Insights & Field Notes

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).

Key Moves for Successful Implementation of HQIM

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.

Just a few weeks into piloting the Tight10 in middle and high schools we are seeing momentum build.

This week we are thrilled to launch a pilot implementation project bringing fluency routines to older students through the Tight 10.

Delighted to have been a guest on the Grammar Girl podcast!

Knowledge building creates a bridge for older students - the road must be rich in vocabulary and composed of interrelated, engaging topics.

Students can accelerate their reading skills while focusing on course content. Really! Fluency routines are the way.

There is a real problem in secondary schools - too many students are struggling to read. The good news is, this problem is totally solvable.

Cross content learning moves engage students in reading, writing, and discussion to learn necessary content and skills.