Tag: Literacy Improvement

ELA teachers asked students to connect their personal and cultural identity to the academic content at key junctures in their lessons.

Alec talks to Amiee Winchester, director of continuous improvement at Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS), and Zack Jaffe, a manager of continuous improvement at BCPS, about their improvement work on middle school and high school literacy, and particularly about the particular challenges and rewards of doing continuous improvement within a large urban school district.

Lesson study works especially well for areas of teaching that have rigorous research, like the science of reading.

Our topic was “close reading,” and when we were sharing strategies ...