While it’s the middle of summer right now, the start of the new school year is right around the corner. And school districts across the country are filling many...
Tag - Teaching Strategies
So, your district has adopted High-Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM). Now what? TEA defines full-subject high-quality materials as those that...
Formative Assessment is a teacher tool that’s sometimes overlooked but incredibly powerful tool. Formative assessments are a valuable piece of...
Classroom Instruction, Multilingual Instruction, Strategic Instruction
Help Struggling Writers Improve with Sentence Stems
Sometimes our students struggle with communicating, especially when writing is involved. But we can still support our students and help them improve...
Classroom Instruction, Multilingual Instruction
4 Speaking and Writing Strategies for English Learners
We really know something when we can teach it, right? English learners (ELs) at the beginning level of English proficiency struggle to explain their...
As teachers, our students come first. After all, our students spend more time in our classrooms than anywhere else. With the recent outbreak of Covid...