Engagement is not about a gimmick or a one-time thing. It is about sustaining attention. Motivation demands more than just an energizer or quick, fun activity. Here are three things you can do this summer to boost student engagement at any grade level with any kind of curriculum.

Read this blog to get easy-to-implement tips for self-care, and how to bridge to your life outside the classroom with what goes on for within your classroom.

All language communities share common goals, to communicate effectively with one another to meet personal and collective purposes. Developing academic language is similar. What makes social language experiences so successful and what can we learn from those experiences to support language learning in school and classroom contexts? Read this quick blog to get tips and activities for guiding the language learning process in school.

There is something very special about gathering students around to read a great story, and even better when that story has the power to illuminate shared experiences and bring us closer together as a community. Read this blog to get three easy-to-implement, meaningful strategies for building an interactive read-aloud that will integrate social and emotional concepts with literacy activities.

As far as hot topics in literacy go, the Science of Reading would make the top of the list. If you google the term, you get a myriad of results, from trainings to programmatic promises. In an effort to support all teachers align their classrooms to the Science of Reading, let’s examine three considerations that can greatly impact student achievement by ensuring that evidence-based opportunities exist in every classroom.

Research tells us that reading proficiency is highly correlated with the amount of reading that students do. Former classroom teacher and district curriculum specialist Alan Becker describes his experiences with fictional texts and how he used these engaging texts as a doorway to teach students complex comprehension standards.