Stories

Let's Focus on Our Students' Health and Humanity, Not on 'Getting Back to Normal'

Jessica N. Ewalt, Ph.D., is an educator in the Gwinnett County Public School system. Her research focuses on the implications of critical race theory in high school social studies classrooms. Matthew...

equity

To Teach Black Children Superbly Is a Revolutionary Act

Dear Freedom School Literacy Team, Across the nation, we started the summer of 2020, lighting up the streets with rage. We rage for George Floyd’s senseless strangulation. We rage for Ahmaud Arbery,...

IEP

My Son Cracked the Code in an Atypical Way With a Focus on Phonics

When my three older children learned to read, it seemed to us as natural a process as learning to talk. We read to them every day and filled the house with children’s books and made regular trips to...

student support

Literacy Needs to Be at the Forefront of Instruction When Schools Reopen

According to the most recent report by the National Association for Educational Progress, 64% of all fourth grade students in America are unable to read proficiently. The number increases to 78% in...

Special Education

I Learned How to Fight for My Child When He Couldn't Read. Now I Help Other Parents Do the Same.

Advocating for your own kid, or teaching other people—doctors, dentists, teachers, etc.—about your kid, is something you learn as you go along. Even if you don’t work with any single barrier for...

student support

If You Want to Know What Works for Students With Dyslexia, Ask Them

Imagine you are a mature, intelligent middle-school student who finds it difficult to write anything—numbers or letters—on paper in a way that makes sense. You have dyslexia and struggle because...

AI In The Classroom: What A Year Has Taught Us

Let's Focus on Our Students' Health and Humanity, Not on 'Getting Back to Normal'

To Teach Black Children Superbly Is a Revolutionary Act

My Son Cracked the Code in an Atypical Way With a Focus on Phonics

Literacy Needs to Be at the Forefront of Instruction When Schools Reopen

I Learned How to Fight for My Child When He Couldn't Read. Now I Help Other Parents Do the Same.

If You Want to Know What Works for Students With Dyslexia, Ask Them