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Gain a clear five-step process for fully and seamlessly transitioning to proficiency-based instruction (also known as evidence-based grading). Drive student self-efficacy and achievement with lesson and curriculum planning that focuses on real learning.

Discover how to use questing—a pedagogy tailored to a student’s interests, needs, and abilities—to foster 21st century skills.

Learn how to ask targeted questions to enhance students’ reasoning skills and increase rigor in classrooms.

This practical guide offers K–5 teachers, coaches, and leaders 25 strategies to boost student literacy achievement. Organized into before-reading, during-reading, and after-reading text scaffolding strategies, these methods advocate for engaging all students in challenging texts. Learn how to adapt these strategies for whole-class, small-group, and partner instruction.

Discover questioning techniques proven to enhance critical thinking and 21st century skills, deepen student engagement, and improve college and career readiness. This user-friendly guide provides templates, surveys, and checklists for planning instruction, unpacking standards, and increasing rigor in the classroom.

Learn the step-by-step instructional plan for teachers to implement read alouds in preK–8 classrooms. Whether you’re a longtime professional or new to teaching, this resource helps you support young learners emotionally, intellectually, linguistically, and developmentally.

Grounded in research-informed strategies, this book helps educators refine literacy instruction for grades 2–6. Explore lesson planning, text selection, and structured reading strategies across three parts, with techniques for before, during, and after reading, along with methods to foster a supportive classroom.

Prepare students in grades 4–5 to succeed with increasingly sophisticated reading and writing challenges. This resource contains literacy and student engagement strategies for educators in a professional learning community, as well as reading and writing strategies.

Prepare your collaborative PLC team to fully support and encourage literacy development in preK through first grade. Foster early literacy and vocabulary with insightful reading and writing strategies that boost student engagement.

Discover how to design standards-aligned instruction, assessment, and intervention that support the literacy development of every second- and third-grader. This resource contains best practices for collaborative teams looking to improve their students’ reading comprehension.