As a kindergarten teacher, Derrick Criner knows that progress is a process and trying new things may lead to enriching experiences. Initially, the 2013 Glacier High School grad thought he would go ...

I never thought I would love having a literacy teaching coach and their feedback, but I now believe it is something that can ...

A panel of experts told EdSource on Tuesday that for English language learners, it’s important to balance phonics and other reading skills all students need with opportunities to grow students’ ...

It’s been a big year for reading instruction. States have passed—or begun enacting—laws requiring evidence-based teaching for early learners. Hundreds of thousands of teachers have gone through new ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. When Esti Iturralde’s daughter Winnie was in first grade, the girl struggled with learning to read. Like most parents, Iturralde blamed ...

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...

A school system-run symposium over how to address a reading crisis began with the superintendent criticizing a nationwide move back toward phonics-centered teaching — then removal of the press before ...

Most secondary educators don't get much teacher preparation to help students struggling to read. Realizing that its teachers ...

Leclaire Elementary School’s Janna Beckmann has been teaching kindergarten for more than 15 years. A 2008 graduate of ...

North Carolina has spent more than $50 million in K-12 schools to overhaul how teachers help kids learn to read, with education leaders hoping a new phonics-heavy approach will reverse years of ...

Wu, 51, recently began her 28th year teaching kindergarten in Portland Public Schools, all but three years at Reiche, the ...