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Welcome to Episode 2 of The Book Love Foundation Podcast! And thank you for joining us in this celebration of teaching and the joy of learning. Subscribe in iTunes Donate to the Book Love Foundation Episode 2 Show notes You can learn more about the Book Love Foundation at Booklovefoundation.org, where you can also make [...]
Welcome to Episode 2 of The Book Love Foundation Podcast! And thank you for joining us in this celebration of teaching and the joy of learning.
Episode 2 Show notes
You can learn more about the Book Love Foundation at Booklovefoundation.org, where you can also make a donation. 100% of the money you give to the Book Love Foundation puts books into classrooms. We ve given away $100,000 in three years, but the need is far greater. Help us reach more young people with the power of reading.
Book Love Foundation awards are given to teachers like you. If you re listening to this show, you re already committed to kids and the power of reading. You can apply for a Book Love Foundation grant by visiting booklovefoundation.org. Applications for 2016 are due March 1st.
CONVERSATION SEGMENT
Ben Wilkinson has been an English teacher for six years, most recently at Knoxville Catholic High School in Knoxville, TN. He also teaches Creative Writing, and won a Book Love Grant in 2014. Find him on Twitter at @readlikeawolf.
Claire Gibson is a high school English teacher and instructional coach at Adams City High School in Commerce City, CO. You can find her on Twitter @Gibby86, read about her reading and teaching life on her new blog atateacherwhowrites.com or e-mail her at clairegibson9@gmail.com.
Karlen Shupp has taught English since 1999 and currently at Trumbull High School in Trumbull, CT. She has also taught at Pomperaug Regional High School and Western Connecticut State University. She presented at the NCTE Annual Convention in 2014 on modeling and in 2015 on assessments linked to Independent Reading.
Shupp, along with Stephanie Jalowiec and Jim McCaffrey is part of the Reading (R)evolution, a group of three educators dedicated to sparking the love of reading in students. They have a blog at https://3lonenuts.wordpress.com and an active Twitter account @THSReadRev.
Karlen can be reached at shuppk@trumbullps.org, @THSteacher, and https://sites.google.com/a/trumbullps.org/shupp-english/
Steph can be reached at jalowies@trumbullps.org and on Twitter @MrsJalowiec.
Jim can be reached at mccaffrj@trumbullps.org and on Twitter @mccaffths.
Beth Hughes teaches high school English at Massachusetts’ Wakefield Memorial High School. You can find her on Twitter @MsBethHughes, read her musings on lifelong learning at msbethhughes.org and her passion to reintroduce her students to reading at fortheloveofreading.org, or email her at bhughesud@gmail.com.
BOOK TALK
Here are the books from this episode s book talk, courtesy of Serena Kessler:
All American Boys, by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
I am Number Four, by Pittacus Lore
The Divergent series, by Veronica Ruth
Ender s Game, by Orson Scott Card
Rangers Apprentice, by John Flanagan
Jandy Nelson books, especially The Sky is Everywhere.
Ellen Hopkins books
(That s two episodes in a row for both Jandy Nelson and Ellen Hopkins, in classrooms 2,000 miles apart )
Serena Kessler is a high school English teacher at Romulus High School in Romulus, Michigan. She blogs at wholechildren.wordpress.com and can be reached by email at serenakessler@gmail.com.
STUDENT STORY
This episode s student story was from Lynn Hagen, a high school literacy teacher and Reading Specialist in Columbia, Missouri. Lynne is a passionate advocate for choice reading for high school students. You can follow her reflections on teaching at Blue-skyteaching.blogspot.com or on Twitter @lynnahagen. You can reach her by email at lhagen@cpsk12.org.
Lynn s student mentioned liking:
The Bluford High series
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Teachers will learn from Penny Kittle, Julia Torres, past Book Love Foundation Award recipients, and Book Love Foundation friends like Donalyn Miller, Teri Lesesne, Kylene Beers, Tom Newkirk, and Kelly Gallagher and others as they share thinking and strategies around book love that they use in their own teaching.
Conversations cover classroom topics like book choice, independent reading, access to books, conferring, teacher collaboration, classroom libraries, reading workshop, that help teachers put reading at the center of their teaching.
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