Guy's Edu Blog

 At the Literacy Research Association meeting in Arizona, I attended a session on Climate Justice ( ecology and literacy ). A few weeks late...

Freddy Hiebert currently of TextProject , Emily Hayden of Iowa State and I recently published an empirical paper about patterns of silent ...

I am an avid podcast listener. I listen to fiction podcasts such as Fictional , the Moth . I listen to a whole host of non-fiction podcast...

The NAEP results came out this week. They did no show much improvement in closing the gaps. In fact, there is now growing public discussio...

My students showed up to class.  Smiling,  energetic,  purposeful.  Most with bags full of stuff. Less than third had devices (other than ph...

Today is Read across America day . This morning I watched my son Oren (11) read right after he got up. He is rereading for the ??th time the...

This week we held our annual iPads in the Classroom workshop. Laurie and I used last year's work as a foundation but added many new co...

This post started out as a post about getting large systems to move forward with EdTech and notions of frontier. The more I thought about ...

Last week I participated in the first phase of Reading/ Language Arts standards writing organized by the Nebraska department of education...

The Bridge is a new FX TV show that I picked up on demand recently. The topic of a thriller around the border crossing between the US an...

We have used iPads in the Reading Center all summer. I decided to include unedited comments of some of my students who ag...

Recently I have been working on home literacy environment and came across the Home Literacy Environment Questionnaire (HLEQ) by Griffin and...

Photo from Akhila's Blog I usually focus of the problems of integration teacher quality etc. But at the heart of what we do as educa...

My six years old son has been asking me to help him spell lately. "Dad" he shouts from the general vicinity of the TV "ho...

I am spending a few days in Trinity College in Oxford as part of the World Literacy Summit. We are also trying to create a declaration going...

So I thought I would pick some of the sessions related to arts integration that looked interesting to me. Hope to see y'all there. ...

In Nebraska snow is still falling and I am wondering about friendships, projects and relationships. In a word back to our networks that beco...

We have a class of practicing and future teachers who are all learning about arts integration into the elementary classroom right now. The f...

I was invited to participate in the process of developing ideas for the Sheldon statewide art education program. The language arts focus wi...

I sat all Friday morning with Mindy Amy and Kristen with the explicit goal of looking at kindergarten student Art and trying to come up with...