In this video I walk you through how I use a bump up wall to grow kindergarten and first grade writers. I show the rubric, the zero to five writing samples, and how I coach students to “bump up” their ...

In her early days as a kindergarten teacher, Katie Felix had a troublesome realization: “There is only one of me and 24 of them. How can I teach them when I’m not sitting with them?” Seventeen years ...

Chuck Kinder, captured in retirement in Key Largo, Fla. Chuck Kinder was a widely known author whose novels got favorably reviewed in national publications. But closer to home, Kinder was also a ...

Parents of preschoolers are constantly asking how old their child should be when entering kindergarten. Here's my advice: Don't wait until the last minute to make the decision. Parents of three-, four ...

[Note: In this guest post, two renowned former kindergarten teachers who wrote about the extraordinary literacy successes of children in their classrooms (Feldgus & Cardonick, 1999) show how today’s ...