180 Days by Penny Kittle
Teaching is art-creation-and a curriculum map is only as good as the teacher who considers it, who questions it, and who revises it to meet the needs of each year's students. -Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle
Two teachers. Two classrooms.
One school year.
180 Days represents the collaboration of two master teachers-Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle-over an entire school year: planning, teaching, and reflecting within their own and each other's classrooms in California and New Hampshire. Inspired by a teacher's question, How do you fit it all in? they identified and prioritized the daily, essential, belief-based practices that are worth spending time on. They asked, Who will these students be as readers and writers after a year under our care?
What we make time for matters: what we plan, how we revise our plans while teaching, and how we reflect and decide what's next. The decision-making in the moment is the most essential work of teaching, and it's the ongoing study of the adolescents in front of us that has the greatest impact on our thinking. With both the demands of time and the complexity of diverse students in mind, Kelly and Penny mapped out a year of engaging literacy practices aligned to their core beliefs about what matters most. They share their insights on managing time and tasks and offer teaching strategies for engaging students in both whole class and independent work. Video clips of Kelly and Penny teaching in each other's classrooms bring this year to life and show you what a steadfast commitment to belief-based instruction looks like in action. 180 Days. Make every moment matter. Teach fearlessly. Empower all students to live literate lives.Penny Kittle, of Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, teaches freshmen composition. She worked 34 years in public schools as a teacher and literacy coach, 21 of those at Kennett High School in North Conway. She co-wrote 180 Days with Kelly Gallagher and is the author of Book Love and Write Beside Them, which received the James Britton Award. She also collaborated on two books with her tutor, Don Graves, and co-edited a collection of Graves' work, Children Want to Write, with Tom Newkirk. She is the president of the Book Love Foundation and was honored by NCTE's Conference on English Leadership with the Outstanding Leader Award.
Penny teaches graduate students at the University of New Hampshire Reading Institutes throughout the summer. She travels all around the United States during the year. Speaking to teachers in the United States, Canada, and occasionally even further afield on empowering students through literacy independence. She believes that both students and instructors benefit from curiosity, involvement, and deep thought in the classroom.
Penny stands on the shoulders of her mentors, the Dons (Murray & Graves) and the Toms (Newkirk & Romano), in her opinion that focused teaching in a reading and writing workshop results in the greatest student investment and learning. Visit Penny Kittle's websites, pennykittle.net and booklovefoundation.org, for additional information, or follow her on Twitter. Penny's kids produce a statement on how their reading choices have influenced them.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780325081137 |
| ISBN 10 | 0325081131 |
| Title | 180 Days |
| Author | Penny Kittle |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Heinemann Educational Books |
| Year published | 2018-03-22 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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