Kylene Beers

2015-09-10

I’m always happy to spend more time in my home state of Texas and that’s happening this fall as I run three workshops in Texas. These workshops will all...

2015-08-11

If children need to learn vocabulary, they should read. If they need to develop fluency, they should read. If they need to learn about a topic, they...

2015-08-09

When I finish reading a book, I want to think about it and talk about it, and then I want to start reading my next book. Never have I closed the covers...

2015-05-08

Recently, on my Facebook page and Twitter page, I posted some results to a national survey Bob Probst and I conducted last year. The comments came flooding...

2015-03-28

This I believe: 1) Smart teachers can make the world better. 2) ALL children have a right to the education we too often believe is for only gifted and...

2015-03-26

By Kylene Beers Recently, one of my professional heroes won a huge award: The Global Teacher Prize. It was won by the extremely deserving Nancie Atwell...

2015-01-05

I often discover what’s popular long after everyone else. I found West Wing during season four. I just discovered The Good Wife. And, a couple of weeks...

2014-11-10

In July 2013, Bob Probst and I posted a survey on SurveyMonkey.com asking teachers in grades 4-8 to tell us about their teaching of novels and chapter...

2014-07-01

Dear Hobby Lobby Owners, I shopped at one of your stores once.  To be honest, I’m not a very artsy-craftsy type of person, so no longer shopping there...

2014-05-07

School dollars are precious and getting administrators to release some of them to support travel to state and national conventions can be difficult.&nbsp...