eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

95 Percent Group LLC, the trusted source for comprehensive, proven literacy solutions, launched 95 Phonics Core Program® Word Study, Grades 4 and 5. It also includes professional learning and ongoing coaching at the district and building level to support teachers in mastering phonics-based instruction. Lincolnshire, Ill. –

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

Gaps in foundational knowledge, especially in early grades and exacerbated by continued pandemic-related learning loss, can make advanced topics more difficult to grasp later on. The math platform’s AI coaching helps motivate students to persevere through tough-to-learn topics, particularly when they’re completing work at home.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2024

I’m in my fifth year teaching science to fifth and sixth graders, but, like every other teacher at the K-8 charter school where I work, I also teach reading. Luckily, training offered by my school, Springfield Prep in Massachusetts, has provided me with tools to help get students reading proficiently again.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It’s no secret that strong reading skills are part of the foundation of students’ academic success. Without a solid reading foundation, students are more likely to perform poorly or drop out of school. Reading programs. years of growth in approximately seven months as measured on the Qualitative Reading Inventory.”.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Wisconsin is creating a new literacy office and hiring reading coaches. Dozens of states are moving to align their teaching practices with the science of reading, a body of research on how children learn that emphasizes explicit phonics instruction alongside helping students build vocabulary and knowledge about the world.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2022

As a fifth grade math teacher and instructional coach in New Orleans, Gibson has become increasingly interested in effective teaching informed by cognitive science —otherwise known as learning science—and how it can help teachers improve their practice. Matt Gibson spends a lot of his time thinking about how people learn.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA– Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, announced today that elementary students from Buchanan County, Virginia School District achieved unprecedented reading gains using Carnegie Learning’s Fast ForWord ® reading and language program. That’s major.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ello , developer of the world’s most advanced AI reading app, announced a new partnership with Civic Suds to promote reading by donating hundreds of children’s books while families are at laundromats this summer. This is not acceptable,” said Allister Chang, Founder of Civic Suds.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 2, 2018

When I work with elementary teachers, one of the biggest challenges they face is the wide range of reading skills in their classrooms. A first-grade class may have students who are struggling to decode while other students are reading at a third-grade level. ElemBookClubTemplate.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2019

Biggest challenge: There were many gaps in foundational reading across classrooms before we piloted our new reading program. In Rockford, small group instruction includes skill-based groups, guided reading, or literature circles. Related: 3 reasons why the reading gap is still alarmingly wide. Here’s how.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

While reading Adam Grant’s new book, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things , I was struck by his distinction between teaching and coaching. But it’s coaching others that elevates our confidence.” The students in the study assumed the role of a peer coach. Milkman, Dena M.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In my role as a blended learning coach, I value clear goals. Click To Tweet In my role as a coach, I had the opportunity to facilitate an articulation day with a group of middle school English language arts teachers. These “outs” become the “ins” for the next grade level. 2 Teachers interpret the standards differently.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Teachers can use this data to design subsequent lessons to ensure individual students get exactly what they need in terms of follow up instruction, coaching, scaffolds, and personalized practice. Plus, the students’ scores on a “quick check” are not something I would put into a grade book.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

“Instructional coaching is like sports coaching,” says Teresa Engler, K-12 Instructional Technology Coach for McGuffey School District in southwestern Pennsylvania. From the sideline, a coach gives the team a play, explains how it will work in the field and then watches as the players execute.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2024

It was an entry point for me to begin thinking about what a rich profession teaching is, along with how students develop their early reading skills, especially when they are learning multiple languages at once. Encourage students to read at home by embracing their home language. At Literacy First, we’ve always taught in Spanish.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In my role as a technology specialist — or tech coach — at an elementary school, I support teachers of students in pre-K through second grade and I often hear comments like these. When I became a school-based tech coach six years ago, I faced these same struggles. “It’s exhausting to get them all logged in.” “Our It makes sense.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Unfortunately, most secondary curriculum relies on a one-size-fits-all approach to reading. Instead of creating readers, this approach can alienate students who struggle to access books at a particular reading level or do not care for the genre of the books on their class reading list. Here is the template you can copy: bit.ly/HSbookclub.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

They can tell if someones skipping class a floor away by reading faces in the room. Its something anyone can develop with practice and coaching, and my radar used to be terrible. If I could start my teaching career again, I would request professional development days to observe beyond my content area, grade level, and even my school.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

During the pandemic, renowned reading expert Lucy Calkins called for a ‘rebalancing’ of Balanced Literacy, alluding to an increased focus on linking letters with their sounds–or what those of us who went to elementary school in the 80-90s know as phonics class. So, teachers can’t just start teaching 4 th grade content.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The statistics are well known: only 35 percent of students are reading proficiently by grade 4, and NAEP reading scores are the lowest in decades. Although most students can learn to read, the majority are not reaching their full potential. Coaching that provides content-specific individual support. “At

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In a coaching session last week, it became clear that teachers could use basic templates to help them conceptualize how to take strategies they have used in the past to create lessons that will work in a concurrent classroom (or in an online learning scenario). Teaching is a challenging profession on the best of days. You matter.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Not only does this affect their ability to communicate effectively, it also affects their reading skills, because writing and literacy are closely linked. Writing improves students reading fluency. What systematic writing instruction looks like Learning how to write should go hand-in-hand with learning how to read.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2019

Biggest challenge: There were many gaps in foundational reading across classrooms before we piloted our new reading program. In Rockford, small-group instruction includes skill-based groups, guided reading, or literature circles. It didn’t seem that we had a common methodology to teach foundational literacy.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2017

However, there are three reasons I’d argue we should NOT spend our time outside of class grading: Our prep time is better spent designing creative and engaging lessons. We don’t get paid for the time we spend grading outside of class. Real-time feedback and assessment are way more effective.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Like, if someone's talking to me and I'm reading a book, I wouldn't hear them,” says Aylynn, an eighth grader in Pendergast Elementary District in Phoenix, Arizona. Her words describe the transformative power of reading — a skill that, unlike spoken language, humans are not naturally hardwired to master.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Example: Two Teacher-Led Stations – One Differentiated, One Guided Reading and Discussion Reading Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2 Teacher 1: Differentiated Instruction Station At this station, students are grouped by their reading comprehension levels.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

One area we’ve recently been working on improving is the consistency of language and approach when it comes to explicit phonics instruction and the science of reading. Since the original roll-out of the program, much research in the science of reading has confirmed that this program aligns to best practices in phonics instruction.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Our school is one of just 12 “Science of Reading Spotlight Schools” in Alabama this year, but getting here wasn’t easy. Rewind the clock back to the fall of 2021 and just 15 percent of our kindergarten students were proficient in reading. I especially like the platform’s expansive video library and science of reading approach.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

He took that proclivity to the next level a few years ago, when he accepted a position as a K-12 technology coach in a small school district in western Michigan. I don't do the grading and the discipline anymore.” What brought you to your role as a technology coach? I just get to do the fun part now: teach,” he shares. “I

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Teachers, parents, counselors, administrators, coaches, and other loved ones have faced an unprecedented challenge in this regard. Districts will see the value in data-driven instructional coaching. One practice that we will see gaining popularity is instructional coaching. — Russ Davis, Founder and CEO, SchoolStatus.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Rather, Stinky Feet Day is the students’ hard-earned reward for reaching new benchmarks in silent reading. Silent reading is sometimes referred to as the “other fluency,” with oral fluency being the traditional standard-bearer. Yet, silent reading is a critical, albeit often overlooked, aspect of literacy development.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2022

When I facilitate workshops on this model or coach teachers using this model, I get a lot of questions. For example, I’ve coached teachers who run a four-station rotation over two class periods or a three-station rotation over three days, as pictured in the image below. It can be used across grade levels and subject areas.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2024

The district uses NWEA’s MAP Growth , part of NWEA’s Growth Activation Solution, to measure achievement and growth in K–12 math, reading, language usage, and science. Teachers use MAP data and its accurate, actionable evidence to inform instructional strategies regardless of how far students are above or below grade level.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Teachers can use this data to design subsequent lessons to ensure individual students get exactly what they need in terms of follow up instruction, coaching, scaffolds, and personalized practice. Plus, the students’ scores on a “quick check” are not something I would put into a grade book.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2020

Read to Lead is a 100% free and proven blended learning solution that leverages game-based learning to help students in grades 5-9 build reading, writing, and leadership skills. Read to Lead Website. In that time, students read 5,000 words, make 10 leadership decisions, and practice Reading Anchor Standards.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2022

Very often, teachers make well-intentioned and thoughtful plans to encourage their students to read daily in order to practice skills and strategies taught in class, as well as to build a lifelong reading habit. There’s a body of literacy research that says kids who engage in a high volume of reading become stronger readers.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2020

Read it now: The blended learning models that can help schools reopen. Read it now: 5 predictions for post-COVID learning. eSN’s own Dennis Pierce writes an amazing story on how fifth-grade teacher Kim Voge has had students literally beg her to give them more writing assignments.

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