An instructional leader in a Bay Area school district told me last week that while they are a bright spot in improving reading for the last three years, they still haven’t recovered to pre-pandemic ...

As artificial intelligence makes its way into more classrooms — and in light of this week’s executive order to increase AI education in K-12 schools — teachers may be looking for ways to embrace the ...

“Instruction Mode” refers to the manner in which UB provides typical classroom activities involving instructors and students, such as lectures, discussions and group engagement. Instruction Mode does ...

Early in our careers, when we were fresh-faced and idealistic (we still are!) the prepackaged curriculum and the advice of more experienced colleagues was the go-to resource. Largely, we were advised ...

Aconceptual model to describe how literacy develops is shown in Figure 1. It shows several key factors that affect learners’ literacy development—the learning context, texts and tools, literacy ...

As a writing across the curriculum scholar and programmer, I’ve been talking about artificial intelligence writing tools a lot lately. I’ve heard it all, from the woes and worries of students using ...

Writing is often difficult for educators to teach, challenging for students to do, and hard for administrators to monitor and evaluate. Yet writing well—and the high-quality writing instruction behind ...

Only two-thirds of college students in the United States have ever written a paper that's 10 pages or longer. This statistic is part of a new report by Primary Research Group, based on a survey of ...

The new question-of-the-week is: In what ways can writing support reading instruction? In Part One, Tony Zani, Mary Tedrow, Mary Beth Nicklaus, Colleen Cruz, and Pam Allyn shared their responses. You ...

Novice writers may struggle with conventions of academic writing, good habits and processes for developing academic essays, and/or grammar, mechanics and syntax. Through the directed self-placement ...

People write for a variety of purposes—including recording, persuading, learning, communicating, entertaining, self-expression, and reflection—and proficiency in writing for one purpose does not ...

The new question-of-the-week is: In what ways can reading support writing instruction? In Part One, Michelle Shory, Ed.S., Irina V. McGrath, Ph.D., Laura Robb, Lindsey Moses, and Laverne Bowers shared ...