Think about the last disagreement you had with someone. Without knowing a single detail about your disagreement, I’m pretty confident that the root cause, the way-down-deep-what- started-it-all cause, was miscommunication….
One way to teach very efficiently is to really understand what students already know and can do and tailor our instruction from there. While teaching to the “middle” will be…
Whether by choice or by force, teachers everywhere have recently adopted a new reading curriculum. In an effort to sell to the masses, these companies typically result in “curriculum bloat,”…
In a previous post, I shared one of the easiest, most effective strategies for simplifying narrative summary writing for kids. If you haven’t read that post yet, please take a…
On my X (Twitter) feed lately, I’m seeing a large amount of posts that advocate for teacher-dominated, whole group, explicit instruction. And it’s true–we do need to teach foundational skills–and…