by Kelley Gangi, M.Ed., Ed.D, Candidate, TLA Director of School Redesign Does your classroom reflect a balance of rich reading, authentic writing, fundamental word study skills or phonics, and joyous read alouds? Does your practice release responsibility of the cognitive heavy-lifting gradually to your students through thinking aloud, explicit modeling, guided practice, and independent application?Has post-common core testing caused you to rethink every anchor chart and mentor text over [...]
