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Where Are Quality Instructional Materials for English Language Learners?

MindShift

And while the materials he uses match his students’ level of English proficiency, Brock said he sometimes feels like he’s insulting their intelligence. A nationwide survey of ELL educators by McKinsey & Company during the 2012-13 school year revealed 70 percent created their own materials. He isn’t alone.

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PROOF POINTS: ‘Right-to-read’ settlement spurred higher reading scores in California’s lowest performing schools, study finds

The Hechinger Report

But these reading gains are meaningful for a real-life classroom experience, not a laboratory experiment or a small pilot program, which involved more than 7,000 third graders over two years. How to drive research to inform practice within schools and within classrooms is the central problem we face in education policy,” said Dee.

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In 2024, education will build systems that champion the science of reading

eSchool News

Based on the inspiring work that has been supported by educators leading The Reading League chapters, I can confidently predict that educators will continue to be hungry to understand how to bring evidence-aligned practices and materials into their classrooms.

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Detroit Public Schools Community District Adopts Curriculum Associates’ Magnetic Reading™ to Help Accelerate Learning and Build Students’ Critical Reading Skills

eSchool News

This supplemental program, which will be used by approximately 12,000 students across 74 schools in the district, helps teachers facilitate lively classroom discourse and engage all students with grade-level content as they build their confidence and master critical reading skills. “A NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., About Curriculum Associates.

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What Will Schools Do in the Fall? Here Are 4 Possible Scenarios

Edsurge

For example, if the number of cases jumps quickly mid-week, the district would send home instructional materials within 48 hours and then continue learning online the following week,” the report describes. Any potential reopening will prioritize not instruction but advising and relationship building.

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Curriculum Associates Launches Magnetic Reading to Help Students Build Confidence While Mastering Critical Reading Skills

eSchool News

By providing actionable data and insights, knowledge-rich learning, culturally responsive pedagogy, and scaffolds to support learner variability, the blended research-based program helps teachers facilitate lively classroom discourse and engage all students with grade-level content using culturally relevant texts. About Curriculum Associates.

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A ‘Learning Ecosystem’ Approach to Ed-Tech Acquisition

Digital Promise

.” That’s when districts think in terms bigger than technology, bringing together plans for strategy, technology, instruction, and curriculum. Can classroom-level digital learning pilots embrace experimentation, limit risk, bake goals into early adoption, and lead to meaningful scale across the district? Absolutely.

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