Why Literacy Skills Grow Stronger when Taught in Connection, Not Isolation
Discover why integrated literacy instruction, not skill-of-the-week teaching, helps comprehension truly stick. Read the research-backed case for teachers.
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Bringing Literacy Lessons to Life
Discover how to transform your first-grade classroom with real-life connections, vocabulary, and structured lessons that boost engagement for every learner.
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Learning from Educators: Trust, Feedback, and Building Better Products
Discover why listening to educators, not just consulting them, is what turns feedback into real classroom change.
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Keeping Active Kids Focused: Movement-Based Strategies That Work
One teacher's movement-based strategies for keeping active, hyperactive learners focused and engaged all day long.
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What Counts as Compelling Evidence in Education?
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One study can't carry the whole evidence burden. Learn how to evaluate education program evidence using a portfolio approach.
From Fragmentation to Focus: Designing for Coherence in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
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Discover how coherent instructional systems align curriculum, assessment, and professional learning so teachers can focus on what matters most: student growth.
The Power of Connection: How Five Teachers Became Family—and Stronger Educators
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This Teacher Appreciation Week, discover how an educator professional community builds connection, fuels growth, and strengthens classroom impact—through the story of five extraordinary educators.
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Keeping Active Kids Focused: Movement-Based Strategies That Work
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An elementary school teacher shares movement-based strategies for active learners, from partner routines to room transformations that boost engagement.
Every Student Can Be a Superhero of Growth
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What happens when you let students own their data? At Arkansas Middle School, it sparked a movement—and transformed attendance, culture, and academic growth.
Instructional Agility Strategies Every Literacy Teacher Needs
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Every lesson has a moment when students need something different. The ADAPT framework helps teachers respond with agility—and intention.
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What Is i-Ready Inform? A Teacher's-Eye View
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A former classroom teacher explains how i-Ready Inform assessment works, why productive struggle matters, and what the data means for your child.
Clarifying the Conversation around i-Ready
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Ty Holmes joins The Education Gadfly Show to unpack the national conversation on ed tech and why purpose, not the tool itself, should drive classroom decisions.
Beyond Endurance: Rethinking Building Reading Stamina
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Discover what building reading stamina really means for literacy students—and why a varied text diet may develop more adaptable, lifelong readers.
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Why Literacy Skills Grow Stronger when Taught in Connection, Not Isolation
3-min. read
Discover why integrated literacy instruction, not skill-of-the-week teaching, helps comprehension truly stick. Read the research-backed case for teachers.
Bringing Literacy Lessons to Life
3-min. read
Discover how to transform your first-grade classroom with real-life connections, vocabulary, and structured lessons that boost engagement for every learner.
Learning from Educators: Trust, Feedback, and Building Better Products
3-min. read
Discover why listening to and partnering with educators, not just consulting them, is what turns feedback into real classroom change.