Congratulations to Cris Tovani, recipient of ILA's Adolescent Literacy Thought Leader Award 2017!

The truth is, when we rely on lecture in an effort to cover content, we’re doing students a disservice.  Although lecture can be engaging and even useful, lecture alone cannot give kids real opportunities to learn, retain, and transfer the disciplinary... more

About this TCRWP Classroom Library Companion Shelf

This TCRWP classroom library shelf has been curated to offer even more irresistible series books for reading levels O, P, Q, and R to help kids keep reading.

About this TCRWP Classroom Library Shelf

This TCRWP classroom library shelf has been curated to offer even more irresistible series books for reading levels S, T, U, and V to help kids keep reading.

"Pencils ready? On your mark...get set...begin!"

Remember flipping over a page full of unrelated fact problems and scrambling to answer as many as possible in a minute? Remember trying to memorize math facts by rote? Many of our children are still asked to learn this way­—even though research shows this approach can harm student learning more than... more

Teachers know the importance of strong relationships with their students, but sometimes connecting with them feels challenging. No More Teaching Without Positive Relationships reviews the teacher-student relationship research and provides practices for building relationships that make a difference.

To learn, students need positive relationships with their... more

About this TCRWP Classroom Library Companion Shelf

This TCRWP classroom library shelf has been curated to offer even more irresistible series books for reading levels K, L, M, and N to help kids keep reading.

Teacher-coach collaboration is critical to teacher effectiveness and student learning, but sometimes the in-the-moment response rate required when supporting several teacher requests at once can make literacy coaching appear to be, well, rather random. 

No More Random Acts of Literacy Coaching looks at the common obstacles and misconceptions that can prevent... more

Every child is a cultural being with a unique history and rich cultural practices; a member of communities in and outside of school. Yet too many children spend their days inside classrooms where they rarely find their voices, values, and cultural practices reflected in curriculum materials, much less embraced and celebrated through instructional practices.

Culturally... more

It is common to engage students in the process of science, using mostly hands-on activities, and equally common to provide students with only science knowledge through mostly text-based experiences. Neither of these approaches is authentic to how scientists make sense of the world. Both fail to connect those experiences to the larger purpose of... more