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Use Comprehensible Input to Get to 90%.… Use Comprehensible Input to Get to 90%. Not the Other Way Around. So I’m standing in front of 30 students teaching a high school French 2 class. A few barely passed French 1. Two have IEPs for auditory processing disorder. Eight have ADHD.  Several are totally disinterested…
March 22, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: LONG + LIVE + TEACHINGProfessional LearningTeaching Strategies
Fast ForWord-ing K-3 Literacy in Mingo County,… Fast ForWord-ing K-3 Literacy in Mingo County, West Virginia As the Zoom call connects, third grade teacher Jennifer Sparks and second grade teacher Stephanie Fabin sit side-by-side in Stephanie's classroom. School is out for the day at Williamson PK8, and they’ve stayed late to…
March 15, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Brain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
This EdTech CEO Isn’t Worried About AI.… This EdTech CEO Isn’t Worried About AI. In Fact, She’s Excited.
March 14, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie LearningEdTechFuture ReadyLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGProfessional LearningThe State of Education
Has a Florida Principal Solved the Teacher… Has a Florida Principal Solved the Teacher Turnover Problem?
March 05, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGProfessional LearningTeaching Strategies
Educators See the Bright Side of AI… Educators See the Bright Side of AI Despite Some Concerns It's no secret: artificial intelligence is here to stay. AI is revolutionizing nearly every domain of modern life, and education is no exception. While AI feels very new to most education stakeholders, it's something we…
March 01, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie LearningEdTechLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGThe State of Education
Reintroducing the Integrated Performance Assessment Reintroducing the Integrated Performance Assessment Let’s play Two Truths and a Lie. I’ll go first: 1) Many world language teachers utilize the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in their classrooms. 2) Most, though, don’t. 3) That’s because the IPA is such…
January 22, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGTeaching Strategies
Our 2024 Picks for the Biggest Trends… Our 2024 Picks for the Biggest Trends in Education Originally published on January 5, 2024. Updated on May 1, 2024. Educators have a love-hate relationship with trends. On the one hand, the promise of some education trends is to make teachers' lives and jobs…
January 05, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie LearningFuture ReadyLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGProfessional LearningTeaching StrategiesThe State of Education
Fast ForWord Educator Still Going Strong 20… Fast ForWord Educator Still Going Strong 20 Years In Mary Albers, Educational Consultant for Fast ForWord® at Smoky Hill Education Service Center in Salina, Kansas, has been using the language and reading program Fast ForWord for 20 years. And she has no intention of stopping.  …
October 16, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningEdTech
Sixth Grade Math Teacher Doubles Student Competency… Sixth Grade Math Teacher Doubles Student Competency Scores When it comes to teaching math, Shannon Drumma knows her stuff.  She’s taught at Mount Morris Central School, a PreK-12 school in rural western New York, for 30 years. She’s spent 14 of those years…
July 10, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + MATHLONG + LIVE + MATH ClassroomsLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
Teacher of the Year Knows Math Class… Teacher of the Year Knows Math Class Is Better With Laughter Once you start talking to Demeasa “Dee” Heard, a 6th grade math teacher at Sedway Middle School in the Clark County School District in Nevada, it’s easy to see why she is the 2023 Teacher…
June 14, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
K-5 Students See a 110% Increase in… K-5 Students See a 110% Increase in STAR Early Literacy Scores McKinley Elementary School is a small, diverse school nestled in the heart of The Castro neighborhood in San Francisco. Doug Rich, a literacy specialist and educator of 27 years, works with K-5 students with dyslexia…
June 12, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
This Reading Interventionist Knows Success Is Its… This Reading Interventionist Knows Success Is Its Own Reward When Missy Coffey started working as a reading interventionist at Farmingdale Elementary School in Pleasant Plains, Illinois, in 2019, she had never heard of Fast ForWord®. But her school had been using the adaptive language…
June 09, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
8 Ways To Get the Most out… 8 Ways To Get the Most out of The National Institute Congratulations on your upcoming trip to The National Institute.  Inspiring Power Talks, high-energy collaborative learning, and our famous five-star treatment are headed your way.  Excited yet? We are!  As you prepare to travel to TNI,…
June 06, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + MATHLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGProfessional Learning
Meet Math Influencer Robert Ahdoot Meet Math Influencer Robert Ahdoot While Robert Ahdoot believes that successful math learning begins with genuine connections between teachers and students, he also knows that a few good jokes never hurt. In his 20 years as a math educator, Robert…
May 22, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + MATHLONG + LIVE + MATH ClassroomsLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
5 Reasons Educators Love To Use ClearFluency 5 Reasons Educators Love To Use ClearFluency We all want kids to read with fluency: that magic triad of accuracy, speed, and expression.  Why is fluency so important?  Primarily because it’s the bridge between decoding and comprehension. When children begin reading fluently,…
May 11, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Carnegie Learning
Texas Math Teacher Katie Freund Thinks Learning… Texas Math Teacher Katie Freund Thinks Learning Should Be Loud When Katie Freund, Middle School Math Teacher at Martin Middle School in Corpus Christi, Texas, was an economics major in college, she learned that math could be hands-on, rooted in the real world, and maybe…
May 10, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + MATHLONG + LIVE + MATH Classrooms
English Learners in Texas Build Literacy Skills… English Learners in Texas Build Literacy Skills by Talking About Math Eighth-grade math teacher Katie Freund wore a lot of hats before she started teaching for Corpus Christi ISD in the fall of 2022. She studied in Mexico on a Fulbright Scholarship and has worked as…
May 01, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + MATHLONG + LIVE + MATH ClassroomsLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
Georgia’s New Mathematics Content Standards Are Here! Georgia’s New Mathematics Content Standards Are Here! By now, it’s an undisputed fact that the educational landscape across the country has shifted. If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that change is inevitable as we consider new ways of…
May 01, 2023 Demetrius Nelson Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + MATHLONG + LIVE + MATH ClassroomsLONG + LIVE + TEACHING
Success Spotlight: Fast ForWord 100-in-a-Row Club Success Spotlight: Fast ForWord 100-in-a-Row Club When it comes to motivating students to keep on truckin’ even when the work gets challenging, we’ve seen teachers go the extra mile…or ten! Pizza parties, doughnut breaks, gift cards.  Special assemblies, bulletin boards, and t-shirts.…
April 01, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language Arts
10 Reasons TNI Is the Best Educator… 10 Reasons TNI Is the Best Educator PD Event of the Summer Have you heard about The National Institutes (TNI)?  If not, let us introduce you to your dream professional development experience. TNI for math, literacy, and world language educators will inspire and rejuvenate you with a mix…
March 22, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsLONG + LIVE + MATHLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGProfessional Learning
Top 10 Reasons Students Should Be Reading… Top 10 Reasons Students Should Be Reading Out Loud My classroom was rarely quiet during my 16 years as a high school ELA teacher.  And not just because I taught 9th graders.  Although reflection and silent reading are skills every student needs, my students…
February 23, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Carnegie Learning
Research Spotlight: New Discoveries on How Teenage… Research Spotlight: New Discoveries on How Teenage Brains Learn Best Maybe it’s nerdy, but we love brains.  Especially squishy, mile-a-minute, highly-malleable adolescent brains. They’re swimming in potential, managing warring impulses, and working so hard to connect all the new information they take in daily.    …
February 17, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under:
Success Spotlight: The Summer That Changed a… Success Spotlight: The Summer That Changed a Struggling Reader’s Life Growing up in Ville Platte, Louisiana, in the ‘90s, Justin Comeaux was the friendly kid down the street who loved baseball, music, and his little sister.  But school was hard for him.   While it would…
February 06, 2023 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Brain & Learning ScienceCarnegie Learning
ELA Classroom Activity: Celebrate the Winter Solstice… ELA Classroom Activity: Celebrate the Winter Solstice With Visual Poetry When you hear “winter solstice,” what do you think of?  The longest night of the year? The earth sleeping under a blanket of snow?   More likely, because you’re an ELA teacher, this time of year…
December 13, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGTeaching Strategies
Our 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of… Our 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2022 ‘Tis the season of top ten lists, and we thought we’d join the fun. Here’s a look at our most popular blog posts published in 2022. 1. On Trend Our most popular blog post of…
December 13, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD, Karen Sloan Filed Under: English Language ArtsCarnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + MATHThe State of Education
Success Spotlight: Krista Borland’s Student-Centered Math Classroom Success Spotlight: Krista Borland’s Student-Centered Math Classroom When Krista Borland, middle school math teacher at The Early College of Arvada in Colorado, was going through her teacher education program, she learned that the best way to teach math was through experiential, hands-on…
December 02, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Carnegie Learning
Sustainable Tutoring: The Best Ways to Set… Sustainable Tutoring: The Best Ways to Set Up Your High-Dosage Tutoring Research has confirmed that high-dosage tutoring is one of the most effective methods for getting students on grade level and keeping them there. But how do you make tutoring sustainable for your school or district?…
November 29, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Carnegie LearningTeaching Strategies
The Art of the Matter: 3 Reasons… The Art of the Matter: 3 Reasons to Use Images in your ELA Classroom In my 16 years in the ELA classroom, not a year went by that my students didn’t tease me about my secret desire to be an art teacher. They were wrong about that–I loved my…
November 01, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Carnegie LearningTeaching Strategies
5 Ways MATHbook Promotes High-Order Tasks for… 5 Ways MATHbook Promotes High-Order Tasks for Math Classrooms High-Order Tasks for Deep Thinking and Understanding Think back to the last time you got a new phone. You probably didn’t get it up and running by reading the user’s manual. Instead, you used your…
October 25, 2022 Karen Sloan, Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Carnegie LearningTeaching Strategies
2022 Dyslexia Research Updates 2022 Dyslexia Research Updates October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, and that means it's time to take a look at new research on how we can better support our students with dyslexia. We're highlighting three recent articles that expand our…
October 10, 2022 Martha Burns, Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsTeaching Strategies
8 Alternatives to Round Robin Reading 8 Alternatives to Round Robin Reading When I was a graduate student in English, I took a German reading class to fulfill a language requirement. It was, to put it mildly, a challenge for me.  For reasons I still don’t understand,…
September 22, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsTeaching Strategies
5 Get-to-Know-You Activities for Elementary Students 5 Get-to-Know-You Activities for Elementary Students The first day of school.  There’s nothing quite like it, especially when you're teaching elementary school. The excitement is palpable. Your students' faces are bright and eager. Anything seems possible.  Harness this unique back-to-school energy…
August 17, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under:
Middle School Ice Breakers That Build Strong… Middle School Ice Breakers That Build Strong Literacy Skills The first day of middle school has a special kind of energy.   Channel your students’ big feelings with these high-energy, low-stress middle school ice breakers guaranteed to soothe nerves, create community, and start building the literacy…
August 15, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under:
3 High School ELA Icebreakers to Get… 3 High School ELA Icebreakers to Get Your Students Talking When I was a first-year English teacher, I made a typical rookie mistake with my ninth-graders.  Namely, I didn’t put enough thought into my opening-day icebreaker, thinking we would each just share a book we…
August 11, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsTeaching Strategies
3 Ways to Promote Family-School Partnerships Over… 3 Ways to Promote Family-School Partnerships Over the Summer Elijah was a good kid. Thoughtful, funny, kind to his peers. And his writing was way below grade level. He knew it and felt a little defensive but also pretty hopeless that things would change.…
May 04, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: Brain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningFuture ReadyLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGProfessional LearningTeaching Strategies
5 Reasons Your Students Should Write Every… 5 Reasons Your Students Should Write Every Day Do students write every day in your classroom?  If not, you’re not alone. Research on writing frequency suggests that just a quarter of middle and high school students write for at least 30 minutes a…
April 14, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceTeaching Strategies
4 Features of Good Professional Development for… 4 Features of Good Professional Development for Teachers Hey, district leaders, principals, and administrators, it’s quiz time!  What’s the single most important influencer of student achievement? A. Schools with 3D printers B. High-quality teachers who are confident in their pedagogy, content knowledge, and…
March 28, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: LONG + LIVE + TEACHINGProfessional LearningTeaching Strategies
ELA Spotlight: How to Ask Questions That… ELA Spotlight: How to Ask Questions That Students Love to Answer Students learn best when they learn from each other.  But this doesn’t mean that your role as an ELA teacher isn’t critical. After all, you facilitate discussions, which are a large part of how students…
February 17, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsProfessional Learning
3 Poems and Classroom Activities to Teach… 3 Poems and Classroom Activities to Teach Joy Harjo, National Poet Laureate In 2019, Joy Harjo became the first Native American poet laureate of the United States, a post she continues to hold in 2022. A member of the Mvskoke/Creek nation, Harjo has been writing poems, music,…
February 03, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsTeaching Strategies
5 Benefits of Reading Out Loud in… 5 Benefits of Reading Out Loud in Your Classroom Did you celebrate World Read Aloud Day as a student? Is it a tradition you’ve kept going as an educator?  I have fond memories of World Read Aloud Day during my high school years. One year, we…
January 31, 2022 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning Science
Why Mathematical Discourse Is Good for Students Why Mathematical Discourse Is Good for Students As a new teacher, I remember my principal telling me, “When I walk into a classroom, the person I see doing the most talking is the person doing the most learning.” Her words stuck with…
January 26, 2022 Jasmine Sanders, Tiffany Henderson Filed Under: LONG + LIVE + MATHLONG + LIVE + MATH ClassroomsTeaching Strategies
A Rich American Tapestry: 5 Indigenous Poets… A Rich American Tapestry: 5 Indigenous Poets to Teach Right Now It’s always a good day to teach Indigenous poets, but doing so in November is an especially great way to honor Native American Heritage Month. Challenge and inspire your ELA students by teaching these five…
November 19, 2021 Emily Anderson, PhD Filed Under: English Language Arts
How to Help Secondary Students Breathe Easy… How to Help Secondary Students Breathe Easy When It Comes to Reading I have a confession to make. When I think about reading, I don’t think of it as a strand within English language arts. I think of it as the academic equivalent of breathing—an essential life…
August 19, 2021 Logan De Ley Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceCarnegie LearningEdTech
All Students Need to Know That They’re… All Students Need to Know That They’re “Math People” If you've been on social media over the past month, I bet your news feed was filled with pictures of children across the country returning to school. Eager smiles, children holding Pinterest-worthy signs (or in…
October 01, 2018 Cristin Delaney Filed Under: Carnegie LearningFuture Ready