School Resources

Reaching & Teaching Them All

Making quick and lasting connections with every student in your classroom.

Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Intermediate Writing Grades 3–8

Powerful Understanding

Helping students explore, question, and transform their thinking about themselves and the world around them.

What Is a "Good" Teacher?

Cultivating Readers

Everything you need to take reading instruction beyond the skills to addressing the will.

Moving Math

How to use thinking skills to help students make sense of mathematical concepts and support numeracy development.

Take Me to Your Readers

How to use the best children's books to lead students to read, read, read.

Trudy's Rock Story Teacher Lesson Plan

Lesson plans and resources for teachers to accompany the book Trudy’s Rock Story by Trudy Spiller.

Literacy Out Loud

Creating vibrant classrooms where talk is the springboard for all learning.

How Do I Get Them to Write?

Explore the reading-writing connection using freewriting and mentor texts to motivate and empower students.

Keep Growing

How to encourage students to persevere, overcome setbacks, and develop a growth mindset.

Reading, Writing, Playing, Learning

Finding the sweet spots in kindergarten literacy.

Powerful Readers

Thinking strategies to guide literacy instruction in secondary classrooms.

Student Diversity

Teaching strategies to meet the learning needs of all students in K–10 classrooms.

The Sharing Circle Teacher Lesson Plan

Lesson Plans and resources for teachers that accompany the book The Sharing Circle by Theresa “Corky” Larsen-Jonasson.

Raven's Feast Teacher Lesson Plan

Lesson plans and resources for teachers to accompany the book Raven’s Feast by Kung Jaadee.

Dawn Flight A Lakota Story Teacher Lesson Plan

Lesson plans and resources for teachers to accompany the book Dawn Flight: A Lakota Story by Kevin Locke.

Le cercle de partage Teacher Lesson Plan

Lesson plans and resources for teachers to accompany the book Le cercle de partage by Theresa “Corky” Larsen-Jonasson.

Le festin du corbeau Teacher Lesson Plan

Lesson plans and resources for teachers to accompany the book Le festin du corbeau by Kung Jaadee.

Le caillou de Trudy Teacher Lesson Plan

Lesson plans and resources for teachers to accompany the book Le caillou de Trudy by Trudy Spiller.

L'envol de l'aube Teacher Lesson Plan

Lesson plans and resources for teachers to accompany the book L'envol de l'aube by Kevin Locke.

Literacy 101

Questions and answers that meet the needs of real teachers.

The Four Roles of the Numerate Learner

Effective teaching and assessment strategies to help students think differently about mathematics.

Substitute Teaching?

Everything you need to get the students on your side and teach them too! Ready-to-use tools, tips, and lesson ideas for every grade from K-8.