Insights & Field Notes

Insights, field notes, and discussion topics fueling our work in designing equitable literacy.

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Scholarship Series: Struggling Adolescent Readers

The next installment of the Scholarship Series - "Struggling Adolescent Readers". Read this if you are a systems leader in a middle or high school with students who need literacy support (hint: you likely are).

ELA

Kate Crist

Oct 12 min read

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Curriculum as a Dinner Party: Selection Sets the Table, Implementation is Everything Else

Key Moves for Successful Implementation of HQIM

Curriculum

Kate Crist

Sep 96 min read

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Launching the Education 4500 Scholarship Series - Featuring, "Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents"

New for the 2025-2026 school year: Education 4500’s scholarship series. Every few weeks, I will feature a piece of literacy scholarship and a series of questions to help bridge that scholarship to literacy work in middle and high schools. The series will reflect what middle and high school educators I work with are currently using to frame and focus their literacy work.

ELA

Kate Crist

Aug 282 min read