Multilingual learners are often described in classrooms as students who “need support,” a phrase that can unintentionally signal deficit rather than possibility. While support is essential, it must not come at the expense of rigor or access to grade...
Dear Teachers, It’s an exciting time to be a student, as multimodal learning invites all students to be readers, writers, and thinkers! Today, we leverage books, music, video, dance, drawing, and digital tools to provide a kaleidoscopic learning...
Literacy Assessment as a System, Not an Event invites teachers to look beyond isolated scores and see assessment as part of daily learning. This downloadable resource supports elementary teachers in using assessment as an ongoing instructional...
This school year at Janney Elementary, a school within the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), we made a major shift from a literacy curriculum we have used for more than 15 years to a new curriculum, one of four literacy curricular...
It is the beginning of our literacy block, and I’m taking a moment to watch students beginning the work of readers and writers. Secretly, it is my favorite time of the day, seeing them gathering their books, notebooks, booklists, and pieces of...
In this classroom resource, author and educator Angela Quezada Padron invites teachers to help students explore how stories can inspire real-world action. Using three picturebooks that feature strong author messages and calls to action, Padron...