Ideas, insights, and inspiration from the
Authentic Education Team

Supporting exploration and knowledge building rather than rushing to adopt a new curriculum is leading to better results for students.
Materials, resources, tools & training providing effective, research-based instruction to develop all aspects of literacy for many kinds of students.
Students engage more and are more motivated when they realize their impact on the world through direct community involvement.
UbD helps us think beyond test scores and memorization to better support students develop thinking and questioning skills that will benefit them in the future.
UbD helps us think beyond test scores and memorization to better support students develop thinking and questioning skills that will benefit them in the future.
Let’s dive deeper into how to look critically at our curriculum in order to cultivate a more flexible, thoughtful and inclusive approach to teaching reading.
Unpacking world language standards into what we want our students to KNOW (knowledge) and be able to DO (skills) narrows our focus.
A primary goal of UbD is to make meaning of learning by way of “big ideas” and to transfer learning and this can be applied to all subject areas.
The power of knowing my students as readers and leveraging this knowledge to help guide and shape their journey as readers and spellers has been transformative.
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