teachers on Technology & Critical Thinking
Meaningful Student-Centered Classroom Libraries
How do teachers do it all and fit it all in?
Meet Kristi Mraz, Educational Thinking Partner
Co-authoring a shared experience using trick or treat busy bags
Meet Allison Herrick, Educational Thinking Partner
Teacher Think Tank - a school of support
Join the Universal Transitional Kindergarten Collective!
New Teacher Academy is now enrolling
Use these 4 steps to help you reduce decision fatigue
Introducing Building Brilliance – a unique Mastermind program where education principals meet entrepreneurial principles
Listen as Meg Seitz and I talk about how to level up your leadership
Learn more about Building Brilliance – a unique Mastermind program where education principals meet entrepreneurial principles
Create shared experiences through read alouds by modeling thinking through reading and thinking as a community
Read about how Renee helped ELA support coordinator Demi Aguirre create systems that support teachers and students
Systems of Care: Read our looking back to look forward blog series post using systems-based thinking
Systems of Communication: Our looking back to look forward blog series continues
Systems of Collaboration: Our looking back to look forward blog series concludes
Your Story Matters - a course dedicated to writers and the teachers who support them
Teaching poetry helps build incredible skill sets that support other areas of independence that educators value, like creating habits that foster readers and writers.
Your Story Matters podcast with Antonio Sacre
Support Willenberg CTC's Blue Lab
Take a Poetry Walk!
Schedule some time to see how we can collaborate!
Read about how Renee helped Heidi Schaefer transition her brick and mortar classroom into remote teaching
Part One, Partnership Talk & Collaborative Conversations | The Listening Part of Conversation: Inquiry
Part Two, Partnership Talk & Collaborative Conversations | The Speaking Part of Conversations: A Road Map for Collaboration
Preparing Your Teaching Texts
Learn how Renee helped Instructional Support Specialist Emerald Johnson with a writing process plan for Wingate Elementary
Watch me and my friend, colleague, and thinking partner, Kristi Mraz, share how to grow student engagement by increasing choice
Since working with Renee, Kimberly writes more…and so do the students she teaches!
Watch to learn how Browse Bins increase student choice and promote independent reading
Our Reading Identity Survey is a great tool for students to think through their identity as a reader
When Kristi found herself struggling to feel prepared for remote teaching Renee helped brainstorm solutions and an action plan
Chasing Progress: Coaching in the Gray with Brian Sepe
4 Classroom Routines & Rituals to Encourage Independent Reading
Read about how Renee helped one San Pedro school administrator empower his students and teachers
Think vertically! Look to your colleagues in other grades and get strategic on what you’re all teaching.
New Podcast! Episode 15: Chasing Progress: Coaching in the Gray with Brian Sepe
3 Easy Steps for Intentional and Strategic Goal Setting
Unisex Adult LS Pancake Tee in 7 Colors
Women's cap sleeve Roll With It! roller skating tee in 9 colors
ALL WE NEED IS TED LASSO: Part 1 - Making ‘Biscuits with the Boss’ Work for You
ALL WE NEED IS TED LASSO: Part 2 - How to Fire Up Those Ten Minute Meets
ALL WE NEED IS TED LASSO: Part 3 – Be a Goldfish
ALL WE NEED IS TED LASSO: Part 4 – Believe