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Common Core State Standards: Aligned with Reading Apprenticeship
I was recently asked “Does Reading Apprenticeship address the new Common Core State Standards?“ The answer is “Yes!” In fact, they cite our work multiple times in the Standards, especially in relation...
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Bicycle Riding and Scaffolding Schema
I clearly remember learning how to ride a two-wheeler. I was in first grade and Mr. Haberstroh, my friend Terry’s father, took it upon himself to teach me. by Jana Bouc The first thing he did was...
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What Makes a School “Distinguished”?
Dixon High School, in California’s rural Central Valley, was just named a “California Distinguished School” in recognition of its sustained delivery of “rigorous education for all students and progress...
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Personal Schema Building
Literacy Coach Rita Ramstad of Portland, Oregon sent this query to our online discussion group for participants of Leadership Institutes in Reading Apprenticeship: I’m looking for...
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Reading Apprenticeship Professional Development Online?!!!
If you had told me a year ago that I would think of online Reading Apprenticeship professional development as a good step, I would have thought you were crazy. A hybrid of face-to-face and online?...
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Make Your Failures Visible
In my last blog post, “Herding Elephants,” I started a discussion of how to motivate people to change when change is hard. If a human being is basically a great big elephant of emotion being ridden by...
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Writing Apprenticeship in Reading Apprenticeship Classrooms
From time to time, teachers in our professional development institutes will ask, “What about writing? How does Reading Apprenticeship address students’ needs to develop as writers?” Two very important...
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Everything That I Know About Teaching and Learning I Learned From My Pilates...
A couple of years ago, when my son learned how to walk and then run and my partner and I realized that we would need to be able to chase him, we grudgingly decided to get back on that old “health and...
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Engaging a Campus in Reading Apprenticeship
Since fall 2008, our campus has been “exposed” to a new way of thinking about reading. Through many in-service opportunities, faculty here at Renton Technical College have learned about the Reading...
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Reading Apprenticeship Blog on Sabbatical
Dear Readers, Thank you for visiting and/or subscribing to the Reading Apprenticeship blog. As you may have noticed, we stopped posting to the blog around the same time we began intensive work on our...
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