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5 Things You Need To Know To Be A Highly Effective Educator or Teacher
My mother’s voice reading aloud to me started me on this path. I still remember the sound of her voice reading “Blueberries for Sal” to me as a very young child and my delight in that story and in the way that experience connected us.
Telling Our Own Tales
When we use story to help students tell their own narratives, literacy roadblocks and anxieties dissolve for even the most hesitant of learners and teachers are able to cultivate world-changing writers.
BronxNet at World Read Aloud Day 2024
BronxNet takes an inside look at World Read Aloud Day 2024, led by Pam Allyn with Chancellor David Banks and Mayor Eric Adams at P.S. 123.
NYC Public Schools Press Release: World Read Aloud Day
NEW YORK – Yesterday, New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) celebrated World Read Aloud Day with events in all five boroughs.
Dewey Celebrates World Read Aloud Day
On Wednesday, February 7th, the Dewey team celebrated the joy of reading aloud throughout New York City and beyond. Between schools, libraries, and online read-aloud events, we observed first-hand how reading aloud can hone listening skills, spread joy, and strengthen connections between readers.
Harlem World: WRAD 2024
Yesterday, Dewey, an organization that creates educational products with the goal of sparking joy in reading and writing, celebrated World Read Aloud Day (WRAD). They did this with some very special role models and superheroes.
PR Newswire: World Read Aloud Day
Dewey's CEO and the creator of WRAD, literacy expert Pam Allyn, and New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks and Mayor Eric Adams celebrated the power of reading aloud at local schools.
LitWorld: World Read Aloud Day 2024
Pam Allyn created World Read Aloud Day® (WRAD) with her team at LitWorld in 2010 to celebrate the power of reading aloud to create community and amplify new stories, and to advocate for literacy as a foundational human right.
BronxNet Previews World Read Aloud Day
Kibin Alleyne is joined by Pam Allyn, the Founder of World Read Aloud Day, to discuss her initiative that encourages parents and their children to read aloud together and create a habit of lifelong reading.
Scholastic Launches MathCamp
Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education and media company, today announced its expanded investment in summer learning, advancing its commitment to providing students, educators and families with year-round learning that not only closes the gap but propels student achievement.
Welcome Our Multilingual Families: Create an Environment of Belonging, Achievement, and Inclusion
We have a profound opportunity to create new ways to welcome our newcomer families and to empower them to be the very best allies their children have to become high-accomplishing, high-achieving students in our districts.
5 Things That Should Be Done To Improve The US Educational System
We need to improve assessment processes, and start to be more core values driven. The tests are limited in what they can assess, and the word “value” is in the word “evaluate.”
Pinckney Community Schools - Focus On Literacy
In Livingston County, there is a significant focus on early childhood literacy, aiming to ensure all children are proficient readers by the end of third grade.
Tell Your Story: Teaching Students to Become World-Changing Thinkers and Writers
Effective, culturally responsive, joyful literacy instruction begins by valuing student stories—the stories our students carry with them from their home to the classroom and back again every day.
Celebrate the power of story on World Read Aloud Day 2023
Founded in 2010 by LitWorld, World Read Aloud Day celebrates the power of reading aloud to create community, amplify stories, and advocate for literacy as a foundational human right. Since its beginning, World Read Aloud Day has grown into a global movement of millions of readers, writers, and listeners from over 170 countries.