by Jennifer Young | Oct 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
I love the work we do in schools! I love working with students. I love working with teachers and coaches and principals. I love watching kids work things out on their own. I love watching faces light up when they figure things out and connect the dots on their own. I...
by Jennifer Young | Jan 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Not long ago, I was working with my friend, Misty and her amazing fourth graders during their social studies/ELA block. She had been working hard to teach her kids to use previewing as a way to build quick understandings before reading—especially around longer,...
by Jennifer Young | Aug 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Most of us would agree that we learn best through experience—by doing ourselves what we are trying to learn to do. We know that to learn how to do anything, you have to actually do it. To learn to swim, you have to get in the water, pick up your feet, and move your...
by Jennifer Young | Jun 17, 2017 | Commentary
Just Reading…Seriously? Several years ago, I interviewed for a job. A couple of people on the interview panel asked me about a state-wide reading initiative that I had been involved in in the early 2000’s. Typical of these interviews, they wanted to know...
by Jennifer Young | Apr 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
“You Coming in my Room Today?” He was sort of holding up the wall, waiting in a loosely-formed line to go into his sixth-grade classroom. As I walked by, he spoke to me without moving his head off the wall. “You coming in my room today?” I stopped and...
