Adolescent Literacy Systems and RTI

In working with many schools and districts, I regularly hear much concern, comment and effort from schools that are attempting to meet the requirements of RTI – Response to Intervention. RTI is a simple idea that seems to have become complicated in its...

Snippets Continued…

I spent some time on Friday sharing my visit to Bate middle school. Bate is part of the Striving Readers Consortium in Kentucky that we work with, and as part of our fourth year of working with these schools, they have written, planned and started to implement some...

Snippets from a School

I spent the day at Bate Middle School in Danville, KY on Tuesday meeting with teachers who are using some of the new technologies from the Kentucky’s Striving Readers Consortium. I don’t usually talk about specific schools that I work with but my experience was...

Protocols & Strategies: Conversations About Learning

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the roles protocols and strategies play in our work. They are the closely linked hand and glove of learning. We introduce content literacy strategies to help students learn, and we use protocols to have conversations about the ...