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Teaching Reading, Not Teaching About Reading: Explicit Phonics and the Foundational Literacy Crisis

Millions of Indian children complete primary school without learning to read fluently. This is not because they lack intelligence. It is because the teaching of reading has been treated as something that happens naturally rather than something that must be explicitly taught. A contributing voice from policy analysis  |  Specialist in education equity, school improvement, […]

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What the Back Row Is Telling You: Formative Assessment and the Daily Diagnostic Teacher

The most useful information about whether children are learning is generated inside the classroom, every lesson — and most of it is ignored. Not because teachers do not care, but because nobody has taught them to look. A contributing voice from school practice  |  Specialist in child development, wellbeing, and community engagement This essay addresses […]

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