1.3.23 How do students learn to read? We all want children to be able to read well so they can read all kinds of texts for understanding. How does this happen? What are the basic moving parts that describe how students learn to read... Read more
12.29.22 Revisiting classroom culture mid-year At the beginning of this school year, I was invited by superstar and design thinking wizard Katie Krummeck to imagine what it would look like to ask students to co-author classroom agreements from a... Read more
12.27.22 It takes a village to raise a child—and to champion SEL With the current controversy about what is taught in schools and how, it is imperative that we remember why a system of public education was established in the first... Read more
12.22.22 5 ways to use writing in the disciplines to support learning One day, while working with the interdisciplinary team at my middle school, my colleagues and I were discussing upcoming lesson plans, what had been working well in our classes, and where we were... Read more
12.20.22 What the research tells us about restorative justice in K–12 In “Restorative justice explained,” I introduced restorative justice (RJ) as a potential tool for transformation that schools can use to address the school-to-prison pipeline. Because of the... Read more
12.15.22 How to take the dread out of grading, scoring, and reporting: Part 2 In my last blog post, I shared my personal journey of shifting my grading, scoring, and reporting practices. I provided some background about why this topic is so important, offered some prompts for... Read more
12.13.22 How to take the dread out of grading, scoring, and reporting: Part 1 I can’t point to an exact moment when I realized that my grading and scoring practices weren’t empowering my learners. Rather, it was a gradual awareness that with just one score or letter, I... Read more
12.9.22 Learning Heroes leader shares advice on how to support post-pandemic student growth Students continue to rebound from the pandemic, with further narrowing of gaps between current-year and pre-pandemic achievement levels, according to new NWEA research. The analysis looks at fall... Read more
12.8.22 Literacy experts answer educators’ 10 most pressing questions about dyslexia In our webinar Dyslexia: What every educator should know about the most common learning disability, NWEA literacy experts Tiffany Peltier and Cindy Jiban took an evidence-based look at dyslexia,... Read more
12.6.22 The best of Teach. Learn. Grow. in 2022 Nearly three years since COVID-19 shut down schools across the US, things feel somewhat normal again. Kids are having field trips. Masks are optional most everywhere. No one is worried about running... Read more
12.1.22 Translanguaging as part of the writing process Like many in the US, I studied Spanish in high school as part of my graduation requirement. While in college, however, my motivation for continuing with the language became decidedly more personal.... Read more
11.29.22 Putting it all together: Real examples of how to integrate supplemental content into your core work If you’re a regular reader of Teach. Learn. Grow., you may remember that in September, I examined why teachers turn to online supplemental content and shared some resources for vetting the... Read more