Writing Like Readers, Reading Like Writers

Best Practices in Writing Instruction Writing Like Readers, Reading Like Writers Nicole Godard  ·  HCSS Best Practices Over the last decade, I have tried every trick in the book to help demystify the complex work of writing for my students. Graphic organizers, sentence frames, miscellaneous acronyms… I’ve tried them all. Students would dutifully attempt to give me what I asked …

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From Belonging to Breaking Through: Supercharging Intervention for Struggling Learners

By Suleyman Demirhan March 2026  |  Education & Equity In my last post, I wrote about Belonging — the quiet but powerful belief that makes students try, persist, and grow. I explored how students who feel like they don’t belong pull away from learning, and how we as educators can send signals every day that say: you are home here. …

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