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English Language Learners First-Grade Guided Group

Stella Villalba leads a guided reading group for first-grade English language learners, beginning by building vocabulary.  

Coaching Minute: Establishing Expertise

Principal Lee Snider talks about how principals can support struggling teachers by establishing their expertise and visiting classrooms often.

Coaching Minute: Clarifying a Vision

Inga Omondi encourages asking questions during meetings to determine how a vision needs to be clarified.

Quick Take: Special Library Shelves

Christy Rush-Levine shares a few special shelves in her classroom library.

Word Study Literacy Team Meeting

    The literacy team is a group of teachers who meet once or twice a month to study and discuss literacy across the whole school. The team consists of...

Tips for Personalizing PD

In this five-minute video, Cathy Mere and Kelly Hoenie talk about how coaches can help teachers personalize their professional development through activities like "Pineapple Week."

Coaching Minute: The Power of Video Debriefs

Jean Russell explains why she captures her coaching debriefs with teachers, and how these videos serve as powerful tools for learning.

Coaching Minute: Getting into Classrooms

Principal Lee Snider talks with literacy coach Lora Bieghler about being intentional about getting into classrooms.

Teaching Punctuation Through Shared Reading in Kindergarten

The first purpose of shared reading is to provide children with an enjoyable reading experience, to introduce them to a variety of authors and illustrators and the ways these communicators...

Name Practice in Kindergarten

Max Brand's kindergarten class of mostly English language learners completes their daily routine of name practice, and in the process learns letters and sounds while building classroom community.    

Test: Weekly Poetry Response

Test Weekly Poetry Response for PD2Go with Gretchen Schroeder

Inside and Outside Views Minilesson

Ruth Ayres explains the importance of "inside" and "outside" views in writing using a student mentor text in this lesson with second graders.  

Philanthropy and Literacy: Wrap-Up

In this second video in a two-part series, Beth Honeycutt and Rita Schaeffer help their eighth-grade students understand the concept of philanthropy.