This article provides suggestions for how to improve your active listening skills -- and that you could use with your students.

This website provides tools to help literacy leaders identify and select engaging texts for readers who may struggle, as well as teaching tools to help integrate these types of texts into their curriculum.

The focus of the Adding Up to Four Two-Digit Numbers intervention is adding two-digit numbers with base ten blocks.There are four phases to this intervention. Phases 1 to 3 focus on adding 2 two-digit numbers and progress from no regrouping to regrouping in both the ones and tens. Phase 4 focuses on adding 3 or 4 two-digit numbers.

This microcredential represents a teacher’s ability to understand and respond to progressions related to addition and subtraction with rational numbers, including conceptualizations, properties, strategies, and representations, by planning and implementing instruction based on the Standards for Mathematical Practice and Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices. It includes selecting, using, and adapting mathematics curricula and teaching materials, including the integration of mathematical tools and technology, as well as using and analyzing formative and summative assessments to determine where students are in learning addition and subtraction with rational numbers. This is the fifth of seven microcredentials in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

This microcredential represents educators' administration and use of the norm referenced FitnessGram assessments. They will also personally complete some of the FitnessGram assessments.

This PDF houses different supplemental programs and interventions for use with adolescent students. It was authored by Cynthia Shanahan and Learning Point Associates and is available on the WWC website.

This microcredential stack allows a path for those seeking to obtain the instructional coaching endorsement to certify competency for Area 2 - Adult Learning Theory. To be eligible for this path, you must have had the position of instructional coach for at least three years.

This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.

This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.

This website is a compilation of fantastic resources for any reading teacher. This page on the website provides a brief overview of before, during, and after reading strategies, as well as links with detailed information about a variety of strategies and downloadable resources for the classroom. They also provide recommended additional reading for interested viewers.

This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.

This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.

In this practical and accessible flipchart, Janet Allen shares the research-based foundations to effective vocabulary study and practical strategies for implementing them into classroom practice.

This Goshute alphabet (ABC) coloring book is a part of the Native American Indian Literacy Project storybook series for the six main Utah Tribal Nations. There are five stories per Tribe, with a total of 30 booklets, plus an ABC book. The set of Indian Tribal stories may be utilized by elementary classroom teachers to (1) develop an understanding and appreciation of Native American culture and societal contributions (2) provide a genre of text for the application of reading strategies, and (3) facilitate the mastery of various Utah Core Content Curriculum objectives. The Native American Indian Literacy Project was made possible by funds from the Utah State Office of Education (USOE). It is a joint effort of the USOE and San Juan School District Media Center.

This article explains how teachers can read texts through the lens of preparing to teach the text and provides a model for reading as a teacher.

This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.

This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.

This book explores how to support student sensemaking of science concepts. It includes specific vignettes, examples, and practical suggestions for implementing in the classroom.