Breathing New Life into Book Clubs with Sonja Cherry-Paul and Dana Johansesn

Managing book clubs can be hard, but authors Sonja Cherry-Paul and Dana Johansen say that when they work, they create a culture of reading unlike anything else, and have the power to bring out the very best in our students. With their newest book, Breathing New Life into Book Clubs: A Practical Guide for Teachers, Sonja and Dana provide dozens of mini sessions that address common roadblocks and strategies to make book clubs work.

We started our conversation with identifying some of the hiccups that book clubs face…