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1. Allegories Allegories are extended metaphors that illustrate an important attribute of the subject. Many fantasies, including the Harry Potter books, are allegorical in nature. They have enough relationship to the real world that readers inductively begin making comparisons, as when Rowling describes the various prejudices that exist among the different kinds of magicians and […]

Once everyone has been sorted, a prefect for each house must be assigned or elected. At Hogwarts, prefects are chosen by the faculty and are usually students who have exhibited exceptional grades and a mature sense of responsibility. If you are appointing the prefects, you might want to go through some kind of a process—maybe […]

The secret to any good celebration is I to involve as many students as possible and to give them genuine responsibilities and encouragement to be creative. Literacy celebrations offer students, and teachers, the opportunity to have fun and show off what they have learned during their deeper exploration of various literacy studies. I have had […]

What Peter calls Structured Process is not so much a discrete practice as it is a group of practices that appear in conjunction with each other and the belief that nearly all students can learn, a paradigm of teaching that is quite complex. Three decades of helping my Chicago students learn even one part of […]

I have found this essay to be difficult to conclude. I’d like to close with a snappy solution that teachers can use on Monday, but abandoning the universal idea of a best practice makes that impossible. Ultimately, I think that the best resolution to the question of what constitutes a “best practice” is to shift […]