Ms. Miller’s Wild Ride

08/12/2012Interviews, Readingnerdy book club, Reading, summer reading, YA novelsMiddleWeb

Thanks to a popular blog and a 5-star Amazon book, career teacher Donalyn Miller has become a national champion of YA reading. We talk with her.

Raising Real-World Writers

08/08/2012Book Reviews, Writingauthentic writing, Kelly Gallagher, literacy, real-world teaching, Stenhouse, writing skillsMiddleWeb

In Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts teacher-author Kelly Gallagher shows us how to teach the real-world writing skills our students urgently need, says literacy coach Francesca LoGiudice.

Where Are the Math Girls?

07/14/2012Interviews, Mathematics, STEM Subjectsgender issues, girls and math, girls and STEM, math applications, number senseJohn Norton

A single teacher in a school can be the decisive factor in getting girls excited about mathematics, says teacher-author Jessica Shumway in this MiddleWeb interview.

Video Shortcodes

Normal (old-style) Video Shortcodes This is the normal way display videos by using a Flash-based player such as FlowPlayer. Since this is using normal videos use Flash, these do not play in iPhones and iPads. [infobox]Use the HTML5 video shortcode instead unless you really want to display Flash[/infobox] SWF Shortcode Explanation [pre][video_swf width=”560″ … Continue reading Video Shortcodes →

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