Look, I get it. As educators, we’re swimming in data, and Lexile scores feel like a life raft, a tidy little number that promises to show how well our kids are reading. But chasing that number is like trying to catch a cloud: it looks solid from a distance, but up close, it slips right […]
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There’s a mindset in education that’s easy to slip into and even easier to stay stuck in. It’s the belief that there’s one right way to teach. That if we just commit fully to one method, whether that’s direct instruction, inquiry-based learning, content-first, or thinking-skills-driven, we’ll land on the “best” approach for every learner. But
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Picture this: a classroom buzzing with energy. One learner rattling off facts like it’s nothing. Another stuck on question one, unsure where to start. The difference? It’s not intelligence. Not even effort. It’s what they walked in with. Some show up already loaded: homes full of books, rich conversations, museum trips, story time routines that
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