Teachers can structure supports to guide English learners to speak and write using grade-level, discipline-specific language.

At the heart of all good teaching is the intent to help students grow and, ultimately, become independent learners. Scaffolding instruction—to support students through successive levels of ...

Are you a teacher, instructional coach, or school leader who is concerned about how to support all students in accessing grade-level texts? If so, you are not alone. In fact, in a survey last year, ...

As an educator with 30 years of experience in North Dakota’s public schools, I’ve witnessed students enter my classroom with varying degrees of readiness. In an effort to create more equitable ...

As schools everywhere shift to the Common Core, teachers are now realizing that they must now be able to determine the both the factors within a given text where students will need scaffolding as well ...

It’s one of the biggest challenges facing educators today: K–12 students who missed lengthy stretches of school because of the pandemic are still expected to meet the benchmarks of their grade level.

Today’s post is the second in a series on the hot-button issue of differentiated instruction. I teach an English as a second language (ESL) course at the university. I often am asked, “Professor, what ...