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Literacy/ELL

How high achievers could pay the price for restrictions on teaching about race

Matt Zalaznick -
State lawmakers scrambling to restrict the teaching about race and racism, LGBTQ issues and other topics risk seeing their schools lose advanced placement classes.

Beating back book bans: How to keep a challenge from becoming a crisis

Matt Zalaznick -
Teachers make careful choices when it comes to books and sharing their rationale can go a long way toward allaying parents' concerns, experts say.

How to better engage families of English learners and special ed students

Matt Zalaznick -
Empowering your staff to connect with parents should only be the first step in your district's goals for deeper family engagement.

Rapid rise of ‘gag orders’ reveals a new appetite for K-12 censorship

Matt Zalaznick -
A growing number of proposals seek to restrict teaching about LGBTQ identities and issues, including one could put teachers at risk of criminal charges.

3 instructional strategies that support the science of reading

Liana Roth -
Setting students up to become proficient, critical readers is at the core of early literacy, and essential for introducing other subjects and skills.

Will renewed efforts to ban books from schools backfire? Yes, some say

Matt Zalaznick -
Efforts to remove books from schools may signal two outcomes: a slide into a new era of intolerance or an explosion of student interest in the very books being challenged.

5 ways SEL helped elevate our district from a predicted “F” to a solid “B” status

Brandon Hubbard -
We continue to use our SEL curriculum to help build mental frameworks for resiliency, overcoming obstacles, and helping students believe in their own success.

Why schools may be facing criminal prosecution over content of library books

Matt Zalaznick -
Texas districts now face a criminal investigation into the "availability of pornographic material that serves no educational purpose" as the state moves to more rigorously regulate the content of library books.

What reading skills should be taught and the best way to teach them

Cindy Jiban -
We don't have time to teach based only on good intentions and hope. We need to tap into the research evidence on how we can best help all students read with strong comprehension.

How wellness and soft skills are helping students conquer COVID learning gaps

Matt Zalaznick -
"Unexpected learning" is the phrase educators at Sevilla Elementry School West Campus in Phoenix prefer to learning loss as they help students recover from COVID's disruptions.

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