Ideas & inspiration from the developers of the Responsive Classroom approach
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We’ve just posted all the articles from the August 2010 issue of the Responsive Classroom newsletter on our website. (The print edition is scheduled to mail in early August; we hustled to get the articles online early for those of you who are already starting to think about beginning a new school year.) Here’s what’s in the new issue [...]
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Do you remember Margaret Wilson’s “Math is Everywhere!” post from earlier this year? You know, the one about the rat that fell out of the ceiling and landed next to her at the airport – and all the great math problems she thought of as a result?
At the time, Margaret was working with Andy Dousis and our editors on a new book called Doing Math in Morning Meeting. Last week we sent the final manuscript to the printer [...]
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Our newest publication is an audiobook version of Caltha Crowe’s Sammy and His Behavior Problems: Stories and Strategies from a Teacher’s Year. I asked Michael Lain, the project manager for the audiobook, if he’d take us behind the scenes. [...]
Continue reading “The Making of Sammy: The Audiobook”
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A few Responsive Classroom-related tidbits to savor this weekend:
Over on the “Wonder of Children” blog, Lisa Dewey Wells has a great post called “A Change Will Do You Good – 8 Tips to Help Hold it Together as the Year Winds Down,” which beautifully summarizes issues and strategies for elementary educators at the end of the [...]
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ASCD just released an e-book called Keeping the Whole Child Healthy and Safe, and you can download it for free through May 17th!
Keeping the Whole Child Healthy and Safe is the fourth in a series that’s part of ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative. (The third book in the series, Engaging the Whole Child, included essays by [...]
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Michelle Flores, lead teacher at Aspire Capitol Heights Academy in Sacramento, California, contacted us last week to share that her school had been designated a California Distinguished Elementary School for 2010. … The application for this award includes a detailed description of two “signature practices” used at the school, and Capitol Heights included their use of the Responsive Classroom approach as one of theirs. Michelle told me that the Responsive Classroom practices that her school started using in 2006 have been a key to “amazing changes…” [...]
Continue reading “RC Works!: Capitol Heights Academy”
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We’ve just posted all the articles from the April 2010 issue of the Responsive Classroom newsletter on our website. Here’s what’s in the new issue: [...]
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Kelly Kosefeski, a teacher from Fort Collins, Colorado, is the recipient of the 2010 Charney Scholarship. Kelly plans to use the award to take the Responsive Classroom Level II course in Washington, DC, this August. She took Responsive Classroom Level I a few years ago, when she was a third grade teacher at St. Anne’s – Belfield School in Charlottesville, Virginia, and says it was “the single most important professional development that I have ever participated in. I am a better teacher, mother, and colleague because of it… now I don’t think I would ever teach without it.” [...]
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Are you ready to take an intermediate or advanced Responsive Classroom course, but don’t know how you’d pay for it? The recipient of this year’s Ruth Sidney Charney Scholarship will be awarded a tuition-free spot at a Responsive Classroom week-long institute this summer. If you’re eligible, apply soon! The deadline is this Friday, March 12.
Continue reading Charney Scholarship Reminder
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Are you ready to take an intermediate or advanced Responsive Classroom course, but don’t know how you’d pay for it? You could win a free spot at a week-long institute this summer by applying for the Ruth Sidney Charney Scholarship. [...]
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