Leading Learning
Teaching That Moves Students Forward
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Written By: Michael Small A strong lesson doesn’t start with a long lecture. It starts with a focused moment of teaching that gives students exactly what they need to enter the work with confidence and purpose. That moment is the mini-lesson. And when it’s designed well, it becomes the anchor that holds your whole class…
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Written By: Michael Small If you want small group instruction to work, you have to trust that the rest of the classroom can keep learning while you’re at the table with a group. That is one of the hardest shifts for teachers to make because it requires more than routines. It requires students who actually…
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Written By: Michael Small You learn a lot about students when you pay attention to what they show you during instruction. Not the big assessments or the next universal screener, but the quick pieces of information that tell you what they understand right now. A warm up, an exit ticket, a student explanation you overhear…
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