Distance Learning: Staying Healthy While Teaching from Home
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many educators are now teaching from home. Teachers care deeply about providing their students with an[...]
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Distance Learning: Reaching Students with Limited Virtual Access
With the vast majority of U.S. schools closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, many districts have turned to online learning to ensure students[...]
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Distance Learning: Supporting Students' Social-Emotional Needs
In these unprecedented times, more and more schools are making the transition to distance learning - whether that’s online or low tech approaches.[...]
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3 Blended Learning Strategies to Effectively Personalize Learning
Blended learning offers an incredible opportunity to dramatically improve student outcomes. However, it’s easy to fall into the trap of using tech[...]
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3 Tenets of Culturally Responsive Secondary Literacy Instruction
Across the country, we have a deep literacy problem: According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), in 2019 only 35% of 4th[...]
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Four Ways to Begin to Change the Narrative about American Indians in K-12 Instruction
"Are there actual Indians there?" This is a question I often heard when I told people that I was a teacher on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in[...]
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Infusing Student-Centered Literacy Practices into an Established Curriculum
This is the fifth blog in our Newsela student-centered literacy blog series. You can find the previous installment here and the subsequent, and[...]
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Strategies to Support Questioning and Discussion in a Literacy Classroom
This is the first blog in our Newsela student-centered literacy blog series. You can find the second installment here.
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Four Tips for Making this School Year Your Best One Yet
The new school year is upon us! It feels like just a few weeks ago we were saying goodbye to students and colleagues and heading into a summer of[...]
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