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254: Dusting Off an Old Practice to Make Reading Fun Again

As a life-long reader, English teacher Dan Tricarico wanted to bring the love of reading to his high school students, but the constant, irresistible presence of digital media made for tough competition. Rather than seeking out a high-tech solution, he brought back simplicity in the form of daily silent reading, and to his surprise, most of his students really took to it. In this episode, he shares his experience in the hopes that more teachers will resurrect this classic practice in their own classrooms.  Thanks to Alpaca and the School Me Podcast for sponsoring this episode. To read Dan's guest post and find links to his books, visit cultofpedagogy.com/silent-reading.

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  264: How Schools Can Support Neurodivergent Teachers

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  263: Five Skills that Get Students to Take Ownership of Their Learning

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  262: Three Fresh Strategies That Get Students Engaged With Texts

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  261: How and Why to Use Concept Maps

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  260: Seven Teaching Practices that Nurture Student Voice

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  259: Making Project-Based Learning Accessible for Everyone

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  EduTip 33: Answer more questions with questions.

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  258: The Power of Centering Student Exemplars

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  257: Bringing Joy into Our Schools: A Conversation with Gholdy Muhammad

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  256: Community Supplies in the Classroom: Clearing Up the Confusion

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  255: Before You Decorate Your Classroom, Here's a Better Idea

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  EduTip 32: Don't put kids in Charlie Bucket situations.

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  253: Fully Seen and Fully Known: Teaching that Affirms Disability

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  EduTip 31: Be the first dork.

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  252: Where Discipline Reform Has Gone Wrong (in Some Schools)