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.
In my last post, I talked about my journey to understanding how language instruction fits into […]
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
A blog series exploring how AI chatbots are reshaping learning and what we can do about […]
As I entered the bright, beautiful classroom my first year of teaching, the first thing that […]
The following account comes from a veteran HS teacher who just became a Coach in her […]
    There are endless articles, blogs, essays on the difference between good and bad teachers. […]