by Angela Maiers | Sep 18, 2021 | Blog
This post was co-authored by Nora Moran, a student at Northern Highlands High School in New Jersey. April 14th is Leaders for Literacy day, a movement started by the International Literacy Association in 2015 to bring attention to the plight of almost 800 million...
by Angela Maiers | Sep 8, 2021 | Blog
As parents, teachers, students, companies, and society, we emphasize competition. We tell our athletes to “win at all costs.” In business, employees hear “there is no room for failure.” We evaluate our students, and their teachers, primarily on their ability to pass...
by Angela Maiers | Sep 6, 2021 | Blog
I’m honored, privileged and quite frankly, ecstatic(!) that Classroom Habitudes is now a manifesto on ChangeThis! ChangeThis is a site birthed from an idea by Seth Godin and operated by the folks at 1-800-CEO-READ ( click through to download the manfiesto) Among some...
by Angela Maiers | Sep 6, 2021 | Blog
Imaginative reading involves more than just getting lost in the text. As readers step into the roles of the characters and move around in their world, the text literally comes alive in their mind. Here is one of the 45 mini-lessons from Classroom Habitudes. Classroom...
by Angela Maiers | Sep 6, 2021 | Blog
Every week, I have the opportunity to engage in amazing conversations with students. Each time, I walk away thinking about how truly smart kids are. I am blown away by their thoughtfulness, insight, and potential. In this weeks lesson with first graders we talked...
