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  • How California’s DEEP Schools Use SIPPS Tutoring to Challenge the System and Fill Gaps

    How California’s DEEP Schools Use SIPPS Tutoring to Challenge the System and Fill Gaps

    Southeastern San Diego’s Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership (DEEP) currently partners with school leaders and staff at four San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Lincoln Cluster schools to strengthen Tier 1 literacy instruction, expand coaching, professional learning and small group literacy tutoring.  Although some of their partner schools have implemented SIPPS® for 10 years, not all…

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  • What’s Missing from Your MTSS Framework? It Might Be Alignment Across Tiers

    What’s Missing from Your MTSS Framework? It Might Be Alignment Across Tiers

    Instructional alignment across tiers is a critical but often missing ingredient in many RTI/MTSS implementations. To fix this, schools must make instructional alignment a key criterion when selecting curricula.

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  • What Should Students Do While You Teach Small Groups? (Without Resorting to Busy Work)

    What Should Students Do While You Teach Small Groups? (Without Resorting to Busy Work)

    One of the biggest challenges of small-group instruction has nothing to do with the students sitting at your teacher table. Instead, it’s the constant worry about what’s happening in the rest of the room. We’ve all been there—trying to focus on a phonics lesson while keeping one eye on a student across the room who…

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  • The Brilliance of SIPPS Author, the Late Dr. John Shefelbine

    The Brilliance of SIPPS Author, the Late Dr. John Shefelbine

    The late Dr. John Shefelbine, renowned reading expert and developer of the Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words (SIPPS) program, recognized that for young readers—and particularly for multilingual learners—every second of instructional time must be leveraged for both decoding power and linguistic growth.

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  • How Knowledge Building and Instructional Design Develop Independent Learners

    How Knowledge Building and Instructional Design Develop Independent Learners

    In their most recent edWebinar, Dr. Taylar Wenzel and Dr. Analexis Kennedy explore the role of knowledge building, small groups, and deliberate practice in fostering independent learning. Students are empowered and become self-reliant when educators focus content delivery on strategically selected text and intentional feedback. 

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  • 5 Playful Early Math Activities to Share with the Families You Serve

    5 Playful Early Math Activities to Share with the Families You Serve

    Early math experiences should remain developmentally appropriate, building on children’s interests, creating opportunities for discovery through play and connection, and avoiding pressure to focus too heavily on formal academic skills.

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  • How to Implement a Walk to Read Model: A Leader’s Guide to Schoolwide Literacy Transformation

    How to Implement a Walk to Read Model: A Leader’s Guide to Schoolwide Literacy Transformation

    If you’re a school or district leader looking for a proven, scalable way to improve literacy outcomes, the Walk to Read model deserves serious attention. Schools that have implemented it—Nystrom Elementary, Pedley Elementary, and the school featured in Elana Gordon’s “Walk to Read 2.0: The Well-Oiled Machine Strikes Again”—have seen some of their highest-ever proficiency…

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  • Why Literacy Success Depends on More Than the Science of Reading

    Why Literacy Success Depends on More Than the Science of Reading

    The Three-Sciences Framework elevates and expands the science of reading, strengthening it by connecting it to two other important sciences: learning science and instructional science. Far from disparaging the science of reading, the intent is to elevate it and make it more robust by connecting it to these two other important sciences.

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  • What Is Learning Science and Why Does It Matter for Literacy Success?

    What Is Learning Science and Why Does It Matter for Literacy Success?

    Learning science is interested in how people learn. It clarifies the understanding of how the brain selects, processes, stores, and retrieves information. It tells us how instruction should align to make sure that students are able to store what they are learning in long-term memory so that they can retain and retrieve it.

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  • What Is Instructional Science and Why Does It Matter for Literacy Success?

    What Is Instructional Science and Why Does It Matter for Literacy Success?

    A comprehensive approach to literacy integrates the three sciences: literacy science, learning science, and instructional science. It cultivates curiosity and encourages an open mindset regarding future research. This final article builds upon our knowledge of literacy science and learning science, focusing on instructional science and the importance of teaching to minimize cognitive load.

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