Javaka Steptoe was awarded the 2017 Caledecott for his book Radiant Child
Month: January 2017
Talking Walls 2017 paperback edition
Talking Walls Discover Your World paperback costs $9.95. Orders can be placed now for a May publication date.https://tilburyhouse.com/
Africa Cup of Nations 2017 begins in Gabon on 1/14… A great geography lesson.
Find and circle the names of the competing countries or fill in the names of the competing countries. Finals are on February 5th.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=africa+cup+2017
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=african+cup+of+nations+2017+fixtures
What’s going on in this picture?
Happy New Year…. I am looking forward to my work in 2017
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I look forward to my work in the Portland, Maine schools in 2017. Kirsten McWilliams , an ELL Teacher and I will present two content VTS workshops to teachers. Before the workshops I will spend four days in Kirsten’s classes introducing VTS via Talking Walls 
Teachers will learn and practice content Visual Thinking Strategies, a discussion based teaching and learning strategy that works with all content area subjects. It encourages students to use prior knowledge and their perceptions to understand visual and written content. It is a learning cycle that asks students to engage in all four of the literacy domains of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Visual thinking strategies is based on teacher paraphrase of academic and precise vocabulary with call and response. It is a breakthrough strategy to use with any student but particularly with ELLs.
