Georgia, your "High-Quality Materials" list misses the mark when it ignores usability. The Curriculum Insight Project can't get here soon enough. Curriculum Insight Project GaDOEELA GaDOEsped NAACP Georgia

Amy Willis I see curricula with 10 manuals. Call it what you want, but nobody is bringing home 10 books a night... not if they want to save their marriage.

Today was a first.❤️ A wonderful group of teachers used a new TWR strategy in their thank you and end of the day Exit Ticket: We really enjoyed your session BECAUSE…we always leave our sessions with things we can use with our students. We really enjoyed your session BUT…it

New Blog Post 📝 Etymology in science usually stops at photosynthesis, but I use it almost every single lesson. Here are a few stories of some of my lessons and the impact teaching etymology has made on pupil understanding and literacy. inquestion.co.uk/2025/11/28/ety…

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Lots of great papers from PreK/K on building vocab networks, usually by using text sets. But if you try to apply this systemically to content you are restricted to available books. For plants and animals this may work fine but it will fall apart... tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

Here's my interview with Holly Korbey about why schools feel chaotic and disconnected. Students get different expectations in every classroom, and teachers waste time on new platforms instead of solving real teaching problems. The fix is simple: school leaders should focus on

Recent Educators for Excellence (E4E) poll of MA teachers: 83% support the use of evidence-based teaching materials. Teachers have a reputation for being anti-curriculum, but I fondly it’s changing as the materials on the market improve.

This month, the Massachusetts senate will consider a bill to restrict local control in curriculum selection. It passed the House unanimously. I wrote about it recently. MTA opposed the bill, but resistance from the education community has been surprisingly low. I think the

Michelle Karen Vaites Say it louder, please. If the district's plan is to pick a curriculum so convoluted that educators need to go home and spend all their non-work time preparing... then the plan was flawed from the start. It has to fit their teachers' context. Otherwise, it won't be systematic

Such a good (implied) point that teachers are only "anti-curriculum" because they are given poor curriculum! In my experience with early elementary, teachers love good curriculum that is easy to use.

My kingdom for a math workbook I can use fresh out of the box

I’ve been thinking a lot about the conversations in education this week. It feels like we’re getting more and more pulled into tribes, explicit instruction on one side, inquiry on the other, as if choosing a method is the same as choosing an identity.

Kristin T Curriculum Insight Project GaDOEELA GaDOEsped NAACP Georgia The reviews themselves are often problematic

Kareem J. Weaver Curriculum Insight Project Amy Willis No one is bringing home 10 manuals if they want to have a back and shoulders and knees that last.

“It looks like engagement. Every sense is amplified and overwhelmed. But often it’s superficial: the quick thinkers dominate, the quiet ones disappear, and everyone moves on before true understanding forms.” This. When teacher evals mistake “engagement” for “learning.”🙄

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Make the Connection When you really want something to “stick”, there are good neuropsychological arguments for putting a pen – or a stylus – in students’ hands. kirschnered.nl/2025/12/01/mak…

Dana Palubiak I mean some of the curriculum out there right now is pretty awful I’d say it’s both

Have you ever worked with students who complain that they can't remember ANYTHING that they're read?? 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️ Then please read this piece!!!! And try out Faith's routine: FASE Reading + retrieval practice + gist statements