Delve into our curated articles designed to enhance and support best practices in the dynamic world of charter school education, brought to you by the Florida Charter Institute.
In recent blogs, we’ve spotlighted the importance of intentional knowledge building, and, specifically, purposeful lesson launching and explicit vocabulary instruction. We know there is need: recent nationwide NAEP reading results shouldn’t be overlooked – and while there has been significant progress to date in the Science of Reading movement, it
I recently enjoyed sitting in a 3rd-grade literacy class midway through E.B. White’s classic, Charlotte’s Web. As the teacher facilitated a beautiful shared reading of a new chapter, students encountered the following exchange between Charlotte and a fellow animal: The teacher smartly paused, realizing the difficulty of the section, and
Here at FCI, we’ve been thinking about the power of background knowledge to drive student learning for much of this fall. It all started with a visit from esteemed cognitive scientist and University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham at a convening of our distinguished school leader Fellowship – and suddenly,
Over the past few weeks, we’ve written a series of posts on enhancing instructional leadership practice, including maximizing observation time at the beginning of the year and once classroom foundations have been established. However, determining an impactful action step is only the first step in instructional coaching – and, on
In our last post on developing leaders as instructional coaches, we dove into the foundations of classroom observation, focusing on effective beginning-of-year practices. Once classroom foundations are set for the teachers we coach, it’s time to shift our observation eye to ensuring student learning is happening. In today’s post, we’ll outline a
We’re excited to dive into our second installment on developing school leaders as instructional coaches. Last month, we focused on establishing coaching foundations; today, we’ll center the conversation around observation and feedback practice – and specifically, what that can look like at the beginning of a school year. Read on
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