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In distance learning, caregivers and teachers partner more than ever to help students with writing. Melanie Meehan created this companion to Every Child Can Write for teachers to share with caregivers to help children develop their writing lives—even while learning at home. Each of the eight modules contains video clips that talk caregivers through tools for supporting their student writers, along with downloadable tools that can be used by teachers or caregivers.

Read about types of mentor texts and writing strategies.

Discover advice and resources to manage the unspoken expectations that are often placed on teachers.

Explore solutions to build engagement and prevent off-task behaviors.

In this excerpt from Every Child Can Write, Grades 2-5, by Melanie Meehan, you’ll discover how to determine where and how students get stuck in their process, and how we can help them find the right entry point.

In this excerpt from PLC+, the authors discuss factors that can contribute to an individual teacher’s success, including credibility and efficacy, and how, through PLCs, these strengths can become collective to benefit the school as a whole.

Our students’ focus, participation, and interest in the activities of their learning are what we call “engagement”. But the benefits of engagement extend far beyond what we can see in the moment. Our long-term goal is for students to gain the skills of curiosity, focus, persistence, and self regulation. Download this excerpt for strategies you can test to build and maintain student engagement.

Dive deeper into your own math identity, your students' math identity, and how you can make a positive impacts.

Learn about multiple community-building exercises you can use at the beginning of the year and throughout the year.

This toolkit provides activities that you can share with your students' families as an entire set or one activity at a time.

The 'Mine, Yours, and Ours' exercise from Teaching Math at a Distance can be used as a strategy to promote student thinking in mathematics.

Worked examples are problems that have been solved. Correctly worked examples can help students make sense of a strategy and incorrectly worked examples attend to common errors.