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Teaching Unscripted

A Heinemann blog for curious educators.

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Pilotmath

Looking for fresh approaches to teaching math to support your classroom needs? Pilot Heinemann math by filling out the form!

How Scaffolded Content Supports Math Intervention

In math intervention programs, scaffolding gives students the support they need to build confidence, strengthen their skills, and make real progress.

Why Is Building Knowledge Important in Literacy Learning?

Background knowledge acts as a framework that students can use to connect new information to what they already know, deepening their reading comprehension.

Teacher Tips with Berit Gordon

Are you thinking about how to use AI in ways that support, not replace, student thinking?

Join Us for the 2025 Heinemann Educator Summit: Connecting Research to Practice

Join the Heinemann Educator Summit, a free virtual event with on-demand recordings featuring sessions that connect research to practice and celebrate educators everywhere.

Inside the New Saxon Reading Foundations 2025 Updates

With refreshed materials, a new name and logo, and a clear instructional vision, Saxon Reading Foundations continues to evolve, empowering educators and helping students build the skills they need to become confident, successful readers.

What is Cognitively Guided Instruction HM Lx

What is CGI? Today we’ll give you an answer to help you decide if it might be right for your classroom.

Five Instructional Structures That Empower Confident, Engaged Math Learners

Discover five instructional structures that support differentiation and engagement in math—and how Math Expressions brings them to life in the classroom.

20waystouseai

What are the ways you can use A.I. as a teacher? How can students use A.I. to improve their work? Including title suggestions and revisions, A.I.-generated book covers, reflective rubrics, and brainstorming.

4 Tips to Build Background Knowledge and Boost Reading Comprehension

Content Area Reading Sets empower students to become confident, capable readers by integrating rich, real-world content into daily instruction.

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How do strategies help me differentiate instruction to better meet the needs of my students?

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Matific, a research-based K–6 supplemental math program, has been named a 2025 CODiE Awards finalist for Best Personalized Learning Solution, recognizing its innovative, game-based approach to engaging math instruction.

Teaching Problem-Solving in Math for Elementary Learners

By teaching students problem-solving skills, we are setting them up for success as they’ll be better prepared to face the future.

Sciencebehaviors

Every behavior is a child trying to communicate lack of a skill he is compensating for. Understand the science of the 'upstairs brain' and 'downstairs brain'.

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The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 helps you match lesson objectives to strategies; match standards to skill progressions and relevant strategies; and review student work to determine best strategies.

The Role of Independent Student Work in Effective Math Intervention

In math intervention, giving students time and space to work independently helps them build confidence, practice critical thinking, and apply what they’ve learned in meaningful ways.

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How does explicitly teaching strategies enhance your reading program?

Wellbeinggordon

Three practical strategies that address common problems new teachers face.

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