Good morning Dr. Louis, I am having my students complete outside reading before they come to class and as a way to support their comprehension and prepare them for a quick reading quiz, I am going to have them write …
Hi. My name is Melissa. I was trained by you last school year with junior high and high school teachers of Ennis ISD. My seventh-grade students are writing a biography about an author. I’m requiring them to use the Jane …
Dear Dr. D’, What do I tell my department when they would like to change the ratios from what they were taught? Frustrated Department Chair Dear Frustrated, Your question is one which I address on a regular basis; and, now …
Dear Teachers, Today is the fourth blog in a four-part series called “Hitting on All-Cylinders” (HOAC). The series began with one of my colleagues asking me how to get everything done in a given year. In other words, her Scope and Sequence (S&S) …
Dear Dr. Louis, I recently gave my students the following prompt: “Write an essay explaining why hard work is necessary to be successful.” My District Coordinator told me that [the students’ responses] were not showing the “hard work” required in the …
This workshop is two days, 5 hours each day (not including lunch). Day 1 is a prerequisite to Day 2. The morning of Day 1 covers part of the same content as Teaching the Paragraph in ELA and Content-Area Classes; …