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Empower Your Teaching with Personal Word Walls!

teachific Posted by Sharon Callen 18 February 2024 Looking for a fun and effective way to boost your students' vocabulary? Say hello to Personal Word Walls! These nifty tools are like personalised dictionaries designed to bring high-frequency words right into your...

How the Nation’s Top Teachers Prevent Burnout

Education Week Feb 4, 2026 by Sarah D. Sparks Katie Collins is one of the nation’s top teachers. And not long ago, she thought of leaving the classroom. “I was on a carpet with kids, feeling alone, even though I have so much support at my school and everybody is all...

We do not advocate for a particular approach to teaching reading; instead, we center children, arguing that HOW you teach reading MUST be determined by WHO you are teaching. Anything else is flawed.

Reading is a “complex, multidimensional cognitive process situated in and mediated by social and cultural practices” (Moje, 2018, p. 2), and “teaching depends on knowing what students know and can do and then determining what they need” (p. 3). We base this claim...