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Classroom Strategies

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Explore classroom guidance, techniques, and activities to help you meet the needs of ALL students.

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Shaking Up High School Math

Executive Functions and Literacy Skills in the Classroom

Connecting and Communicating With Families to Help Break Down Barriers to Learning

Tools and Resources

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Discover new tools and materials to integrate into you instruction.

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Culture, Community, and Collaboration

Vertical Progression of Math Strategies – Building Teacher Understanding

“Can I have this? Can I have that?”

Materials Adaptation

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Find instructions and recommendations on how to adapt your existing materials to better align to college- and career-ready standards.

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Helping Our Students See Themselves and the World Through the Books They Read in Our Classrooms

Textbooks: Who Needs Them?

Standards-Alignment Information

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Learn what it means for instructional materials and assessment to be aligned to college- and career-ready standards.

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Let’s Not Make Power ELA/Literacy Standards and Talk About Why We Didn’t

What to Consider if You’re Adopting a New ELA/Literacy Curriculum

Not Your Mom’s Professional Development

Research and Reflections

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Delve into new research and perspectives on instructional materials and practice.

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Summer Reading Club 2023

Synergy between College and Career Readiness Standards-Aligned Instruction and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Children Should be Seen AND Heard

Achieve The Core

The e² Instructional Practice Framework™: Toward a Vision for High-Quality Instruction

07/07/23, Silvestre Arcos, Jennie Beltramini, Dr. Diana Cordova-Cobo, Carey Swanson

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Continuing the Journey: Piloting the Instructional Materials Landscape Analysis

A Conversation with Karie Mullassery and Sathya Seigel of South San Francisco Unified School District

06/14/23, Katie Keown, Karie Mullassery, Sathya Seigel

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The Development of the Landscape Analysis Process

A conversation with Joanna Yip of the English Learners Success Forum

06/07/23, Katie Keown, Dr. Joanna Yip

Instructional Materials Landscape Analysis

06/05/23, Jennie Beltramini, Kadiatou Coulibaly, Katie Keown

How the Text Analysis Toolkit Expands Both Teaching and Learning in Classrooms

02/14/23, Tina Starks

Text Complexity is…well…complex!

Shifting perspectives about high-interest, low-level texts.

01/26/23, Shanita Rapatalo

Challenging the Status Quo

How Chat GPT Can be the Key to Achieving Educational Equity

01/19/23, Zak Cohen

text books

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The Stories We Were Sold: Reflections on Knowing Better, Doing Better in Education

12/08/22, Carey Swanson

Developing Language and Literacy With Children’s Literature and Through the Lens of a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy

Why children’s literature fosters a culturally sustaining pedagogy

12/06/22, Jennifer Benitez

Sparking Engagement: Getting Silly to Find Joy

Creative ideas for building classroom community

12/12/21, Dr. Megan Olivia Hall

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Read Like an Artist

Using art to teach literacy

08/27/21, Dana Squires

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Art and Literacy Go Hand in Hand

How Doodles Academy art lessons prepare students to be good readers

08/24/21, Aaron Grossman

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Art is Key to a Culturally Relevant Education

An introduction to Doodles Academy

08/13/21, Tempest NeuCollins

Google Jamboard: Connecting Students, Curating Thinking and Learning

A tool for structuring discussion, supporting critical thinking, and fostering interaction

05/12/21, Jim Bentley

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Top Posts of 2020

Read the most popular posts of the year!

12/18/20, Student Achievement Partners

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Small Pivots to Access Complex Text Across the Curriculum

Reading strategies that help secondary students in all content areas

12/15/20, Sarah Brown

Finding and Teaching The Complexity In Read-Aloud Texts

11/25/20, Anne Lyneis

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Meet Students Where They Are Academically and Literally!

Three ways to use Edcite's Real-time Connect with students

11/20/20, Edcite

Ready to Disrupt the Canon?

A new on-demand learning experience

11/16/20, Kate Crist, Joy Delizo-Osborne, Tori Filler

Are We Forgetting About Fluency?

11/13/20, Anne Lyneis

Improving Accessibility for All Students

Remote Learning Tips and Tricks

11/06/20, Fishtank Learning

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Enhancing Remote Learning and Student Engagement With Online Tools

Five tools to make virtual learning more social for students

10/30/20, Aaron Grossman

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What Is “Content-Focused Professional Learning”?

The Professional Learning Core Content in Mathematics & ELA/Literacy

07/31/20, Kate Crist, Jun Li

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You Have a List of Culturally Diverse Texts. Now What?

Guidance on facilitating classroom lessons and discussions that push student thinking

06/11/20, Keenan W. Lee, M. Ed

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Digital Coaching Menus Bring the Professional Learning Principles To Life

Designing effective coaching sessions that reflect teacher needs

05/14/20, Kenny McKee

Family reading together as part of remote book club during remote learning

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Class and Family Book Tasting During Distance Learning

Designing reading activities to engage K-12 students at home

04/28/20, Tika Epstein

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3 Recommendations for Supporting Early Elementary Students Remotely

A kindergarten teacher shares strategies and advice

04/17/20, Lindsay Arnold

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Top 5 Resources for Learning Online

Free, standards-aligned resources to facilitate remote learning

03/20/20, Tika Epstein

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How Does Education Research Relate to My Practice?

Is your reading program working? What can you do to improve it?

02/14/20, Tori Filler, Carey Swanson

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Tidying Up

Instructional Routines for Whole-Class Reading and Writing

01/22/20, Jon Gustafson

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For the Love of Learning

How a focus on building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction can enrich ELA instruction and engage learners

12/08/19, Carey Swanson

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I See Me

Building a diverse classroom library with the help of First Book Marketplace

11/24/19, Tamika Peters

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What Makes a High-Quality Diverse Text and How to Get These Texts Into Your Classroom

Resources and guidance for educators

11/13/19, Jill Eisenberg

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A New Way to Consider Cognitive Demand in ELA Assessments

A Framework for Text Complexity in ELA and Reading

11/08/19, Katie Keown

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Laying a Solid Foundation of Literacy

Building Teacher Capacity with the Reading Foundational Skills

11/04/19, Darla O'Leary

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Planning the Small Group Reading Lesson

Teach and Guide

10/06/19, Dr. Deborah Glaser

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Quality Instructional Materials or Quality Professional Learning Opportunities for Teachers?

Support for educators serving English Learners

07/26/19, Renae Skarin

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Press Play

Using Podcasts and Documentaries to Supercharge Background Knowledge and Bolster Reading Comprehension

06/02/19, Jon Gustafson

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Three Simple Steps to Empowered Word-Learning

Using morphology, context clues, and outside resources to help students decipher word meanings

03/28/19, Kenny McKee

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Top Blog Posts of 2018

Here are our top 25 most-visited posts of 2018.

12/20/18, Student Achievement Partners

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Encouraging a Growth Mindset through Art

Strategies for moving beyond "follow-the-leader" style art projects and developing an art curriculum that supports student learning across subjects

10/26/18, Tempest NeuCollins

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Observing Reading Foundational Skills Instruction

Introducing a new tool to observe the components of foundational skills instruction

10/23/18, Carey Swanson

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Addressing Common Challenges with Student Writing

Why aren’t students successful writers and what can teachers do to help?

10/09/18, Zackory Kirk

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Building A Culturally Responsive Classroom

Why building a culturally responsive classroom matters for the success of ALL students

09/07/18, Jill Yamasawa Fletcher

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Engaging Students with #BookSnaps

Reinventing how your students discuss text within the classroom

08/30/18, Andrea Raines

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Formative Assessments and Feedback in the Digital Age

How implementing Pear Deck changed my classroom.

07/06/18, Jeff Crayton

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Inspiring Writers

A process for supporting writing practice with K-2 English Language Learners

06/22/18, Astrid Emily Francis