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Literacy/ELL

Education in 2024: Partners break down 8 big trends

Matt Zalaznick -
Collaboration will grow between K12 and the business community as academic growth is carefully assessed as AI drives the edtech evolution.

Get ready to carefully assess growth and interventions in 2024

Matt Zalaznick -
Tutoring, summer school programs and double-dose math will join an emphasis on strengthening student-teacher relationships as academic recovery takes on even more urgency.

Book bans are the new “Scarlet Letter” anti-censorship group warns

Matt Zalaznick -
Authors are becoming regular targets of copycat bans after just one of their titles is removed from a library's shelves, according to the new "Spineless Shelves" report from PEN America.

Reading as a remedy: One of the best ways to build resilience in students

Matt Zalaznick -
Reading and access to books help children build resilience and can have a positive impact on overall mental and physical health, the latest research shows.

This district figured out how a community can energize tutoring

Matt Zalaznick -
Leaders in Oakland USD in California have turned to the community to find paraprofessionals who can help teachers by providing additional personalized instruction in early literacy.

Celebrating multilingualism to unlock the potential of family engagement

Elisabeth O’Bryon -
The tremendous linguistic diversity present in our school communities necessitates intentional support to facilitate ongoing communication and trusted partnerships.

Making sense of the science of reading in a New Jersey school district

Sandra Rodriguez-Gomez -
Our teachers are more confident and our students are more engaged as they are seeing themselves as readers and writers. The non-negotiables are constant professional development, materials/resources, coaching, modeling and a high expectation of fidelity.

How to keep literacy varied and fun to provide the repetition students need

Elizabeth Greene -
The science of reading encourages a variety of approaches to meet the individual learning needs of all students. Here’s how it works in my classroom.

Superintendent’s Playbook: How to make more progress with interventions

Matt Zalaznick -
"It forces collaboration between social studies, math, English and science teachers," explains Superintendent John Dignan of Wayne-Westland Community Schools, about embedding interventions into core instruction. "They're working together and our kids are getting the medicine they need—it's not just about remediation, it's about acceleration."

Being shelf-less: How digital reading and listening boost literacy

Gretchen Zaitzeff -
Reading apps allow educators to drop entire libraries into students' hands, inviting them to read in print, on their phones while traveling, and through their headphones when being active.

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