Calendar — Peg Grafwallner

Please join me at WSRA, IRA, or SoMLA this spring. I hope to see you there...

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Embedding Literacy Across the Curriculum These strategies for teaching literacy across all content areas can help educators ensure that students build the skills they need.

All of us are literacy teachers now. Let's do this right.
These strategies for teaching literacy across all content areas can help educators ensure that students build the skills they need.

www.edutopia.org/article/teac...

Effective PD Within the School Day Six tips for ensuring that professional development delivered during school hours is genuinely useful to teachers.

For whomever needs to hear this...it's second semester. Let's get this right:
www.edutopia.org/article/effe...

How to Develop Self-Reliant Learners Supporting students in developing self-regulation, executive function skills, and self-agency can improve their ability to succeed in school.

Supporting students in developing self-regulation, executive function skills, and self-agency can improve their ability to succeed in school.
Dpn't forget to check out the reproducibles available in the article.
www.edutopia.org/article/deve...

How to Develop Self-Reliant Learners Supporting students in developing self-regulation, executive function skills, and self-agency can improve their ability to succeed in school.

www.edutopia.org/article/deve...

How to Develop Self-Reliant Learners Supporting students in developing self-regulation, executive function skills, and self-agency can improve their ability to succeed in school.

How to Develop Self-Reliant Learners
www.edutopia.org/article/deve...

Building staff morale? Invite your team to identify their “principles of practice.” This process not only uncovers the values driving your team’s teaching but inspires fresh ideas and deeper connections.

What is your Principle of Practice?
principalproject.org/building-sta...

Effective PD Within the School Day Six tips for ensuring that professional development delivered during school hours is genuinely useful to teachers.

Principals, this one is for you!
www.edutopia.org/article/effe...

This is for all the first-year teachers who are being asked to coach, direct, chair, manage, initiate...www.edutopia.org/article/getting-comforta...

Avoiding the Biggest Classroom Management Mistakes Larry Ferlazzo with Anne Jenks, Peg Grafwallner, M.Ed; and Kevin Parr Classroom management is a perennial challenge for teachers. What are the biggest mistakes we often make and how do we avoid them? ...

"I wanted the students to like me and be my friends. I tried to create a classroom where we were a community, not necessarily realizing that structure needs to be implemented before community."
www.bamradionetwork.com/track/avoidi...

Language That Encourages Learning Rather than telling students the work they’re about to do will be ‘easy,’ be honest about some difficulties they may face and how you’ll support them.

Rather than telling students the work they’re about to do will be ‘easy,’ be honest about some difficulties they may face and how you’ll support them.
www.edutopia.org/article/lang...

10 Suggestions for the First Day Back — Peg Grafwallner Many of us go back to work this week after enjoying some rest and relaxation. We hope our students had the same opportunity to relax with family and friends; but, unfortunately the sad reality is that...

"We hope our students had the same opportunity to relax ... the sad reality is that many of our students will come back to us exhausted and anxious. As a result, we have to be ready for what they need and deliver it with empathy and compassion."
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A "First Day of School" Letter to Every Parent...www.peggrafwallner.com/insightsapproaches/2017/...

Parents, We Teachers Really Want to Work with You! — Peg Grafwallner I wrote this article almost 9 years ago (reprinted with permission from JSOnline, August 27, 2005), and I believe it is just as timely now as it was then.  With Common Core, standards based gradi...

An oldie, but a goodie www.peggrafwallner.com/insightsappr...

As an English teacher…

Mark your calendars now! I hope to see you there!

"WSRA 2026 Conference Chair and the 2026 Program Committee members are pleased to inform you that your proposal:
Moving from Writing Rigor to Writing Vigor! has been accepted for Thursday, February 5, 2026."
www.wsra.org/conference-i...

a woman is reading a book in a living room . ALT: a woman is reading a book in a living room .

We can do this!
Reach out and let's get this literacy party started!
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Change your language; change your mindset!

Let's get writing!

Let's get writing!
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A little graphic to help...

A Framework for Lesson Planning Using learning intentions and success criteria can help teachers ensure that their activities align with what they want students to know.

A Framework for Lesson Planning

Using learning intentions and success criteria can help teachers ensure that their activities align with what they want students to know.

www.edutopia.org/article/fram...

Let me help you get started!

Are You Asking Questions, or Teaching Inquiry? - Solution Tree Blog Asking questions—good questions—is, arguably, the basis for a curious, passionate classroom. There is no way to explain that feeling when a classroom is erupting in enthusiastic discussion. It is magi...

"... asking questions and teaching inquiry are often misconstrued as the same thing. If I’m asking thought-provoking, open-ended questions, I must be teaching inquiry. Not necessarily."
www.solutiontree.com/blog/are-you...

Language That Encourages Learning Rather than telling students the work they’re about to do will be ‘easy,’ be honest about some difficulties they may face and how you’ll support them.

"Rather than telling students the work they’re about to do will be ‘easy,’ be honest about some difficulties they may face and how you’ll support them."
www.edutopia.org/article/lang...

Before Reading — Peg Grafwallner

If you're like me, you LOVE graphic organizers, reproducibles.
Here are three literacy links with a bunch of resources for you.
Before Reading - www.peggrafwallner.com/strategies-b...
During Reading - www.peggrafwallner.com/strategies-d...
After Reading - www.peggrafwallner.com/strategies-a...

Let's talk about assessments!
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Clearing the Path for Developing Learners This book will provide teachers with the tools they need to embed core literacy skills into every subject matter in a way that supports developing students in becoming better readers, writers, thinker...

Let's do this!
www.solutiontree.com/clearing-the...

ILA's Blog Literacy Daily is a space to connect educators, students, and leaders with the latest news, ideas, tools, strategies, and research in literacy instruction.

The E4 Approach focuses on: Embrace, Expect, Engage and Encourage. The guiding questions are meant as a way for the observer to notice, ask or wonder about a specific component.
Consider using this resource as it is, or modify it for exactly what you need!
www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literac...

Applying Literacy Standards Across Content Areas High school teachers in all classes can help students strengthen their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.

High school teachers in all classes can help students strengthen their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.
www.edutopia.org/article/appl...
Let's work together to increase comprehension in all content areas.
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