HeyJaredQuill and the Classroom
Field notes from literacy classrooms across the country, focused on reading, writing, and the real work of turning research into practice.
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The Differentiation Trap (opens the original)
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Imagine you’re at the front of a fifth-grade classroom, preparing to teach the day’s reading lesson. You survey the broad range of knowledge and skills your students have mastered so far, and the differences are daunting. One kid breezes though Percy Jackson novels in his spare time. Another reads grade-level text slowly and laboriously.What’s the quickest, kindest way to get everyone productively engaged?The answer most teachers have been given, for years, is differentiation. We “meet students
A Back-to-School Playbook for School Leaders (opens the original)
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It’s August, which means it’s back-to-school season, and there is a certain buzz in the air. Local stores are stocked with fresh pencils and notebooks. Teachers are arranging their classrooms with excitement. Kids are begging their parents for the latest back-to-school kicks.Ambitions are high. Parents like me are optimistic: This is going to be our year—the one where we finally stop turning in permission slips five minutes before they are due, after finding them crumpled at the bottom of a mess
The Other (Unscientific) Baseball Study (opens the original)
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A couple of weeks ago, my colleagues at Knowledge Matters asked me what I’ve been thinking about lately. My answer was predictable: “Mostly baseball.”We talk a lot about the “baseball study” around here—that influential experiment in which researchers asked a bunch of middle-schoolers to read a text about baseball and then describe what they had read. The kids who understood the passage best weren’t the best readers. It was the kids who knew the most about the game.But
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