I gave my littlest a copy of Brave New World for Christmas and while I thought there was a pretty good chance she’d read it, I didn’t think she’d read it OG style. I found that out because I came home from a work trip on Friday evening and found her sleeping on the…
When I was teaching 5th grade, I knew that I needed to support my students’ fluency, but I had no idea how to do it. I had some students who came into my classroom reading beautifully, with ease and comfort. Other students were still struggling to decode, requiring prompting with each challenging word. However, the majority…
Books are finally having their moment in the sun. In a series of recent articles, journalists have laid bare the frightening trend of the dwindling of books in American reading classes. The New York Times featured, short excerpts, a trend that is all too common in classrooms across the country. Others have argued that books…
Ijeoma Duru’s visual guidance addresses the Transient Information Effect. It’s no secret that students in the U.S. are falling behind in mathematics. Students are not only performing worse on national assessments like NAEP, they’re also falling behind the rest of the world on international assessments like the Program for International Assessment (PISA) as well…
On February 10 and 11 we’ll be in Houston for something new and exciting–our first math-specific teaching workshop: Checking for Understanding in Math. We’ll discuss topics we’d cover in a typical CFU workshop–gathering data, perceiving and responding to errors–but look at them all through a math lens: What and how do we use and adapt…
