{"id":893,"date":"2009-03-27T21:58:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T04:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2013-08-02T19:59:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T23:59:32","slug":"classroom-essential-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/27\/classroom-essential-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Classroom Essential Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever see an advertisement for something and want to cry because you had a similar idea and someone beat you to it? That&#8217;s how I&nbsp;felt today when&nbsp;I pulled my copy of the NCTE&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncte.org\/magazine\"><em>Council Chronicle<\/em><\/a> out of my post office box this afternoon. There on the back cover is a splashy ad for &quot;The Teacher&#8217;s Essential Guide Series.&quot; It&#8217;s a Scholastic endeavor by Jim Burke. There are books on several topics, including <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.scholastic.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/ProductDisplay_67594_-1_10001_10002\">Content Area Writing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no Jim Burke. Maybe that was the problem. If I were, when I turned in the proposal for a similar series for NCTE about four years ago, perhaps I could have scooped Scholastic. Oh well. Maybe I should just write books, and forget about proposals in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever see an advertisement for something and want to cry because you had a similar idea and someone beat you to it? That&#8217;s how I&nbsp;felt today when&nbsp;I pulled my copy of the NCTE&nbsp;Council Chronicle out of my post office box this afternoon. There on the back cover is a splashy ad for &quot;The Teacher&#8217;s Essential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-ep","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17150,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/17150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}