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You have a role in creating equity each time you enter the classroom and your students entrust you with providing each of them with the skills they need to succeed.

Tim Shanahan recently posted a blog entry in which he answered a teacher’s question, regarding his “own thinking as well as research referencing the occasional use of decodable texts for small group reading instruction in grades K-2.” Shanahan commented on the research regarding the decodable text part of the request but missed an opportunity to link the text type with …

You are a change agent for your students. So take a deep breath and let us help you transition back into the mindset you need to help improve the lives of all your students.

We were honored to sit down with Leroy Gaines, principal of Acorn Woodland Elementary in Oakland, CA, and learn how the five charges inform his daily work, practice, and leadership.

With the new school year just around the corner (and for some, already beginning), ELA teachers across the country are preparing to usher the next generation further down the path of literacy. To that end, we asked our ELA team to share articles or books that have helped them improve their practice.  Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice …

How do we get students to engage authentically—to genuinely desire to communicate their ideas—in both ELA and math? This is a central question in Dr. Timothy Shanahan’s and Dr. Jeff Zwiers’ keynotes at the summer Standards Institute. United by a desire to improve student outcomes across the country, Shanahan and Zwiers implored participants to examine the role that language, specifically …

We recently sat down with Marc Etienne, Jose Guadarrama, and Norka Padilla to find out how they define equity and what it means in their system and classroom. Marc Etienne – Executive Director for Principal Support and Accountability for Baltimore City Public Schools As the executive director for principal support and accountability for Baltimore City Public Schools, I spend a …

In this episode, Sierah Tyson, the Education Nomad, sits down with Josh Parker of Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School in Washington, D.C. to talk about the inextricable link between standards and educational equity.

When I spend time in English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms, I pay careful attention to the questions teachers ask students as well as the students’ responses.

As a team of current and former classroom teachers, curriculum writers, school leaders and educators who have worked in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, we at UnboundEd know from the experience the hard work teachers face every day as they strive to help all of their students meet the challenges set by higher standards. That’s why Teacher Appreciation Week …