Professional Learning Worth Having
Every educator has at least one professional development horror story, and those make it hard to imagine advocating FOR more …
New Teacher Preparation
How were you prepared to be a teacher? If you’re a teacher of literacy, what supports did you get …
Digital-Literacy and Composition
This post was submitted by Mabel Khawaja, an 51ÁÔÆæ Higher Education Policy Analyst who teaches literature and composition courses at …
Defining the Role of Standardized Tests
One of the biggest problems with the hotly debated standardized tests of our day is that we have come to …
Growing in Advocacy
The following post is by Lu Ann McNabb, 51ÁÔÆæ Policy And Alliances Associate. When my daughter started kindergarten, I offered to …
10 Tips for Advocacy
The following post is from Lu Ann McNabb, 51ÁÔÆæ Policy And Alliances Associate. In my experience as an advocate for many …
Assessment Outside the Box (or Bubble)
Nobody is satisfied with standardized tests as the best form of assessment, but it will take some innovative thinking to …
To Advocate or Not to Advocate
The following blog post was written by 51ÁÔÆæ Policy Analyst Kristen Nielsen and reflects her own views. You can read …
Taking a Formative Assessment Stance
Much attention has been paid to the big high-stakes assessments that are raising blood pressure across the country—but there’s another …
A Community Literacy Project
Literacy education advocacy isn’t always about politics. Sometimes it’s about starting a community literacy project right in your own backyard. We …