After years in classrooms, research labs, and PD sessions across the country, Dr. Chase Young sounds off on the 10 things that still drive him crazy about literacy instruction — and what he hopes every educator hears instead.
Teams have traditions, inside jokes, and rituals that students carry with them long after the school year ends. Dr. Chase Young shares 10 simple, no-cost ways to build classroom culture — including the time his class dressed as punk rockers.
Two thirds of American nine and ten year olds cannot read proficiently — and those of us with the power to change that can't even feel the problem. It's time literacy was treated as a human right.
When I was in college, I ran over a cow. Yes, in my car. No, not on purpose. Yes, it was already dead. You see, most weekends I drove 30 miles home to work and to see my folks. One Sunday afternoon on my drive back to Centre College to Danville, KY, I got to a place where the road goes from 4 lanes to 2. So I was changing lanes. As a safe driver, I turned on my blinker, checked my side mirror, and then gave a look over my shoulder. All clear, I began to merge. When my eyes returned to the road, there was a full sized dairy cow laying in the middle of the road directly in front of me. I had no time to react, so I literally ramped the cow... (Continues in full article)
