Teaching Unscripted

When the problems in education feel structural or overwhelming, it is easy to believe that meaningful impact requires systemic disruption or visible resistance. What you do control are the intentional choices you make in the classroom and how students experience learning in your presence.

The Classroom Essentials series books is for new teachers and veterans looking to try new ideas or refine their practice. Each book features highly visual and accessible designs, classroom videos, online resources, teacher tips and more.

For educators looking to help students make sense of algebra and move forward with confidence, Transition to Algebra offers a purposeful and research-backed solution.

All students can be capable mathematicians who possess the following skills: productive dispositions; number sense; conceptual understanding; and problem-solving capabilities.

With refreshed materials, a new name and logo, and a clear instructional vision, Saxon Reading Foundations continues to evolve, empowering educators and helping students build the skills they need to become confident, successful readers.

Selected passages that demonstrate the poetry in prose. Through immersion in poetry, students may begin to see and understand that the strongest writing, is poetry.

Discover how reading whole books and authentic texts strengthens comprehension, knowledge building, and student engagement in K–5 classrooms.

What is explicit instruction? How can reading and writing strategies help with this approach?

Celebrate Poetry Month with this collection of books, videos, blogs, and podcasts that provide support for teaching and learning poetry. 

Strategies for addressing challenging behaviors in the classroom. How can you increase cooperation from a student who is often challenging? How should you address disrespect? What doesn’t work?

Six practices for teaching poetry: begin with play, have students contribute to poetry discussions in a variety of ways, have students write poems, teach the language of poetry, ask students to immerse themselves in poetry study, and require students to publicly share poems.

Learn how vocabulary instruction supports reading comprehension, knowledge building, and academic success within a comprehensive approach to literacy.

When early reading skills are taught in isolation, progress can stall. Learn why skill integration matters for early literacy and how research-aligned instruction supports real reading growth in K–2 classrooms.

Struggling as a model for students shows it's okay not to have the 'right' answer. How to model uncertainty and lean into AI for substitute plans.

The question is not “to do AI or not to do AI”; the question is how and why and when are we choosing to use AI as teachers, or helping our students know how and why and when to use it. Read on for the conversation between Anita Charles and a student.

Teachers often feel beholden to the delivery methods and structures placed in front of them. Finding alternative, creative, and engaging ways to meet standards requires personal risk and vulnerability, but is worth the payoff.

On tests, students may encounter unfamiliar academic vocabulary in questions, face text structures they haven't learned to navigate, or need to cite evidence in ways they haven't been explicitly taught. But these are teachable skills!

5 moves teachers can make before, during, and after reading. The focus should be preparing students to read with purpose, and make meaning through discussion and reflective questions.