What To Do When Your Book Clubs Just Aren't Working with Sonja Cherry-Paul and Dana Johansen

What do you do when you’ve tried book clubs, and they just didn’t work?

Today on the Heinemann Podcast we’re joined by Sonja Cherry-Paul and Dana Johansen, co-authors of “Breathing New Life into Book Clubs.” In a recent article on the Heinemann Medium blog, Sonja and Dana wrote about some of the common roadblocks that teachers encounter when leading book clubs. They say that “organizing clubs, managing them, determining the instruction that students need, and trying to empower students to take the reins of their own reading journeys, can feel daunting. But we cannot throw in the towel.” 

We started our conversation asking, “why can’t we give up on book clubs?”