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Blog entry posted December 11th, 2009 by Maria Utevsky

I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you one of the great partnerships that is happening at Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan. Below is an excerpt from YKOM parent newsletter The Compass.
 

Blog entry posted September 30th, 2009 by Gina Scala

As an organization we are honored and excited to say that our Chief Education Officer Sheena Hervey is in New Zealand to attend the New Zealand Reading Association Conference where she is receiving the National Citation for Outstanding Work in the Field of Literacy from the national executive of the association and was the keynote speaker on the second day of the conference. Sheena was on the national executive of the NZRA for a number of years when she was...

Blog entry posted July 16th, 2009 by Jane Piper

There is a common misconception that literacy models which integrate student choice and a variety of text types (i.e. including multimedia texts from popular culture) only further serve to confound students’ limited exposure to influential and canonical texts from earlier eras. This, however, does not need to be the case.

Blog entry posted January 8th, 2009 by Mike Staunton

I would like to propose a name change and call it 'formative teaching', because that's what it really is.  The use of the word 'assessment' next to the word 'formative' can be misleading, given...

Blog entry posted September 12th, 2008 by Maria Utevsky

Bienvenidos a Costa Rica! and welcome to the IRA 22^nd World Congress on Reading, “Reading in a Diverse World” held this year in San Jose. I feel very privileged to have been one of the over 1450 people from 37 countries (mostly from the Americas, but with generous sprinklings from Oceania and Eastern Europe) who attended. It was especially compelling to be in the company of so many dedicated people who work in the most challenging of circumstances and for whom