Cognitively-Guided Instruction (CGI) is a student-centered approach to teaching math. It starts with what children already know and builds on their natural number sense as well as their intuitive approaches to problem solving.
The Antiracist Writing Workshop is a call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering artistic communities for a new millennium of writers. This is the kind of resource to read over and over again!
This book helped me solidify my belief in a more humane pedagogy. Paulo Freire does sublime work in helping educators understand the depth of our role as educators and the value of the interconnectedness of our shared humanity.
This book completely inspired me to be a better inquiry based teacher. It is comprehensive guide that helped me better understand how to support my learners through inquiry.
I read this book for a course and it provided me the essential elements of what it means to create a learning community in an elementary school. It is a powerful must read that helped reinforce my values.
This book has completely shifted the way I cultivate a culture of community in my classroom. It empowered me to give agency to my learners and help them better understand their complex identities as humans.
Guy Claxton provides great strategies on how to help learners be more independent and also provide best practices to teachers on why it is important to let go of the "control" of the classroom. The LPA has enriched my classroom and my learners.