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The Choice Literacy library contains over 3,000 articles and 900 videos from 150+ contributors. Classic Classroom and Literacy Leadership subscribers have access to the entire library. Content is updated continuously, with five to six new features published each week.
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March 27, 2026: Special Edition: Spring Break
This week’s newsletter is a special edition curated with articles inspiring teachers to thrive.
March 20, 2026: Stay Mentally Fit!
This week’s newsletter is healthy mental wellness for teachers.
Building Community and Culture with a Restorative Approach
Rather than focus on managing student behavior, Leigh Anne Eck considers restorative practices. In this article she shares about proactive circles with a literacy twist.
Navigating Complex Conversations with Young Children
Sometimes, in a world that feels divisive and intense, it is hard to sit before a rug full of children and teach the next phoneme sound or math strategy. Becca Burk shares practical strategies for navigating tricky conversations with young children. From books to read, conversation stems, and how to return to academic learning, Becca leads us all in knowing how to steady the room, and then teach.
March 6, 2026: Navigating a Literacy Curriculum
This week’s newsletter is about navigating a literacy curriculum.
Pattern Seeking and Visualizing Numbers Lesson Structure
Powerful images, diagrams, and visuals can spark curiosity and encourage students to make connections they may not make otherwise. Mallory Messenger shares three number visuals and gives practical applications for any math classroom. Don’t miss her list of resources.
Tips for Navigating a Scripted Literacy Program
Mandy Robek offers encouragement and tips for teachers who are navigating a highly structured literacy curriculum.
February 27, 2026: The Power of Reading
This week’s newsletter is about making time for independent reading.
The Chain
Gretchen Schroeder addresses the doomsday messages about students’ reading abilities and then lets us peek into her high school classroom of active readers.
February 20, 2026: Routines for Literacy
This week’s newsletter is about routines for literacy.
February 13, 2026: Special Edition: Straight from the Heart
This week’s newsletter is a special edition curated with articles straight from the hearts of our contributors.
February 6, 2026: Using Literacy for Good
This week’s newsletter is about using literacy for good.
What Type of Mistake Was It?
How can we help students reflect on their mistakes so that they can be honest with themselves about the type of error they made? Mallory Messenger offers suggestions for how to position students to reflect on their mistakes during problem solving.
January 30, 2026: Keep Steady
This week’s newsletter is about staying grounded when change happens.
From Meet-Cutes to Happily-Ever-Afters: A Romance Genre Study
Gretchen Schroeder decided to capitalize on her high school students’ interest in romance novels and designed a genre study. Romance novels may not seem like the most obvious choice for academic rigor, but they offered a shared language to talk about love, power, identity, and relationships—conversations that matter both on and off the page.
January 23, 2026: Let’s Talk about Books!
This week’s newsletter highlights the Book Guides.
January 16, 2026: The Humanity of Teaching
This week’s newsletter is a reminder abut the heart of teaching..
Short Story Anthologies
Melissa Quimby makes a case for short story anthologies and invites you to explore some of her favorite collections.
December 12, 2025: Let Choice Shine
This week’s newsletter is about practical ways to offer students choice.
December 5, 2025: Be Yourself (It’s Enough)
This week’s newsletter is about the importance of showing up fully as yourself and finding joy in uplifting readers and writers.
November 28, 2025: Hunt for the Celebration
This week’s newsletter is a note from Ruth.
November 21, 2025: Food and Community
This week’s newsletter is about food and community.
November 14, 2025: Protecting Inquiry
This week’s newsletter is about protecting inquiry.
Just Ask Them: Including Students in the Feedback Process
Hypothesizing what our students might be thinking eats into our time to act upon what they’re actually thinking. Heather Fisher suggests, “Let’s just ask the students.” Heather outlines a process for gathering responses from students of all ages and compiling the data to make it useful in determining next steps.
Protecting Choice and Inquiry with Outdoor Learning Walks
As curriculum shifts in our buildings to feeling more structured, Kate Mills and Tara Barnett reflect on how to protect student choice and opportunities for inquiry. They share a simple and practical way to create opportunity for both choice and inquiry through outdoor learning.
November 7, 2025: Tools to Foster Independence
This week’s newsletter is about fostering independence with tools.
Leveling Up The Locker Problem
Finding a task as rich as The Locker Problem is a bit like finding the perfect read aloud. Jodie Bailey guides us to recognize different ways to turn a seemingly mundane problem into a rich task.
Those Pictures You Make: Personalized Tools to Help Students
Becca Burk shares how to personalize tools for students to build independence in their academics and emotional regulation.
Fostering Independence with Tools
Melissa Quimby tackles the question of how to foster more independence in her students. She considers the way tools can help scaffold independence. Melissa offers an in-depth conversation that examines what tool to create, how to introduce it, and where to store it.
October 31, 2025: Moments to Cherish
This week’s newsletter is about noticing and cherishing special moments in classrooms.
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