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Three Ways to Build Respectable Rapport

Adapting Curriculum in Your Environment

Using Data to Impact Student Achievement

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Designing Culturally Relevant Text Sets

Preparing to Teach in a Culturally Relevant Way

Parent Engagement and the Case for Instructional Rounds

Materials Adaptation

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To Teach the Truth

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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The Untapped Potential of Text Analysis

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

Research and Reflections

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What Does It Mean to Learn from a Mistake?

Preparing to Teach in a Culturally Relevant Way

Parent Engagement and the Case for Instructional Rounds

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Classroom Strategies

About the topic

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

See all posts

most recent articles

Three Ways to Build Respectable Rapport

Adapting Curriculum in Your Environment

Using Data to Impact Student Achievement

Tools and Resources

About the topic

Discover new tools and materials to integrate into you instruction.

See all posts

most recent articles

Designing Culturally Relevant Text Sets

Preparing to Teach in a Culturally Relevant Way

Parent Engagement and the Case for Instructional Rounds

Materials Adaptation

About the topic

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

See all posts

most recent articles

To Teach the Truth

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

Textbooks: Who Needs Them?

Standards-Alignment Information

About the topic

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

See all posts

most recent articles

The Untapped Potential of Text Analysis

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

Research and Reflections

About the topic

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

See all posts

most recent articles

What Does It Mean to Learn from a Mistake?

Preparing to Teach in a Culturally Relevant Way

Parent Engagement and the Case for Instructional Rounds

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Foundational Literacy Skills

Part 1

At the Foundation of Foundational Skills: Structured Phonics

Learn how structured phonics instruction is critical to literacy development and a necessary part of an ELA curriculum
03/17/17, Carey Swanson
Part 2

Supporting Our Youngest Readers: Teaching the Skills of Reading

Why using decodable readers can be powerful
01/12/18, Carey Swanson
Part 3

Adding Fun to Your Phonics Block

Incorporating strategies to make phonics time the best time of day
02/02/18, Christina Cotter
Part 4

How much time do you need to create a foundation for literacy?

One coach’s reflection on increasing the foundational skills block
03/21/18, Lauren Hurley Wilson

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