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The Water Walkers
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Water is the quiet thing we all depend on, until someone treats it like it’s sacred and suddenly you can’t stop paying attention. Fro…
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What If Student Choice Is The Missing Link In Literacy Growth
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Reading growth doesn’t always come from a brand-new curriculum. Sometimes it comes from one small shift: letting students have real c…
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Turning Letters Into Friends With Letterland
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Letters can be surprisingly hard for young kids. They’re just shapes until a child can link each squiggle to a sound, then blend thos…
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Phonics You Can Hold
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A lot of reading struggles aren’t about effort, they’re about abstraction. When phonics rules live only on a worksheet or a whiteboar…
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Why Kids Need Stories About Depression
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Stories can change a kid’s life when they finally feel recognized on the page. From the NCRA conference in North Carolina, we sit dow…
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An Authentic 1950 Charlotte Story
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A blue-and-white teacup doesn’t sound like a doorway into history, until you hear what it unlocks in Half Truths. Recording live from…
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A Ghost Town Mystery And A Robot Tutor
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AI is everywhere in students’ lives, but what if we used it to push them outside instead of pulling them deeper into screens? From th…
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Literacy For A Reimagined World
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Literacy is getting rewritten in real time and educators don’t have the option to sit it out. From NCRA in Winston-Salem, we sit down…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Dandelion Magic And The Power Of Words
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A dandelion wish sounds small until it spins into a full-blown adventure. From the NCRA floor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, we si…
4 weeks ago
A Twitter Pitch Turns Into A Book Deal
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A children’s picture book can start in a surprising place: a string quartet performing a concert for plants. From the NCRA conference…
4 weeks ago