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It’s Summer; Let’s Play!

How can we balance structured and unstructured summer play? Summer play includes opportunities for your child to play independently, socially, and guided. Children benefit from summer play and we can help them think about what play might look, sound, and feel like.

Let’s Keep Them Reading! Tips for keeping your students reading during the summer months

The long awaited summer break is just around the corner, and while we are all looking forward to the fun summer months ahead, we might also start thinking about how we can encourage our students to continue reading during summer to prevent learning loss. You’ve spent...

Providing Great Instruction for Students with Special Needs through ALM

All students deserve intentional, effective, engaging learning experiences, but students with special needs require it. By implementing the strategies of ALM, teachers can better prepare to meet the needs of all of their students, but most importantly, those of their special learners.

Navigating the Current Challenges in Teaching Elementary Mathematics

Navigating the Current Challenges in Teaching Elementary Mathematics

Mathematics is a crucial subject that serves as a foundation for many concepts, processes and skills that all students will need in their lives. The challenges faced by today’s educators when teaching elementary mathematics can have a profound impact on student learning and future success.  In this blog post, I will explore some of the current challenges in teaching elementary mathematics and discuss potential solutions.

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Not This or That, but Both/And: Using ALM to Make Other High Quality Instructional Resources Even Better for Students

Not This or That, but Both/And: Using ALM to Make Other High Quality Instructional Resources Even Better for Students

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. With a mindset of not this or that, but both/and, teachers can begin to take the best of the resources they have before them to engage students in learning the content.

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Meeting the Needs of Multilingual Learners with ALM

Meeting the Needs of Multilingual Learners with ALM

The Adolescent Literacy Model is easily adaptable for meeting the needs of Multilingual Learners in heterogeneous classrooms. As teachers strategically select ALM strategies for their lessons, they can simultaneously plan modifications for their students with limited English proficiency.

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