Literacy Essentials - The Stories
Literacy Essentials - The Stories
Regie Routman
Literacy Essentials by Regie Routman contains some wonderfully personal stories from the author's own lived experience as a devoted family member, friend, and educator. In this series, Regie narrates each of these stories and, in doing so, invites us to reflect on our lives as readers, writers, educators and parents.
Afterwords
A special message from Regie Routman
Oct 11, 2019
2 min
Equity: Story 13 - Advocating For Students
How to speak out for our underserved students and ensure they receive the instruction they need requires caring and courageous teachers. Be that teacher.
Oct 1, 2019
3 min
Equity: Story 12 - Being Known
A heartbreaking, but not uncommon tale, of an accomplished, kind woman who winds up unknown at the end of her life. Now her unique story is finally told and honored—just as each person's life story needs to be.
Oct 1, 2019
7 min
Equity: Story 11 - Expecting More And Getting It
This life story connects low expectations for patients in nursing homes to the low expectations for students in many schools - while urging us to do better.
Oct 1, 2019
4 min
Excellence: Story 10 - The Writing Life
A teacher and writer reflect on the habits and qualities of dedicated writers and how and why writing is a lifetime gift that binds hearts and minds.
Oct 1, 2019
4 min
Excellence: Story 9 - Becoming A Reader
It’s never too late to become a reader! In this podcast, the storyteller narrates her slow but proud journey to becoming an avid, curious, joyful reader.
Oct 1, 2019
4 min
Excellence: Story 8 - Gifts My Mother Gave Me
Through poetry writing, the author figures out—and finally appreciates-- the intangible but enduring gifts her mother, who died young, left her.
Oct 1, 2019
1 min
Excellence: Story 7 - Making Fruit Tarts
While a recipe or script can be helpful in a new venture, to become an expert and responsive chef or teacher those steps and framework have to be internalized.
Sep 27, 2019
5 min
Excellence: Story 6 - My Professional Learning Journey
The author details how she gradually shifted her beliefs and practices to ensure expert teaching, fidelity to the child, and advocacy for saner teaching practices.
Sep 27, 2019
11 min
Engagement: Story 5 - Feeling Smart
This story traces the journey of a learner-teacher who went from a compliant and complacent learner to an actively questioning, competent one.
Sep 25, 2019
8 min
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