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Top Posts of 2019

Read the most popular posts of the year!

Student Achievement Partners
By: Student Achievement Partners
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Thank you to all of the authors of who have contributed their expertise, insights, and ideas to Aligned this year. Here are the top 25 most popular posts published in 2019.

  1. Using Data Binders to Increase Student Independence — John Silverthorne
  2. On Curriculum: How Pinterest and TpT Exacerbate Inequity — Jon Gustafson
  3. Kids Gift Us with Their Time — Bryan Drost
  4. Most Misunderstood Math Standards in Grade 2 — Angie Miller
  5. Using Exit Tickets Strategically — Tika Epstein, Cathy Carter-Shide, Morgan Stipe, Karen Hernandez, Dina O’Brien
  6. Yarn Number Line: A Lever to Develop Fraction Understanding—  Jennie Beltramini, Jody Guarino
  7. Are We Teaching Fractions Correctly? — Jennie Beltramini
  8. Choral Counting: A Lever to Develop Fraction Understanding — Jennie Beltramini, Jody Guarino
  9. Planning the Small Group Reading Lesson — Dr. Deborah Glaser
  10. Robust Vocabulary Instruction — Jon Gustafson
  11. Three Simple Steps to Empowered Word-Learning — Kenny McKee
  12. Most Misunderstood Math Standards in Grade 1 — Angie Miller
  13. Desmos in the Math Classroom — Nick Corley
  14. Creating Choice Boards to Meet the Needs of Every Student — Tika Epstein
  15. Developing Math Language Routines — Jack Dieckmann, Renae Skarin
  16. Providing Feedback on Student Writing — Zackory Kirk
  17. What Makes a High-Quality Diverse Text and How to Get These Texts Into Your Classroom — Jill Eisenberg
  18. Common Mistakes with Student Writing Prompts — Joey Hawkins
  19. Designing Useful Writing Prompts – Joey Hawkins
  20. On Your Side to Beat the Summer Slide — Jenci Spradlin
  21. Math Instructional Routines: Creating Opportunities for Students With Disabilities to Grapple with Grade-Level Math — Grace Kelemanik, Amy Lucenta
  22. Student Closing Statements — Celia Jimenez
  23. Press Play — Jon Gustafson
  24. I’m Passionate About Curriculum Because I’m Passionate About Pedagogy — Jana Beth Francis
  25. Quality Instructional Materials or Quality Professional Learning Opportunities for Teachers? — Renae Skarin

And don’t miss our top 5 most popular posts published pre-2019

  1. Giving Students a Choice with Their Learning — Tika Epstein
  2. Supporting All Learners with Complex Texts — Carey Swanson
  3. Using Content and Language Objectives to Help All Students in Their Learning — Shanthi Kumar
  4. Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals as an Educator — Susan Hitt
  5. Limiting “Teacher Talk,” Increasing Student Work! — Tori Filler

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About the Author: Student Achievement Partners is a nonprofit dedicated to improving student achievement. Our central priority is to significantly impact literacy and mathematics outcomes for K-12 students nationally, with a particular focus on accelerating academic progress for students who face barriers of racism or poverty. We serve as an advisor to educators around the nation as they align content and instruction to academic standards in literacy and mathematics. We focus on increasing the availability of high-quality, standards-aligned instructional resources; increasing awareness and selection of those resources by educators; and building the capacity of educators to align instruction for all students to challenging standards. Our day-to-day work supports all facets of coherent, content-focused instructional systems that reflect the latest research on what works for raising student achievement. We support individual classroom teachers, districts, states, partner organizations, publishers, and many others to provide students with the rigorous academic experience they deserve.