(This thematic round-up first appeared as a guest post on www.pragmaticmom.com) Hop. Boom. Skiddily-bop. Bing! Let’s start the new school year in rhythm, shall we, with 10 books that connect kids to this music we call jazz. The jazz picture…
Letters from readers are especially sweet when they come from far away. From Kuwait in the case of this note from American teacher Alex Hogan and the students at her bilingual school: “This week at our school is ‘I Love…
Last week at this time, I was getting acquainted with Emporia State University, home of Kansas’s annual statewide Reading Recovery conference. Title of my luncheon keynote speech: “Teach Reading Like a Jazz Musician!” Jazz musicians specialize in what I call…