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Don’t Rely on Rigor and Relevance
As a precursor to the current economic crisis, the in vogue educational leadership trend was the Rigor and Relevance Movement. Popularized over the last decade by…
Teach Content Reading
A growing trend with Response to Intervention models is to expand the reading block to more than two hours per day. Elementary reading is reductive. More…
Trust Teachers, but Verify with Diagnostic ELA/Reading Assessments
In summary, trust the science of comprehensive, diagnostic ELA/reading assessments to inform your instruction. Using this objective data will eliminate the "trust factor" and guess work…
Ten Criteria for Effective ELA/Reading Diagnostic Assessments
Diagnostic assessments are essential instructional tools for effective English-language Arts and reading teachers. However, many teachers resist using these tools because they can be time-consuming to…
Free Informal Reading Assessments
Individual reading assessments are time-consuming and inefficient. Effective reading assessments that are 1. comprehensive 2. diagnostic and 3. They must be easy to give, easy to…