by Jenni Aberli | Feb 6, 2023 | Blog
Schools and districts are so often looking for a silver bullet to improve student outcomes. This isn’t new, we’ve been doing it for years and I’ve yet to find or hear of that ONE SINGLE THING that does it. Trends come and go, curricula change, and research evolves to...
by rodaniel | Jan 24, 2023 | Blog
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the roles protocols and strategies play in our Adolescent Literacy Model. They are closely linked in enhancing learning. We introduce content literacy strategies to help students learn, and we use protocols to have conversations...
by Staci Eddleman | Jan 11, 2023 | Blog
In the United States, K-12 schools are legally required to ensure that Multilingual Learners (MLs) can participate fully in all educational programs, as outlined in both the Civil Rights Act and the Every Student Succeeds Act. Since it is estimated that by 2025, MLs...
by Staci Eddleman | Dec 13, 2022 | Blog
By Roland O’Daniel, Ph.D. & Staci Eddleman, Ed.D. In a middle school science class, students stand in circles of 3-4, presenting unanswered questions from an article they read from National Geographic about a baby dinosaur discovered in a fossilized egg. As...
by rodaniel | Dec 5, 2022 | Blog
Research into critical thinking is clear that the skill can be taught and that it can be taught to young students as well. For CTL’s Postsecondary Success Skills Model, we use Robert H. Ennis’ (Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois and author of several...
by aperkins | Nov 30, 2022 | Blog
Imagine the backpack of a student you currently have in class or perhaps (for parent readers) your own child’s backpack. Unzip that backpack. What do you see in the open? What do you see inside each folder? What do you see that intentionally connects school to this...
by jwright | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
As the effects of the recent global pandemic on students become clearer, it is evident that our students are struggling to read. The most recent NAEP results (2022) showed a significant decrease in the average reading score at both fourth and eighth grade levels,...
by vmillerbennett | Nov 1, 2022 | Blog
Just before the pandemic, I was given an incredible opportunity to spend some time with a brilliant group of 8 and 9 year old students. Our collective goal was to simply learn from each other during a mathematics lesson that I designed. Though the teacher and I met...
by rodaniel | Oct 18, 2022 | mathematics
In this three part series, we will explore just a few of the types of writing to learn that teachers are utilizing as part of their work inside of the Adolescent Literacy Model. Writing in mathematics takes a variety of forms, styles and purposes. When mathematicians...
by Jenni Aberli | Oct 4, 2022 | Blog
As teachers implement the Adolescent Literacy Model, they are learning many strategies that provide practice for students in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing across multiple content areas. In addition, there are certain conditions that, when actively...
