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Why Some Readers Never Catch Up
What Schools Must Do Differently to Break the Cycle of Reading Struggle There is a heartbreaking pattern happening in schools every single year. A student struggles in reading in Kindergarten or Grade 1. The school notices. Support is provided. The child makes some...
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Lesson Planning: 3 Instructional Strategies for ESL Students
Students whose native language is something other than English are sometimes called English as a Second Language (ESL) students or English Language Learners (ELLs). If this is your...
Get to know the 3 tiers of Response to Intervention
“Intervention” is a popular buzzword in education, but you may have heard it so many times that you’ve forgotten its true meaning and intent. Response to Intervention, also known as...
5 Tips to Mitigate Learning Loss for Dyslexic Students
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented challenges for children and families, particularly those who suffer from learning disabilities. One group, in particular, children...
5 Evidence-Based Strategies to Mitigate Learning Loss
When schools reopened in the fall of 2021, we were all optimistic about being able to provide uninterrupted classroom instruction. We all thought that the next step would be to...
How To Engage Parents To Support Literacy Instruction
I am sure you have heard some version of this question from school leaders, teachers, and parents, “What is going to be done to address the loss of instruction to mitigate learning...
Struggling Readers: 4 Reciprocal Teaching Strategies
Learning Loss During COVID-19 With the ongoing coronavirus numbers, districts, and schools there is a lot of uncertainty about whether they will have to pivot to virtual or hybrid...
6 Strategies That Will Increase High School Graduation Rates
About 25% of high school students in the U.S drop out before their graduation day and in lower-income communities, the number of high schools dropouts is even higher as many of the...
Literacy Learning Loss: Evidence-Based Strategies That Work!
Morphemes, prosody, phonological awareness… you’re not alone if an elementary ELA lesson feels a bit more like rocket science. If it were easier, our society might not face such...
5 Strategies for Equitable, And Inclusive Classrooms!
In recent years, educators have been using data to inform courageous conversations about equity and inclusion to create school environments that work for staff, students, and...
Make Faculty Meetings More Productive: 8 Tips for Principals
Faculty meetings are notoriously known as the place where good ideas are lost and buried in a lot of other things that should have been sent in an email, but this does not have to be...
What Should School Leaders Do To Prevent Bullying (With Examples)
Would you believe that every day a child is suffering in a school because they are being bullied? Most schools discuss bullying at the beginning of each school year, and some schools...
What Should School Leaders Do to Support Students with Invisible Disabilities
Education has transformed over time and for the better. What was once a teacher-centered, authoritarian classroom has become a student-centered space where educators focus on...
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