The end of the school year brings a lot of excitement. It is a time for celebrating students’ growth, achievements, perseverance, and accomplishments. While students often spend those last few weeks of school looking ahead—to summer, to vacations, to the next step in their education— teachers will find it beneficial to encourage students to look […]
The end of the school year may be in sight, but one of the final hurdles, perhaps the most strenuous one, is on the horizon—state testing season. Around this time, students in Maryland and across the country are gearing up for hours of testing. These standardized assessments are typically spread across multiple, consecutive days. However, […]
April is National Poetry Month, which may be cause for celebration or cynicism—poetry does tend to polarize people. For students, especially, poetry is sometimes seen as daunting or elusive. Young readers are quickly turned off when they feel like they can’t find the “true meaning” or interpret the secret message within the poem. However, for […]
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