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| Join educators from all over the state in the online Winter 2027 IRC Book Club! Choose one, two, or all three book clubs! Read, reflect on, and respond to Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. Jackson and/or The Commonsense Guide to Your Classroom Library: Building a Collection That Inspires, Engages, and Challenges Readers by Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp and/or Academic Languaging: Engaging Multilingual Students in Content Area Learning by Gisela Ernst-Slavit and Margo Gottlieb. Beginning January 17, educators will participate in online discussions for the next seven-weeks. With the Blood in the Water book club, participants will learn how to hold book clubs with their own middle grade classrooms based on this thrilling heart-pounding mystery packed with twists and turns that will keep readers guessing until the end. With the Commonsense Guide to Your Classroom Library book club, participants will receive advice on how to transform your classroom library into a true instructional partner to support your student’s growth as they become increasingly independent readers. With the Academic Languaging book club, participants will be given resources to empower and foster meaningful, culturally sustaining education to ensure multilingual learners comprehend academic content and thrive as confident, autonomous drivers of their own learning.
Participants who complete all assignments will be eligible to receive 15 PD clock hours for each book club. Required for participation:
Our book club is built on real reflection, open discussion, and learning from one another. For that reason, responses that are clearly generated by AI instead of written by you won't be accepted, and may result in removal from the group. Think of it this way: we wouldn’t accept a ChatGPT response from our students and call it authentic learning, so we shouldn't do it here either. AI can definitely be a helpful tool for brainstorming or organizing your thoughts, but your final posts should reflect your own voice, ideas, and experiences. We’re here for real human conversations, not a robot book club. Thanks for keeping our discussions honest, thoughtful, and uniquely yours! Register to participate in the book club today. Registration is FREE for IRC Members. The cost for non-members is $50, which includes IRC membership for one year. PLEASE NOTE: The cost of book is not included. |
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SAVE THE DATES AS REGISTRATION WILL OPEN ABOUT A MONTH PRIOR TO THE FUTURE IRC BOOK CLUBS!
SPRING 2027 BOOK CLUB will be held from March 21 to May 8, 2027 with choice of following books.
- Text Structures From Picture Books: Lessons to Ease Students Into Text Analysis, Reading Response, and Writing With Craft by Stephen Briseno, Kayla Briseno, and Gretchen Bernabei
- The Commonsense Guide to Your Classroom Library: Building a Collection That Inspires, Engages, and Challenges Readers by Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp
- Biliteracy & Cross-Cultural Teaching: A Framework for Standards-Based Transfer Instruction in Dual Language Programs by Jill Kerper Mora and Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes
SUMMER 2027 BOOK CLUB will be held from July 4 to August 21, 2027 with choice of following books.
- Text Structures From Picture Books: Lessons to Ease Students Into Text Analysis, Reading Response, and Writing With Craft by Stephen Briseno, Kayla Briseno, and Gretchen Bernabei
- AI in the Writing Workshop: Finding the Write Balance by Dennis Magliozzi and Kristina Peterson
- Integrated Literacy for Experienced Multilinguals by Tan Huynh and Beth Skelton