Help your students anticipate and construct counterclaims to improve their persuasive writing.

...we identified multiple potential components of rigor based on our review of research and then asked over 400 teachers and leaders to vote on them.

When our learning experiences, explanations, examples, and plan for generating evidence is clearly articulated, there is a greater potential that we engage in deliberate practice—a focused, systematic approach to accelerating learning.

But what seems to be missing from the conversations about quality reading instruction is the sentence-level work that students must do to understand what they read.

In today’s complex educational landscape, one element consistently emerges as essential for accelerating student learning: clarity.

Take a look at the tried-and-true instructional approach of the interactive read-aloud. We cover 7 key characteristics of interactive read-alouds and how a strategy used by primary teachers can enhance print awareness by drawing attention to the features of print. 

Far too often, elementary models of reading are applied to adolescents, without much success. Models based on extensive reviews of research in early childhood may not serve adolescents well.

These opportunities provide students with the chance to see connections between what they are learning and the world outside their classroom and to recognize that they overcome challenges, developing their efficacy.

The teaching workforce is getting older, and turnover is high, which speaks to the importance of teacher-retention strategies.

As a new teacher, you may not be sure what works best yet, and that’s ok! For now, a good rule of thumb is to consider your colleagues and borrow from their bags.