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Solving the Mysteries of Vowels

By Voyager Sopris

Understanding vowels is a building block for literacy. Why do young students make so many errors reading and sounding out vowels? How can educators and administrators help students overcome the most common struggles with understanding vowels? In this brief and informative webinar, literacy expert and researcher Dr. Louisa Moats helps to demystify vowels and shares […]

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Improving Reading outcomes Through Goal Setting and Progress Monitoring

Supporting learning and engagement with audiobooks

Reading & Literacy Stories

September 01, 2020

District seeing significant gains from supplemental early literacy program

Situated outside of San Francisco, the Mountain View Whisman School District (MVWSD) has a highly diverse socioeconomic student population. Of the district’s 5,344 students, 35 percent are socioeconomically disadvantaged and 24 percent are English language learners, with some 50 languages represented. Academically, early literacy had been one of the district’s most significant challenges. In 2018, […]

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July 23, 2020

Educator Accountability: Preparing for the Tough Literacy Challenges Faced by ELLs

Many schools and districts are failing to support ELL students by not providing educators with the knowledge they need to teach reading effectively. With literacy leading as the main indicator of academic success, it is crucial that educators prepare ELLs for the tough challenges they face along the path to literacy, and help these students […]

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June 19, 2020

How educators can be part of dismantling systemic racism

Evidence of systemic racism exists in schools even in progressive cities where "Black and brown" students are still too often labeled as underperforming, expert says.

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May 27, 2020

How Miami-Dade aims to tackle the 'COVID slide'

Personalized learning in summer school and an early start to the school year anchor Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho's aggressive plan to close coronavirus achievement gaps.

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May 26, 2020

Using Data to Improve Student Outcomes in the Context of COVID-19

“Relationships before rigor, grace before grades, patience before programs, love before lessons.” —Dr. Brad Johnson. Learn More About Acadience Learning Months ago, when I was tasked with writing a blog about using student data to improve outcomes, our lives were very different from where they are now. I had some ideas about what I wanted to […]

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