Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

Listen to the interview with Dan Tricarico: Sponsored by Alpaca and The School Me Podcast This page contains Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? From the time I was a child, you could give me a book, a snack, a comfy chair, and a rainy day and I could get lost in a book for hours.

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Reading English Grades Attention 54

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. It fosters social responsibility, strong intellectual and practical skills, and the ability to think critically to apply knowledge in real-world settings, combining general education with specialized study (Barker, 2000).

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Art Curriculum Interdisciplinary Teaching 52

Beyond the Worksheet

JUNE 22, 2025

This year, I decided to try something new with my 4th and 5th grade math intervention groups: interactive notebooks. But not just any notebooks… mini ones. Why I Went Mini Let’s be honest: intervention time is short, and our students are often struggling with more than just math. Keeping things simple was the goal. So instead of full-sized spirals or composition books, we used mini interactive notebooks.

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Math Grades Teachers Students 52

Tunstalls Teaching Tidbits

JUNE 22, 2025

Word chains are a simple and effective phonemic awareness activity where students sound swap their way through a series of words. Word chains offer practice with blending, segmenting, and phoneme manipulation. In this post, I am sharing a new resource: Word Chains for Reading Skills. How Do Word Chains Work? To begin, word chains are a wonderful oral task where the teacher directs students through exercises such as “Say cat.” Students: “cat” Teacher: “Change /c/ t

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Reading Skills Activities Student Engagement 52

Jodi Durgin

JUNE 22, 2025

The Leprechaun Application Activity is a fun and imaginative two-page activity where students can apply to become leprechauns! The application asks for personal information, such as the applicant’s leprechaun name and age (can be hundreds of years old), as well as details about their skills and experience, like how they would go about finding a pot of gold.

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Activities Schools Writing Assignments 52

Southwest Washington Education

JUNE 22, 2025

From the Washington Policy Institute: [link] Pointing to stats from Washington Policy Center’s Report Card for Washington’s Future showing student spending is up per pupil from $13,775 to $19,163, while student test scores show decline with “about 60 percent not on track for college level learning in math and 50 percent when it comes to English”, Q13 reporter […]

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English Math Testing Learning 40