Tag: guest blogger
What role do graduations play in our growth?
By Guest Blogger on May 20th, 2013
It’s graduation season! (Even our own Megan is in on it — she graduates today with her Master’s degree in English and American Literature! Go, Megan!) Julia Graeper from our Classroom and Community Group is here with some thoughts about what thesemore… full post
Using Storia to navigate historical fiction with students
By Guest Blogger on May 16th, 2013
Fourth-grade teacher Laura Murray is here again with some great Storia ideas! Today, she’s talking about historical fiction. And who doesn’t love some good historical fiction? Thanks, Laura! History was never my favorite nor my best subjectmore… full post
Keep your books close and your libraries closer
By Guest Blogger on April 29th, 2013
A guest post from Russell Thomas, our Intranet director, on the role libraries have always played in his life. Growing up in the Bronx and moving from neighborhood I was always privileged to have a branch of the New York Public Library withinmore… full post
The editor of Spirit Animals speaks…and reveals the first book cover!
By Guest Blogger on March 25th, 2013
Hi On Our Minds Readers, I’m Zack Clark, the lucky editor of Scholastic’s fantastic new multiplatform series, Spirit Animals, launching this September. You might remember hearing about it in this previous OOM post about the series, or inmore… full post
Encouraging literacy, one event at a time
By Guest Blogger on March 15th, 2013
From book publishing and media to education and technology, literacy remains the cornerstone of all that we do here at Scholastic, and we take great pride in serving the needs of children, parents, and teachers. Last year, we announced the launch ofmore… full post
Why reading aloud to children is key to literacy
By Guest Blogger on March 5th, 2013
Guest blogger Souzanne Wright, Vice President, Program Development Strategy for Scholastic Book Clubs and a contributor to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, shares insight about the importance of reading aloud and a greatmore… full post
The jury is in!
By Lia on February 28th, 2013
February has been an exciting month here at Scholastic: in addition to revealing the first of seven new Harry Potter covers and celebrating Clifford the Big Red Dog’s 50th birthday, we’ve been eagerly awaiting the results of the 2013 Scholastic Artmore… full post
A multi-cultural adoption inspires a debut YA novel
By Guest Blogger on January 25th, 2013
Lovingly researched, The Fire Horse Girl by YA debut author Kay Honeyman brings to life 1923 China and San Francisco, and the extraordinary adventure of a fiercely independent 17-year old girl, Jade Moon. Booklist raved in a starredmore… full post
Mindful reading of nonfiction: “What I know, what I think I know, what I want to know”
By Guest Blogger on January 7th, 2013
Fourth-grade teacher Laura Murray is here again with some great Storia ideas! Today, she’s talking about nonfiction — and more importantly, how to get kids reading it mindfully. At school we are in the thick of one of our nonfictionmore… full post
An educator’s take on using Infinity Ring in the classroom
By Guest Blogger on January 3rd, 2013
Recently, James Dashner, author of Infinity Ring: A Mutiny in Time, visited the Rogers Public Schools in Arkansas. Jane Keen, a Gifted and Talented Facilitator there, wanted to share how she and her students incorporated technology into James’smore… full post
