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Authentic Education Team

Fights over whether teaching systematic phonics & word study is essential pulls focus away from doing the actual work of learning about what our students need
As AE’s President, I am delighted and humbled to follow in the footsteps of Grant Wiggins and Denise Wilbur in this next chapter for Authentic Education.
A blog series exploring how AI chatbots are reshaping learning and what we can do about […]
In my last two posts, I explored examples of Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions (EUs and […]
Before I started planning math units using the Understanding by Design framework, I frequently found myself […]
As I entered the bright, beautiful classroom my first year of teaching, the first thing that […]
In part 1 of my reply to Willingham’s article on reading comprehension strategies published recently in […]
This is Part 1 of a 2-part response In a recent Washington Post article (excerpted from […]
Some not surprising but still depressing excerpts from the PISA Math Results, US results: Students in […]
My mother is an extraordinary person. Yesterday, while I made lunch for my son, father, and […]