A Heinemann blog for curious educators.
Background knowledge acts as a framework that students can use to connect new information to what they already know, deepening their reading comprehension.
October 7, 2025
Are you thinking about how to use AI in ways that support not replace student thinking?
October 6, 2025
With refreshed materials, a new name and logo, and a clear instructional vision, Saxon Reading Foundations continues to evolve, empowering educators and helping students build the skills they need to become confident, successful readers.
What is CGI? Today we’ll give you an answer to help you decide if it might be right for your classroom.
October 3, 2025
Discover five instructional structures that support differentiation and engagement in math—and how Math Expressions brings them to life in the classroom.
What are the ways you can use A.I. as a teacher? How can students use A.I. to improve their work? Including title suggestions and revisions, A.I.-generated book covers, reflective rubrics, and brainstorming.
October 2, 2025
Content Area Reading Sets empower students to become confident, capable readers by integrating rich, real-world content into daily instruction.
September 29, 2025
How do strategies help me differentiate instruction to better meet the needs of my students?
Matific, a research-based K–6 supplemental math program, has been named a 2025 CODiE Awards finalist for Best Personalized Learning Solution, recognizing its innovative, game-based approach to engaging math instruction.
September 26, 2025
By teaching students problem-solving skills, we are setting them up for success as they’ll be better prepared to face the future.
Every behavior is a child trying to communicate lack of a skill he is compensating for. Understand the science of the 'upstairs brain' and 'downstairs brain'.
September 25, 2025
The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 helps you match lesson objectives to strategies; match standards to skill progressions and relevant strategies; and review student work to determine best strategies.
September 24, 2025
In math intervention, giving students time and space to work independently helps them build confidence, practice critical thinking, and apply what they’ve learned in meaningful ways.
September 22, 2025
How does explicitly teaching strategies enhance your reading program?
Three practical strategies that address common problems new teachers face.
By turning proven research into practical classroom resources, Content Area Reading Sets help students grow into confident, capable readers.
September 19, 2025
Personalized math learning is central to helping educators close learning gaps, build student confidence, and make math meaningful.
September 18, 2025
What makes a student want to write? How can we help students with long-held aversions to writing come to view writing as an invitation to create, to become, and to belong? Listen to the audiobook of Youth Scribes: Teaching a Love of Writing, written and read by R. Joseph Rodríguez
September 15, 2025
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