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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.
Essential questions are the overarching questions that provoke thought and lead students to inquiry, meaning making and finally transfer, while understandings are the concepts and skills that students will use to be able to gain and draw inferences, make connections and apply the learning to new situations
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
Educators introducing UbD into their classroom might should not worry that Essential Questions feel lofty or above an elementary understanding.
Hear from a veteran HS teacher who just became a Coach in her building. Because her experience is so vivid and sobering I have kept her identity anonymous.
There was one clear Enduring Understanding from our experience: Intellectual understanding is impossible without openness to cultural & social understanding.
There are endless articles, blogs, essays on the difference between good and bad teachers. […]
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