literacy
Early Learning
35 Must-Read Children’s Books for Back to School
Today is National Book Lovers Day! Do you know a kiddo who loves books? Or a kiddo who doesn’t love books, but you think they just haven’t found the right ones? Check out these 35 great options.
EdTech
Smart Review | An Epic! Review From a Teacher and Parent
Whether for classroom or home use (or ideally a combination of both) the Epic! digital library is an excellent place for students, teachers and families to explore and grow a love of reading together.
Post-Secondary
Why Rigorous Literacy Instruction is Essential for Lifelong Learning
By: Eileen Murphy Buckley. High-skilled jobs require a very specific set of lifelong learning skills. The most valuable are the abilities to consume information and think about it critically.
Personalized Learning
3 Ed Leader Recommendations for Building Phonics Instruction
In a new publication titled "What Really Matters in Teaching Phonics Today: Laying a Foundation for Reading", Dr. Jim Cunningham explores the foundational reading skills that must be developed in order for the “building” of reading and writing to be strong.
Place Based Education
A Literature Class in a Museum: A Place-Based Experience
This multi-authored post shares a number of perspectives on a college literature class on Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and some of their contemporaries, which was taught on-site at the Stowe and Twain house museums in Hartford, Connecticut.
SEL & Mindset
Curing a National Epidemic with Physical Literacy and SEL
By: Steve Boyle. We need to make a major change when it comes to improving the overall health of our children, and the answer lies in a physical literacy and social-emotional learning movement addressing the whole child.
Personalized Learning
Superintendents Reflect on their Move Beyond Test Scores
By: Todd Brekhus. To truly understand and support their students’ literacy, these two superintendents have adopted an innovative method they call “measuring reading with reading." Learn more about their strategies here.
Early Learning
Four Ways Adults Can Support Child Literacy
By: Mitch Center. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, uncle, mentor or even an older sibling, you have the opportunity—and responsibility—to help the kids around you fall in love with books. Here's how.
Leadership
Focusing on Literacy for 21st-Century Skill Building
By: Dr. Joseph C. Barrow, Jr. In 2015, Georgia’s Department of Education replaced end-of-year assessments with a new test to incorporate more rigorous writing and literacy standards. Here's how our district strategically addressed this challenge.
Equity & Access
What Kids Are Reading: Five Ways to Close the Achievement Gap
By: Jack Lynch. Reading is the foundation of learning and is an activity students can enjoy inside and outside of the classroom. Here are five ways we've found from our research that reading can help to close the achievement gap.