In my previous blog, I addressed how to match our instruction to the South Carolina College-and-Career Ready Assessment (SC READY) and help students think more deeply about analyzing…
When Willow Morningside visited Emma Martel’s class, she wanted to know just what was being taught at Wyoming Indian Elementary on the Wind River Reservation that would cause…
In my last blog post, “Reading Instruction Non-Negotiables,” I shared a list of reading non-negotiables that are paramount to effective reading instruction. As we begin the second semester…
As professionals, we can all agree that the goal of school-based coaching is to improve student learning by providing teachers with continuous, relevant, and job-embedded support. But what…
In “What Is an Educative Curriculum?” (the first post in this blog series), we defined an educative curriculum. Now that we have explored the definition, let’s take a…
Last October I sat in a library crowded with middle school teachers on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota as they observed a reading conference with a rambunctious…