PD Educational Consulting

07/13/2022

Rather than attempt to micromanage how they use their language, we can guide students to the realization that they can decide for themselves when and how they code-switch.

04/01/2022

03/15/2022

EdWeek spoke to Jherine Wilkerson, who wrote a popular and provocative essay about not needing to love her students to be a good teacher.

02/05/2022

Fantastic mentor text resource: Penny Kittle’s "Notebooks: so many inspirations for writing" padlet: https://padlet.com/pennykittle/xytvgqza1hif5lf8

01/14/2022

This year, we wrote out an exploded moment instead of just watching one be narrated in a video. Photo: Pixabay Last Tuesday, I planned an activity for my seventh- and eighth-grade classes that work…

01/10/2022

I don't know about you, but I could use a chuckle!

12/20/2021

I mean, I just want to do this!

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10/13/2021

For Lucinda, a Chicana high school senior, the shift to online school—while not great for completing schoolwork—created new time and space for other ...

10/13/2021

Setting the Tone for the Day.

09/17/2021

Exciting news for high school writers: Amanda Gorman and Penguin Random House have teamed up to launch the Amanda Gorman Award for Poetry. The award will recognize a senior from a public high schoo…

09/09/2021

“It should sound like gossip”…Tom Newkirk is such a light.

From Shirley Jackson's ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’, of course.