On a recent school improvement day, I was working with a group of kindergarten teachers on centers.  I suggested using the Daily 5 for the ...

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I recently facilitated a School Improvement Day for a friend that’s a principal of a K-6 building with gen ed, dual language and gifted cla...

We all know that the easiest way to increase student achievement is to improve instruction and questioning is the most powerful tool in o...

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I've been reading two books simultaneously!   The first is   Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives,   by Fisher, Frey and Lapp and...

Argument writing is a key area of focus in the CCSS.  The CCSS routinely expects students to draw evidence from texts to produce clear and...