Quite a bit has happened in the two years since A Reason to Read: Linking Literacy and the Arts was published. Our lab school Habla in Mexico has been hosting an annual teacher institute that is now a gathering place of progressively-minded teachers and artists from around the world. We’ve had the pleasure in the last year of working with teachers, artists,…
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Bringing Learning To Life in the Classroom
by Eileen Landay “I agree with that kid over there!” The tenth grader pointed to a student seated on the other side of the room. It was the beginning of the spring semester in a large urban high school. The student teacher, having just taken over the class from her cooperating teacher, was attempting a class discussion using a protocol…