The Literacy Gap: Part 1 of 2
What is the Literacy Gap? The Literacy gap refers to the difference in reading skills and literacy achievement between students who have developed strong reading abilities and students who struggle to meet expected reading levels. This gap can appear in areas such as... read more
How AI is Revolutionizing Lesson Writing for Teachers
How AI is Revolutionizing Lesson Writing for Teachers In today’s fast-paced educational environment, teachers are often tasked with balancing lesson preparation, teaching, grading, and administrative work. As a result, finding ways to streamline lesson writing while... read more
How to Design Great Concept Development
How to Design Great Concept Development Ten thousand years ago people added with their fingers. Four thousand years ago they used an abacus. In the 1960s–calculators. Today, you can tell your cellphone to do the math for you. Although how to add has changed,... read more
Concept Development: What it is and Why it is Relevant
What is Concept Development? The Concept is the big idea or generalization contained in the Learning Objective. In Concept Development, you explicitly teach the students the concept, what it is, the generalization, the big idea. The Concept includes a written... read more
TAPPLE – How to Check for Understanding
TAPPLE: Real-Time Evidence of Learning TAPPLE is the best way to verify that students are learning while the teacher is teaching. DataWORKS developed TAPPLE as an easy way to remember the six research-based components of Checking for Understanding. Using TAPPLE,... read more