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Twitter 101: Grow Your Personal Learning Network

This is the second installment in Lexia's five-post Twitter 101 series. Read the first installment: Twitter 101: Start Your Own...

Lexia® Core5® Reading Supports Reading Growth for 3 School Years

Students who used Lexia® Core5® Reading throughout three school years showed significant gains on a standardized reading test each year, with nearly all students scoring in the average range or above by the end of the third year.

How to Help the Rising Number of English Learners Succeed in School

In classrooms across the United States, there is a growing number of English learners (ELs)—students who need support in order to become proficient...

Work-Based Learning: A New Frontier for Schools?

Work-based learning is an emerging, sought-after component of a 21st-century education. Indeed, a simple internet search for the term yields...

A Look Inside the Debate on Third-Grade Retention for Struggling Readers

“Before third grade, students learn to read; after third grade, they read to learn.”
This adage is often repeated in literacy education circles,...

3 Ways to Bring College and Career Focus to Middle School

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
We begin asking students about their dream careers in their very first years of school. Many of us can...

Simple Tips for Introducing the Latest Edtech Trends in the 2018–2019 School Year

A new school year signals new beginnings for all of us in the education world, whether we’re in the classroom ourselves or working behind the scenes....

Unpacking Personalized Learning: A Brief Primer and Implementation Guide

In 2015, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, launched a new philanthropic initiative dedicated in part to promoting a...

7 Quick and Easy Ways to Make the Most of Your Parent-Teacher Conference This School Year

Communication between home and school is essential to every student’s education. When parents and educators can work together to identify concerns...

Tackling the Literacy Needs of Younger Adolescents

Improving literacy rates among adolescent students is a growing area of focus in education, and rightfully so. Statistics from the most recent...

6 Things All Intentional School Leaders Do Right

Just like good teaching, good school leadership is an intentional practice built on study, revision, and honesty.There are very few administrators...

From the Factory to Student-Centered Learning: A Look at Education Theory

A frequent criticism of public education in the United States is its supposed resemblance to a factory. A 2012 article in The Atlantic went so far as...