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Through a dynamic partnership model, we support the development of exemplary educators, visionary school leaders, and high-achieving students.

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We are the partner to help you lead through instructional change.

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For Coaches

Coaches are the catalyst for change in our classrooms.

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Good teaching has the greatest impact on student learning outcomes.

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Our Impact on Education

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Sep 5

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For many schools , today is the BIG day! We know it's one of anticipation, with new hopes and dreams for learning and joy.

We are cheering you on and are here to support you with back to school and beyond, because #togetherwetransform.

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Aug 9

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📘 What are you reading today?

#internationalbooklovers
#booklover
#readingispower

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Aug 8

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Jul 27

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👩🏽‍🏫 Messages that Matter: ABC's for launching a year with JOY.

📝 Our latest blog post is up where we share our thoughts about how to incorporate a both/and approach, instill a cornerstone instructional practice, and inspire teaching and learning. 💙

Link in Bio!

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Jul 26

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What brings you joy? 💙

🙋🏽‍♀️ Learn with us this year about how to center JOY in your literacy instruction.

📚 Over the next few weeks we will be unpacking our core values about effective literacy instruction.

☀️ We hope this series will help you as you refresh this summer and begin to think ahead to the start of the school year.

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Jul 11

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💙 LITERACY SHOULD BE JOYFUL! 💙
There should not be false choices in literacy education.
📖 As PD providers for preK-12 schools across the country, TLA is uniquely positioned to see and support literacy practices in schools that excel.
✅ Learn with us during our free webinar on:
Wednesday, July 26th
11am - 12pm EST
focusing on JOYful literacy, our unique approach to professional development that builds off of Duke & Cartwright's Active View of Reading. We will share tools to help you name and navigate literacy practices that support whole child, whole teacher, & whole school learning.

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Jun 22

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💙What an honor to celebrate Mary Grassi, from our partner district of Cambridge, MA for her 49 years of service to the city!

🔤 As Director of Title 1, Mary served her community with wisdom, humor and most of all passion for doing the best thing for the children of Cambridge. At her retirement party, she encouraged us to play Summer Reading Bingo, and to honor this outstanding educator, we'd love for you to do the same! 📚 Want the bingo card as a PDF? Click the link in Bio!

✅ In the comments, pick a category and name a book you think your colleagues and friends would enjoy reading this summer! Try it like this: Category Mystery Books--Title "The Woman in the Library" Have a wonderful summer reading!

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Jun 13

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😎 Summer time is just around the corner. As educators, this is a time of reflection and refreshing. One of the best ways to both pause and push forward is reading professional books.

📚Here are a few that we have on our summer reading list:   🖼️1. Unearthing Joy by Gholdy Muhammad
📖2. The Commonsense Guide to your Classroom Library by Donalyn Miller & Colby Sharp
🔤3. Phonics from A to Z by Wiley Blevins
📝4. Teaching Phonics & Word Study in the Intermediate Grades by Wiley Blevins
💚5. Read-Aloud with Heart by Dana Clark, Keisha Smith-Carrington, & Jigish Vyas
📙6. Micro-Mentor Texts by Penny Kittle

🙋🏽‍♀️What’s on yours?

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May 4

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💙 Educators as Writers Retreat 📝 May 3, 2023  One post, a few photos, and a caption will not begin to do justice to the beautiful, brilliant work that we experienced yesterday. At the serene Cedar Hill Retreat Center in Duxbury, Mass educators from across the country and from all roles, came together for a day of hope, healing and possibility. We wrote. We feasted. We sat by the ocean. We made books. We read books. We cried. We share our stories and ourselves and all came back a little better and braver because of it.   TLA is committed to transforming education. A cornerstone of that work is supporting educators. We do this with research based, content-rich, inspirational professional development, and with beautiful safe spaces for educators to be embraced as holistic human beings.

Stay tuned for more to come. 💙

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Dec 13

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🪧Small group instruction is essential.

📑A great day of planning for meaningful, efficient and transferable groups.

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Nov 14

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Preparing for a PD and thinking through all the learning from this incredible text from @juliablindsey 💙

Teaching reading feels like a minefield these days, but this book and Shifting the Balance are two great resources for teachers to take effective and efficient steps for their students.

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Oct 26

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✅ Looking at student work
✅ Making micro-progressions
✅ Seeing kids grow as writers

We are doing a lot of work this fall around thin-slicing. Want to learn more about how to make micro-progressions?

😎 Check out our new blog !

🔗 Link in bio !

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Aug 12

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Oral storytelling, interactive writing, play and literacy learning. A great summer institute with grade K & 1 in Nashua.

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Aug 4

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☀️It's a scorcher today! We are keeping busy preparing for the cooler days of fall. 🍂

💙 But not all preparation is heavy lifting. Staying current in our own reading lives is important too. Here's a taste of our #graphicnovel book club choices. Have you read any of these titles ? 📘

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Jun 16

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At TLA, we talk with our hands 🙌🏼. ☀️Our elementary team came together, reflecting on our learning from this past year to grow our own thinking and learning. 💙

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May 11

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📊 Are you creating and using microprogressions in your coaching or teaching?

✅ Here are three sample that were made after looking at student writing in second, first and kindergarten.

💙 We love these tools because they help build our own teacher toolkit, support student ownership and transfer. They are adaptable and usable in conferences, small groups and even whole group lessons.

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May 3

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📚We are always looking for texts that will get our kids hooked. 🤓

Sometimes that’s a funny text, a character who is a little mischievous, or a great series. Here are some that are currently capturing the imagination of a range of readers in our classrooms. 💙

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May 2

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🤓 Looking out at a sea of blank faces? Here’s a quick tip. 💡

🙋🏽‍♀️ Instead of asking the class “Who remembers?” or “Who can tell me?”
✅ Try TASKING the class “Tell me about _____ or even better “Turn to your neighbor and share with them about _______”

💙 This gives an opportunity for all kids to participate rather than a select few.
Simple shifts in language can make a big impact on student learning.💥

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Apr 29

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✅ We have been working in many schools and classrooms helping teachers understand how to bring the science of reading into their instruction in simple but powerful ways. 💥

💙 So grateful to continue growing our own practices and we support teachers and students.

💡We made this overly simple view of #thesixshifts to help us and thought it might support you too! Let us know - how are you incorporating the shifts in your teaching ? 🤓

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Apr 20

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