2nd-grade teacher, Lucy Makuro, leads her students through a close reading of the poem “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” by Jane Taylor.More
Edited close reading lesson including relevant artifacts.More
Meredith Liben, Director of Literacy and English Language Arts at Student Achievement Partners discusses achieving complexity and range through reading standard 10.More
Clare Lundquist, Principal of University Prep-Steele Street in Denver, CO, describes strategies teachers use to support all students with grade-level math.More
Clare Lundquist, Principal of University Prep-Steele Street in Denver, CO, describes structures the school has in place to support students with unfinished learning to ‘catch them up.’More
5th-grade teacher, Corey Moore, discusses small group instruction as a vehicle for students to share their thinking and learn from one another.More
5th-grade teacher, Carina Pruitt, shares how conceptual understanding is the foundation for procedural fluency and application. Looking for more specific standard/grade lessons, tasks or games to build conceptual understanding? Check out...More
5th-grade teacher, Lisa Caponigro, discusses the strategic use of collaborative planning time to dig into math standards and explore coherence within and across grades. Caponigro then delivers a lesson where students use their understanding of...More
Hear 5th-grade teacher, Carina Pruitt, explain how student discussion drives her lessons. Then watch two examples of her classroom instruction: - In Eliciting Student Thinking Through Questioning Carina facilitates a class discussion and clari...More

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