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Universal Screening for Dyslexia in TK for California School Districts
Abstract This paper advocates for implementing mandatory early dyslexia screening in California’s transitional kindergarten (TK) programs. The transition to kindergarten is a critical developmental period that is often challenging for many students, especially those with reading difficulties such as dyslexia. Despite California school districts offering programs, such as summer programs, to increase students’ readiness to…
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Become a Teacher Leader!
Calling all Teacher Leaders Are you interested in becoming a mentor or coach, serving as a teacher leader, or formally influencing school policy? You are not alone. In a recent survey of 1,000 teachers, 87% said they wanted to become a mentor or coach, 83% said they wanted to become a teacher leader, and 96%…
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Utilizing Classroom Rules and Building Relationships
Creating classrooms that have a positive climate where students can achieve academically is not an easy task. The first step to achieving a successful classroom is to create a PBSS system at a school. To set-up a PBSS system a school must make sure there is: (1) identification of important schoolwide outcomes for student learning…
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Three Little Pigs Problem-Based Lesson Plan-Kindergarten
References California Department of Education. (2013). California Common Core State Standards. https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/finalelaccssstandards.pdf Chen, F., Chen, G. (2024). Technology-Enhanced Collaborative Inquiry in K–12 Classrooms: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies. Sci & Educ 34, 1731–1773 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-024-00538-8 Hofland, S. (2023). Promoting More Play in Kindergarten [Review of Promoting More Play in Kindergarten]. NW Commons. https://nwcommons.nwciowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1532&context=education_masters Horak,…
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Cross-Disciplinary Math and ELA Lesson Plan-Kindergarten
References California Department of Education. (2013). California common core state standards mathematics. California Department of Education. https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/ccssmathstandardaug2013.pdf California Department of Education. (2013). California Common Core State Standards. https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/finalelaccssstandards.pdf DiLeo, R. (2024). Comparative analysis of differentiation among students in higher education versus elementary education. International Journal on Social and Education Sciences (IJonSES), 6(2), 264–274. https://doi.org/10.46328/ijonses.662 Johnson,…
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Community Map Collaborative Group Lesson Plan-First Grade
References Bhardwaj, V., Zhang, S., Tan, Y. Q., & Pandey, V. (2025). Redefining learning: student-centered strategies for academic and personal growth. Frontiers in Education, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2025.1518602 California Department of Education. (2013). California Common Core State Standards. https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/finalelaccssstandards.pdf Chen, F., Chen, G. (2024). Technology-Enhanced Collaborative Inquiry in K–12 Classrooms: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies. Sci…
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UDL Stop Motion Video Lesson Plan-Kindergarten/ First Grade
Introduction I wanted to make a lesson plan that utilized culturally responsive teaching practices like respecting and reinforcing the students’ cultures by having lessons that they found culturally relevant and that allowed them to share their cultural background, seeing an opportunity to invite the students’ family to share in their child’s learning, and to deconstruct…
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World Cultures Lesson Plan and Assessments-Kindergarten
Introduction One of the most important aspects of developing formative and summative assessments for kindergarteners is ensuring they are developmentally appropriate. The assessments that I have designed will be implemented during my kindergarten class’s first unit. This means these assessments may be the first my students have ever done. With this in mind, I designed…
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Hello Future-Forward Educators!
Welcome to my blog Educational Reflections that is focused on reflecting on the future of education! My name is Andrew Greschler and I have been teaching since I graduated with a degree in English literature. After spending over a decade teaching English in Taiwan, South Korea, China, and Turkey, I moved back to the United…
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