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


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).
Kate Crist
Oct 1, 20252 min read


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.
Kate Crist
Aug 28, 20252 min read


The Tight10 in Action: Early Wins for the Fluency Pilot
Just a few weeks into piloting the Tight10 in middle and high schools we are seeing momentum build.
Kate Crist
May 14, 20254 min read


Launching the Tight 10 in Middle and High Schools
This week we are thrilled to launch a pilot implementation project bringing fluency routines to older students through the Tight 10.
Kate Crist
Mar 19, 20255 min read
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