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Instructional Leadership in SFC: Why It Matters, What to Do
September 11, 2025
Today’s guest post shares wisdom from Daryl Michel and Dawn Brookhart, authors of the upcoming book Instructional Leadership in Student-Focused Coaching. Building on Hasbrouck & Michel’s widely used guide Student-Focused Coaching,…

5 Key Things You’ll Learn in Joan Sedita’s New Book on Adolescent Literacy
September 9, 2025
Teachers are already talking about Joan Sedita’s upcoming guidebook on The Essentials of Adolescent Literacy! Joan is the expert behind the bestseller The Writing Rope and the Keys to Adolescent…

10 Quotes on Teaching Multilingual Learners
August 19, 2025
Post updated on 8/19/25 How can schools support educational equity, academic success, and positive social-emotional development for the increasing number of multilingual students? Our authors have answers—and today’s post is…

6 Activities That Enrich Student Vocabulary
August 6, 2025
(Updated on 8/6/25) Well-developed vocabulary knowledge sets the stage for your students' reading comprehension and academic success. With some planning—and activities like the ones in today’s post—you can provide students…

10 Easy, Low-Cost Scaffolding Tools for Your Classroom
August 5, 2025
Updated on 8/5/2025 Scaffolding tools (temporary supports gradually faded when students no longer need them) are a highly effective way to meet the needs of diverse learners and help all…

7 Activities that Promote Oral Language Skills in ELLs
August 1, 2025
Classroom interaction with teachers and peers is a crucial component of English language development for students classified as ELLs. Excerpted and adapted from the new edition of Wayne Wright’s bestselling…

9 Tips on Spelling Instruction for Students with Dyslexia
July 3, 2025
Today’s post was adapted from “Teaching Spelling” by Suzanne Carreker, a chapter in Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills, Fourth Edition, edited by Judith R. Birsh, Ed.D., CALT-QI, & Suzanne…

6 Don’ts for Increasing Students’ Reading Fluency
June 26, 2025
*Today’s post has been adapted from the chapter “Fluency in Learning to Read” by Katherine Garnett, in Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills, Fourth Edition, edited by Judith R. Birsh…

7 Tips for Building a Classroom Library on a Budget
June 22, 2025
A well-stocked, diverse classroom library can help your students develop a lifelong love of reading and expand the key literacy skills you’re teaching every day. Budgets may be tight these…

Improving Comprehension with Collaborative Strategic Reading
May 20, 2025
Today’s post has been adapted from the chapter “’Now It Makes Sense!’ Best Practices for Reading Comprehension,” by Stephen Ciullo and Colleen Klein Reutebuch, in the book Fundamentals of Literacy…