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.
EdWeek’s “The Teaching Profession in 2022 (in Charts)” article by Madeline Will explored the challenges that […]
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
    There are endless articles, blogs, essays on the difference between good and bad teachers. […]
In my previous two posts on standards, I pointed out that though we talk of “a” […]
It is a longstanding ugly fact in education: the child’s socio-economic status is tightly correlated with […]
If that’s the goal, what’s the best use of class time? is a question at the […]
Here’s a stunner from the weekend New York Times, in a front-page article, no less: “schools […]
In a recent blog post I commented on my dismay at the result about teaching in […]