Insights & Field Notes

As 2025 comes to a close, I find myself reflecting with gratitude and clarity. This year, Education 4500 engaged across many layers of the education ecosystem—from policy design to curriculum review to working alongside high school teachers. I remain deeply grateful for the opportunity to do this work, especially in collaboration with practitioners and leaders who care deeply about adolescent literacy. As I look back on this year and head to next, several lessons stand out.

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.