This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The ...

What is explicit, systematic phonics instruction? There is strong research-backed evidence that students will develop the necessary literacy skills to become proficient readers by third grade when ...

Rauno Parrila's research on reading has been funded by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, Government of Alberta, Alberta Teachers' Association, Australian Research Council, Finnish ...

A valuable pedagogical process is the concept and application of explicit teaching, chunking, and sequence learning. According to Edwards-Groves (2012), explicit teaching can be thought of as the ...

The ongoing debate between teacher-led and student-led learning is simplistic. Education is a complex field and teachers adapt their methods to context. It’s never just one or the other. Research has ...