This workshop invites participants to explore trauma-informed teaching practices that benefit all students and contribute to a "compassionate" teaching environment. It begins with an overview of trauma, its impact on learning, and trauma-informed teaching principles before addressing strategies teachers can use to support trauma-informed teaching. Participants should bring one story of how trauma has impacted their teaching as well as a policy, document, or practice used frequently in their own teaching.   View Recording & Access Slides ... View more

In this webinar Renee Shea, Robin Aufses, Megan Pankiewicz, and Kate Cordes will reflect on the new AP® Language Scoring Guide and the 2021 AP® Exam results and discuss ways to prepare for the 2022 exam. They will also discuss how we can utilize available tools to engage our students beyond preparing for the exam and get them actively reading and analyzing.   View Recording & Access Slides ... View more

When Faulkner stated, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” he could have been providing a preview into the inflection point today’s students face. Whether through remote learning or in-person classes in 2021, this generation of students will need to be prepared to address critical social, economic, and cultural issues, as well as define their role as active citizens who shape them. In this webinar, BFW English authors Renée Shea, Robin Aufses, Kate Cordes, and Larry Scanlon will discuss how American Literature & Rhetoric offers opportunities to engage with the past in order to frame—and more deeply understand—the present. In particular, attendees will be introduced to how American Literature & Rhetoric’s underlying philosophy, structure, themes, features, and chosen texts guide this study of America’s key writers and thinkers. American Literature and Rhetoric  ... View more

Whether you teach on-level, Honors, Pre-AP®, you want all of your students to leave your 10th grade class ready for AP®, college, and beyond. In this webinar, BFW authors Carlos Escobar, John Golden, and Renée Shea will examine textbook and teacher resources that help scaffold and differentiate skill building for deeper student learning. They will also review key updates to Advanced Language & Literature, Second Ed. that were made in response to your feedback. Advanced Language & Literature  ... View more

The authors of Foundations of Language and Literature discuss the range of pre-AP classes and making certain that all students can engage with the text ... View more

For fifteen years, Bedford, Freeman & Worth High School Publishers has focused on delivering top quality resources to support AP® teachers and students, including the soon-to-be released Literature & Composition, 3e and the brand new Ideas in Argument textbooks.   ... View more

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Dive into our Pre-AP® 9/10 program. Learn more about our 9th grade program Foundations of Language & Literature. Learn more about our 10th grade program Advanced Language & Literature.   Advanced Language & Literature  Foundations of Language and Literature  ... View more

Why the authors created the text Backmapping from AP Equity I Equity II Current and engaging topics Chapter structure and central texts Chapter structure and conversations Contemporary nature of Conversations Reading workshops Writing workshops Advanced Language & Literature  ... View more

1. Author Introductions 6. Foundational - What does it mean? 11.Chapter 3 16. Conversations & Central Texts 21. Grammar 2. Backmapping from AP 7. Genre Organization 12. Chapter 4 17. Workshop 1 22. Teacher Support 3. Creation of the Project 8. Opening Chapters 13. Differentiation 18. Workshop 2 23. Teacher's Edition 4. Advisory Board 9. Chapter 1 14. Student Choice 19. Workshop 3 24. Assessments, Rubrics, & Projects 5. Equity and Access 10. Chapter 2 15. Chapter Structure 20. Argument & Exposition     Foundations of Language and Literature  ... View more

According to Carol Anne Tomlinson, differentiation is not a series of strategies or tools, but “a teacher’s response to learner’s needs.” She identifies three main responses for intervention for struggling learners and extension for advanced learners: content, product, and process. In the attached guide, we'll look at differentiation in Foundations of Language and Literature and Advanced Language and Literature. Also attached is a presentation by John Golden, that further examines differentiation in these two texts and its importance! Foundations of Language and Literature  Advanced Language & Literature  ... View more

In the attached slide deck, Robin Aufses discusses the power of visual images and the questions to ask your students when analyzing them.  ... View more

In the attached guide, Kate Cordes discusses the benefits of vertical teaming and an intentionally scaffolded approach using BFW Textbooks with 9th-12th Graders.    Advanced Language & Literature  Literature & Composition  The Language of Composition  Foundations of Language and Literature  ... View more

We can't wait to connect with you at an APSI®! Watch this video to see how we've got you covered this summer, and then click below to access more resources. I'm attending an APSI®        I'm not attending, but still want resources! ... View more

Pre-AP to AP English: Using the BFW Pre-AP to AP ELA Series to Meet the New CB Requirements View the attached document to see our alignment examples across the ELA series. ... View more