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Topic of the Moment: Did you go to NCTE? Did you see Alan's panel session? Let us know your reactions to the conference!

Alan & the BookJam Team

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Jennah Watters

What are you teaching right now? 2 Replies

Started by Jennah Watters. Last reply by Emily Liebenberg 1 day ago.

Jennah Watters

Laurie Halse Anderson books being threatened with bans 9 Replies

Started by Jennah Watters. Last reply by Alan Sitomer Oct 3.

Jennah Watters

Obama and Duncan want kids in school longer 4 Replies

Started by Jennah Watters. Last reply by Joe Fatheree Sep 30.

Alex Kajitani- The Rappin' Mathematician

Hip-Hop in the Classroom is Here to Stay! 1 Reply

Started by Alex Kajitani- The Rappin' Mathematician. Last reply by Alan Sitomer Sep 25.

Jeremy Rinkel

Cellphones in the Classroom...A Nuisance or a tool? 5 Replies

Started by Jeremy Rinkel. Last reply by Joe Fatheree Sep 17.

Jennah Watters

College grad rate for minorities/low-income dropping 1 Reply

Started by Jennah Watters. Last reply by Isaac Sep 11.

Jennah Watters

How do you battle burnout? 8 Replies

Started by Jennah Watters. Last reply by Joe Fatheree Aug 13.

Alan Sitomer

Kids with heart... 2 Replies

Started by Alan Sitomer. Last reply by Jennah Watters Aug 7.

Alan Sitomer

How have the budget cuts affected you? 9 Replies

Started by Alan Sitomer. Last reply by Alan Sitomer Jul 31.

Rich Bordner

What a Bunch of Bullfeathers 17 Replies

Started by Rich Bordner. Last reply by Alan Sitomer Jul 31.

Blog Posts

Alan Sitomer

The exhilarated exhaustion

There comes a tiredness with having attended a big conference, a sense of exhilarated exhaustion that inevitably catches up to almost all attendees that do not live in the host city.

However, it’s the good kind of “spent”, the kind that comes with having tapped into a host of personal reserves.

For me, the draining derives as a result… Continue

Posted by Alan Sitomer on November 24, 2009 at 5:00am

Alan Sitomer

Teaching teens is good stuff

As we enter Thanksgiving week it really is a time for me to recognize how much my students mean to me. I truly am a better human being because they are in my life.

They make me smile, laugh, hurt, angry, and tear up. They also make me proud, ashamed, hopeful and fearful.

And sometimes they do this back to back to back as if it's all ha… Continue

Posted by Alan Sitomer on November 23, 2009 at 5:10am

Alan Sitomer

I am privileged to be at NCTE and more should enjoy the same.

Being at NCTE once again proves the point that mandatory conference attendance and professional development needs to become a prime focus if we are really going to elevate the performance of our schools.

I can't even begin to cover the amount of dynamic, sound, invigorating and readily appli… Continue

Posted by Alan Sitomer on November 21, 2009 at 5:30am

Alan Sitomer

Watch What You Tweet!!

So people are now being sued for libel based on the content of their tweets. And while the courts are struggling to keep up with technology -- and how free speech plays out in evolving social networking mediums -- there is a lesson for all to be learned, I believe, in the idea that "slande… Continue

Posted by Alan Sitomer on November 20, 2009 at 5:30am

Jennah Watters

Alan at NCTE

For those of you attending NCTE, Alan is on a panel discussion. Stop by and say hello! The BookJam booth is #429.

Session: E.08 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm 11/20/2009 Format: Panel
Room: Convention Center/Room 201A, Level 2 Topic: Reading
Level(s): General (proposals of interest at all instructional levels)
Title: Literacy Ain't for Wimps! Engaging 21rst Century Readers with Three Award Winning Young Adult Authors
Come hear how Gordon Korman, Sharon Flake and Alan Sitomer are connecting with teachers… Continue

Posted by Jennah Watters on November 19, 2009 at 10:37am

 
 

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For those of you attending NCTE, Alan is on a panel discussion. Stop by and say hello! The BookJam booth is #429. Session: E.08 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm 11/20/2009 Format: Panel Room: Convention Center/Room 201A, Level 2 Topic: Reading Level(s): Gene...
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November 18
Wow! I want to see Chuck P. perform this at a signing. I hear people are just crazed during his reading.
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Saw a tweet from author Chuck Palahniuk about this today. A teacher has been suspended for assigning Chuck Palahniuk's ground-breaking short story Guts out to his 11th grade students. Read more about his suspension and find out what you can do to...
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Too true, Jennah. And all the best thinkers in the world of teaching ELA agree on it.
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