A learning platform for teachers to study the foundations of effective teaching so lessons transfer into student work and students stay engaged independently.
Our approach to teaching and learning using evidence-based practices.
Curriculum tells teachers what to teach. It does not tell them how to build the classroom where that teaching works. These eight practices do. All backed by John Hattie's Visible Learning research. All higher than his threshold for meaningful impact on student achievement.
John Hattie's synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses identified the practices that most influence student achievement. Every one of them sits at the heart of The Teaching Practice. Here is what the research shows, and what it means for Science of Reading classrooms.
When lessons are brief, focused, and followed by meaningful practice, students stay engaged, learning deepens, and understanding is more likely to stick.
What the current literacy landscape conversation is missing, and why the most important question is the one nobody is asking.
As a literacy coach, you don’t start with literacy. You begin by building the classroom conditions that allow literacy learning to grow taller than a redwood.
What most schools don't have is a shared answer to this question. The answer is here.
What every curriculum assumes teachers already know and why this skill is the foundation that makes any program work.
Five forces shaping classrooms today and why strengthening teaching craft matters more than another initiative.
A simple visual map that reveals how whole group, independence, and responsive teaching fit together across a day.
Why independence was always the real work and how that structure transfers far beyond literacy.
What does a classroom need to have in place before Science of Reading instruction can do its best work? Eight practices. All research-based. All already in Prepared Classroom.
In my third-grade classroom, I kept asking one question: "What are the rest of the students doing while I meet with a student one-on-one?"
That question led to co-creating Daily 5 (and then CAFE and Prepared Classroom), and to a lifetime of helping teachers make independence teachable.
My mission is simple: help teachers see the structure of great teaching, so classrooms feel purposeful and built to last.
Every Friday, we send a teacher-to-teacher story for teachers who care about their craft. You'll get one insight, one reflection, and a free classroom-ready resource.
At Teach Daily, we help teachers create classrooms where students know what to do, stay engaged, and continue learning beyond the lesson.
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