Ruth NathanIt’s More Than Turning Lemons in Lemonade: The Usefulness of NowComment in the Classroom as Seen…Introduction: I am a retired school teacher and now a retired Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley (2023), but my life as a scholar is far from…Feb 16Feb 16
Ruth NathanMoving from a Subject (matter) to an Idea, Lesson Two: Realizing James Moffett’s Language-learning…With a Focus on the “Difficult Conversations” of our Time*Jun 16, 2023Jun 16, 2023
Ruth NathanMoving from a Subject (matter) to an Idea: Realizing James Moffett’s Language-learning Theory in…RUTH NATHAN, WITH WENDY SAUL AND GILLIAN MERTENSJun 6, 2023Jun 6, 2023
Ruth NathanLiterature Study Circles: Reading/Writing/Thinking about LiteratureAuthors’ Note: This post is part of an on-going project that will eventually include fifty chapters offering best practices across the…Apr 9, 2020Apr 9, 2020
Ruth NathanCognitive, Social and Emotional Skills Linked to Literature Study Circles* and OutcomesAs interpreted by the author from K. D. Samway and G. Whang, Literature Study Circles in a Multicultural Classroom, Stenhouse, 1996, and…Apr 9, 2020Apr 9, 2020
Ruth NathanFabulous Fridays: Memorizing and Performing PoemsRuth Nathan, Ph.D. and Mary Ann Frishman, with Roz WarrenApr 1, 2020Apr 1, 2020
Ruth NathanOne Way to Use Close Reading in Writing WorkshopAuthors: Ruth Nathan, Ph.D. and Mary Ann FrishmanMar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020
Ruth NathanVocabulary Development and the Morph-O-MeterStudent Exploration of Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes, with Thanks to Mary Colgan McNamara and her TeamMar 9, 2020Mar 9, 2020