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Themed Booklists

School Shootings: Trying to Understand the Unthinkable

Helping readers find empathy, sympathy, and understanding are lofty goals for YA authors who delve into the tragedy of school shootings. Told from multiple perspectives, this collection brings together many voices helping young adults process the unthinkable. 

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About Teaching Reading

How One School District Transformed Its Community

Through Universal Design for Learning and a model of inclusivity, the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation helps all students, including students with autism, succeed together.

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Accelerated Learning

Taking Stock: Data-Driven Acceleration

What data drives decisions made in your classroom and school? Let’s take a closer look at the data you may already collect and data you might consider as you push to accelerate learning.

Up With AdLit

Who wrote these famous words (Hint: He wrote the Common Sense Papers)?

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Unlock the Past to find out who, and learn more about using historical quotes as well as other creative ways to engage students in learning about about history and civics. 

Book Nook

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Looking to add to your MG/YA bookshelf? Here’s what we’re reading this month. Click on the book cover to learn more. Happy reading! 

Read and Tweak

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We hope you will read along with us and consider tweaks you can make in your instructional practice. Click on the book cover to learn more.

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How AdLit Are You?

In Aru Shah and the End of Time, what kind of animal is the Pandava sisters’ mentor/guide?

Mama says I always liked words; that I was talking before I could walk, and reading and writing before I even got to kindergarten. For some reason, I like poems ... I like making words fit together like puzzle pieces, and coming up with the perfect rhyme.

excerpt from Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero by Kelly J. Baptist

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