China Harvey and Lisa Herzig's Teaching Beyond the Timeline released on April 16th! Watch the authors discuss how making history relevant for students is vital to their engagement and critical thinking skills ..read more

For educators looking for adaptive and personalized standards-aligned math activities, Matific’s award-winning educational technology helps cater to different learning styles and situations. Here are three effective ways schools can implement Matific’s rigorous pedagogy designed by educational experts from leading universities.   ..read more

For so long, history has been taught chronologically, but does it have to be and should it be? China Harvey and Lisa Herzig would argue that it does not and it should not. They are authors of the brand new book Teaching Beyond the Timeline: Engaging Students in Thematic History. And today we'll hear about their innovative approach to teaching history thematically. We'll explore the motivations behind this instructional shift, the challenges and triumphs they've encountered along the way, and the profound impact it has had on student engagement and understanding ..read more

Editor's note: This post is an excerpt from the report, "Saxon Phonics and Spelling: Science of Reading Instruction." It's been lightly adapted for format. All research citations can be accessed in the linked full report ..read more

The following is an adapted excerpt from China Harvey and Lisa Herzig’s forthcoming Teaching Beyond the Timeline ..read more

Welcome to Writing as Healing, a Heinemann podcast series focused on writing as a tool to increase healing in students and educators. We know that academic learning doesn’t happen without social and emotional support, and writing, as a key literacy, is uniquely positioned in every classroom to do both. This week Liz is joined by David Rockower, a freelance writer and Pennsylvania middle school teacher, to talk about writing with students as an act of community and vulnerability and using patience and writing invitations for apathetic students to take risks.  ..read more

Picture this: a classroom buzzing with the energy of discovery—where each lesson leads to new learning and every discussion contributes to deeper understanding. Content-rich classrooms making learning irresistible. Kids are asking questions, inferring, discussing, debating, creating, and generating new ideas.  ..read more

The following is an adapted excerpt from Grant Faulkner’s The Art of Brevity and an exercise from 100-Word Stories ..read more

The content of this post has been lightly adapted from A Guide to the Writing Workshop, 3–5, a component of the Units of Study in Writing, 3–5 sets ..read more

Welcome to Writing as Healing, a Heinemann podcast series focused on writing as a tool to increase healing in students and educators. We know that academic learning doesn’t happen without social and emotional support, and writing, as a key literacy, is uniquely positioned in every classroom to do both. This week Liz is joined by Stacey Joy, a self-published poet and California 5th grade teacher, to talk about composing poetry on the freeway, writing the golden shovel, and mentoring young teachers out of isolation and into self. Their conversation begins with Stacey’s reflection on just how ..read more