Kelly Gallagher: 9 books
In the Best Interest of Students
Staying True to What Works in the ELA Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
What is in the best interest of our students? Is it teaching to the newest standards movement, like the Common Core? Teaching that prepares students to take a test? Or is it something more meaningful and authentic? In his new book, In the Best Interest of Students, Kelly Gallagher notes that there are...
Deeper Reading
Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Do your students often struggle with difficult novels and other challenging texts? Do they think one reading of a work is more than enough? Do they primarily comprehend at a surface-level, and are they frequently unwilling or unable to discover the deeper meaning found in multi-layered works? Do you...
Write Like This
Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high...
Succeeding Together?
Schools, Child Welfare, and Uncertain Public Responsibility for Abused or Neglected Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Growing attention has focused on the education of children in the child welfare system, particularly those in foster care, but ninety-two percent of children in the child welfare system stay with their parents and their educational needs receive little attention.
Succeeding Together? is an...
Pushing the Limits
How Schools Can Prepare Our Children Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
How do we prepare children for a future we can't even imagine?
Across Canada, a debate swirls around what our children will need to know in the face of huge technological, economic, social and political change. The question has become an ideological battleground, and there is a hunger for a...
Reading Reasons
Motivational Mini-Lessons for Middle and High School
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
"Why should I read?" Can your students answer that question? Do they have trouble seeing the importance that reading may have in their lives? Are they lacking motivation, both in academic and recreational reading? Do you think you can effectively teach reading strategies if students don't understand...
Readicide
How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools.
Titans of the Climate
Explaining Policy Process in the United States and China
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
How the planet's two largest greenhouse gas emitters navigate climate policy.
The United States and China together account for a disproportionate 45 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. In 2014, then-President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced complementary efforts to...
by Kelly Lin Gallagher-Roncace
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
The Jersey Devil isn’t the only supernatural entity that stalks the Garden State: Here are tales of pirates, patients, and prisoners, oh my!
Few places are as obsessed with the paranormal as New Jersey, and the area once known as West Jersey is a hotbed of supernatural activity. The ghost...