Teaching Unscripted

How to support new teachers' well being, build relationships in the community, and how to work with families and caregivers.

How to approach family interactions as a teacher. First, start from the basic assumption that all caregivers are trying to do their best for their child.

How can we make phonics instruction work for every child regardless of ability or background?

Don’t go at teaching alone. Your odds of joy and success go up when you enlist the help of a buddy, study partner, or mentor.

What is a Reading Strategy? How do they help build reading skills and knowledge? When teaching explicitly, strategies are essential to the learning process.

With real-world problem-solving, interactive activities, and adaptive learning pathways, Matific helps schools move beyond digitized worksheets to deliver meaningful, personalized math instruction.

Part four of our series The AI Conversation for Educators, hosted by Meenoo Rami. This series explores the question: How can we uphold human values and the purpose of education in a world shaped by generative AI?

How do you respond to requests for additional help, or staying after school? Before practicing self care, we must learn how to set healthy boundaries.

Help your students engage with reading! Moonlit Mountain Readers is a collection of decodable books designed to build phonics and early literacy skills through fantasy stories and engaging characters.

Part three of our series The AI Conversation for Educators, hosted by Meenoo Rami. This series explores the question: How can we uphold human values and the purpose of education in a world shaped by generative AI?

Teaching for Thinking is now available as an audiobook! Listen to the book in authors Grace Kelemanik and Amy Lucenta's voices.

When thinking about how to build our students’ vocabularies, it helps to consider that we learn words incrementally, through multiple exposures, and in waves; the difference between word breadth and depth; and when you learn one word, you learn multiple words.

Real-world content connects reading to the world around us, inspiring curiosity, building knowledge, and supporting literacy growth.

When uncomfortable conversations or questions arise around topics in books, we need to know how to respond. Pause calmly. Push back without shaming, and teach into a skill.

Part two of our series The AI Conversation for Educators, hosted by Meenoo Rami. This series explores the question: How can we uphold human values and the purpose of education in a world shaped by generative AI?

We're in a digital world now. Rather than try to avoid technology, we can embrace this moment by giving students opportunities to grow both their empathy and their critical thinking.

These checklists help you evaluate potential schools to find the right environment for you to thrive in, and methods for continued growth throughout the school year.

Part one of our series The AI Conversation for Educators, hosted by Meenoo Rami. This series explores the question: How can we uphold human values and the purpose of education in a world shaped by generative AI?