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3+ Years of Reading Gains in 8… 3+ Years of Reading Gains in 8 Months With Fast ForWord Jordyn Webster is just like any other 6th grader. She loves Taylor Swift, candy, and pink things—like the pink pineapple-shaped cup she recently “bought” from her teacher’s prize bin.  But the 11-year-old Nova Scotian is…
February 10, 2025 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: English Language ArtsBrain & Learning ScienceCarnegie Learning
Fostering Productive Struggle in Math Will Transform… Fostering Productive Struggle in Math Will Transform Your Instruction Recently, our Vice President of Instructional Design, Amy Jones Lewis, shared a mistake she used to make as a math teacher. “During my first couple of years of teaching, I’d be walking around the room,…
January 23, 2025 Robert Ahdoot, Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie LearningFuture ReadyLONG + LIVE + MATHLONG + LIVE + MATH ClassroomsProfessional LearningTeaching Strategies
2025 Education Trends That Actually Matter 2025 Education Trends That Actually Matter If you follow education trends like I do, you'll see the same list of predictions pop up every year. Publications love to forecast how education will transform in the coming year, and their predictions typically…
December 17, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie LearningFuture ReadyProfessional LearningTeaching StrategiesThe State of Education
Lessons for World Language Teachers from the… Lessons for World Language Teachers from the 2024 AP Exam   During my eight years as an AP French instructor, I did a lot of PD. I went to AP Institutes, read everything posted to my AP French instructor Facebook group, and purchased all the…
December 02, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie Learning
You’ll Love the Updates to our Spanish… You’ll Love the Updates to our Spanish & French Textbooks I adopted T'es branché? back in 2015, when its first edition still mentioned MP3 players, and characters in the video series texted each other on flip phones. To this day, I have my weathered, green-covered…
November 21, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie Learning
Winter-Themed Activities for Your World Language Students Winter-Themed Activities for Your World Language Students We’re almost upon the dreaded doldrums of fall semester: those three weeks between Thanksgiving and winter break. It’s dark in the morning, and students aren’t fully awake until lunchtime. You’ve got a growing pile of…
November 21, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGResearchTeaching Strategies
Is This the Best German Textbook? This… Is This the Best German Textbook? This Teacher Thinks So. When language teacher Chris Gordon first adopted Deutsch Aktuell as his German textbook in 2008, “mp3 player” was still a relevant vocabulary word. Sixteen years and four editions later, the material may have changed, but…
November 11, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGResearchTeaching Strategies
How ClearLanguages Solutions Boost Listening Comprehension How ClearLanguages Solutions Boost Listening Comprehension “Avec sauci?” the woman working the bakery counter asked me.  Sauci? Like, ‘saucisse,” maybe? Like…sausage?! My mind went into overdrive trying to understand why this woman would be asking me about sausage when all I…
November 11, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGResearchTeaching Strategies
Can You Really “Teach” Language Listening Comprehension? Can You Really “Teach” Language Listening Comprehension? As a former French teacher, I have a hot take: the hardest language skill to teach isn’t what you think. It’s not the subjunctive or conjugations of irregular verbs. It’s not how to read, write,…
October 31, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie LearningLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGResearchTeaching Strategies
Quiz: What Kind of School Administrator Are… Quiz: What Kind of School Administrator Are You? School leaders are tasked with many responsibilities, from managing staff to balancing budgets to occasionally being sunk in a dunk tank. Under the weight of many different responsibilities, school administrators can sometimes worry about their…
October 15, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Professional LearningThe State of Education
The Best French Films, TV Shows, &… The Best French Films, TV Shows, & Videos For Students Hands down, the most horrifying thing to happen during my first year of teaching was the time I didn’t preview a film I decided to use in my French 4 class.  My students had been…
August 30, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: LONG + LIVE + TEACHINGTeaching Strategies
Create Culturally Responsive Tasks with the Hope… Create Culturally Responsive Tasks with the Hope Wheel Dr. Dolly Chugh came up with an illustrative example that might well be the analogy of the decade when, in 2016, she described implicit bias using a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. “I somehow know…
August 09, 2024 Kelly Denzler Filed Under: Carnegie LearningFuture ReadyLONG + LIVE + TEACHINGProfessional LearningTeaching Strategies