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Category: Donalyn Miller

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

literacy, reading, teaching

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher’s expectation that students will read.

Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better human being.

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

children, education, school-reform, schools, students

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

children, education, school-reform, schools, students