Help students with IEPs access grade-level instruction by identifying access points within Bookworms instructional routines, building skill staircases that lead to grade-level outcomes while supporting diverse learning and maintaining grade-level rigor.
When student thinking is visible, instruction becomes more responsive, discussion becomes richer, and learning goes deeper. Explore five practical moves for surfacing student ideas, strengthening engagement, and supporting meaningful learning. Teachers, coaches, and leaders will gain concrete strategies for making thinking more visible in ways that support understanding, engagement, and responsive instructional decisions.
“Be curious, not judgmental” is often treated like a mindset, but in coaching, it’s a discipline. Most leaders enter conversations with answers already in mind and use questions to guide teachers there. In this session, ELA and Math leaders will examine how judgment shapes coaching and how to interrupt it in real time. Participants will learn how to ask questions that actually open thinking and lead to meaningful instructional change.
What does a strong Bookworms Differentiated Instruction (DI) Block actually look like in practice? In this session, participants will explore the key look-fors that make DI Block effective, including clear routines, purposeful grouping, responsive instruction, and meaningful student engagement. Educators will examine how the block can be structured to meet diverse learner needs while remaining aligned with the curriculum goals. Participants will leave with practical guidance for strengthening implementation and identifying high-quality DI instruction.
Most classrooms are filled with activity. The question is whether children are doing the thinking that leads to real learning. When children are not doing the thinking, they are not doing the learning. This session explores practical strategies that shift instruction from compliance to thinking, amplify learner voice, and create classrooms where children analyze, justify, and communicate their ideas. Participants will leave with strategies they can apply immediately.
