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Centering What Matters to Children: How to Connect Your Teaching to Your Students’ Passions and Inquiry Questions
How do you decide what to focus on in your teaching? Our Kids, Books & Anti-Racism series speaker Vivian Vasquez starts by observing what her students care about.
Teaching for Fluency All Day, Every Day
Here are a few tips to integrate intentional teaching for fluency, without adding anything new to your day.
New Diverse Titles to Add to Your Classroom Library
Inspired by the first session in our Kids, Books & Anti-Racism Series, Literacy Coach Mary Cronin shares a few book recommendations of her own.
Facilitating Conversations about Race: Kids, Books & Anti-Racism Series
Jennifer Orr, our next Kids, Books & Anti-Racism Series featured speaker, discusses how books can serve as a starting point when facilitating conversations about race.
Carla España: Promoting Access and Equity Through Literacy
Looking back on the first session of our annual Kids, Books & Anti-Racism Series, professor and author Carla España focused on how to teach in a way that’s inclusive to children from different language backgrounds.
Drawing: An Important Part of the Writing Process
When students draw before writing it helps them visualize what they want to say. They include details in their drawings that they will later express in their writing using words.
Ensuring Strong Reading Skills for Grades 3-6
Foundational skill learning does not end in primary grades. Students in grades 3-6 require ongoing instruction in phonics, spelling and word study.
Our Top Posts from 2023
As the year winds to a close, let’s pause and reflect on the wealth of learning and collaboration that has enriched our Center in 2023. Check out these standout blog posts!
Spring 2024: 8-Week Online Graduate Courses
Stay cozy this spring and improve your career with an online course, where you can learn at your convenience.
Three Reasons Why a Writer’s Notebook is an Important Tool for Writers
Encouraging your students to keep a writer’s notebook can nourish their informational and literary writing all year.
Upcoming Professional Development
Tutoring That Works! (Complimentary Awareness Session)
What does it take to make literacy intervention effective? Join us for a complimentary webinar to explore the characteristics of effective tutoring interventions and learn what your school or district can do to ensure lasting impacts for readers who need support.
Literacy Collaborative: Next Generation (Complimentary Awareness Session)
Designed for today’s schools, Literacy Collaborative: Next Generation model provides a quick-start to improving student outcomes, focused on building teacher capacity by training an in-house literacy coach/ teacher leader and by providing direct professional learning support to teachers and administrators.
The New Benchmark Assessment System 2.0 (System 2, Levels K-Z)
In this two-day institute learn how to use BAS 2.0 to pinpoint students’ reading behaviors and instructional needs with word-solving, fluency, and comprehension.