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3 Tips for Maximizing Your Summer Math Instruction

By: Danielle Battle, M.A.Posted 03/01/23
3 Tips for Maximizing Your Summer Math Instruction

With the shortened time frame of summer school, it's the perfect opportunity to reassess and strengthen the habits that contribute to successful math education. Read this blog to get great tips for Summer School.

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3 Best Practices for Your Summer School Literacy Instruction

Maximize Summer learning: 3 best practices for designing a literacy-focused Summer school program to help close gaps and prepare students for the next year.

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Summer School: 3 Considerations for Boosting Student Engagement

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.

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Teaching Language Starts with Our Students

By: Eugenia Mora-Flores, Ed.D.Posted 01/18/23
Teaching Language Starts with Our Students

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.

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Building on the Power of a Read Aloud

By: Carrie EicherPosted 10/06/22
Building on the Power of a Read Aloud

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.

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Aligning to the Science of Reading:  3 Considerations for Every Teacher

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.

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