A professional learning membership that helps you build the practices behind effective teaching—so your classroom runs on independence, not on you.
You're free to pull small groups. To confer with one reader at a time. To teach the way you always meant to. Independence is the practice that makes the rest of your day possible and it can be taught, starting now.
Programs tell you what to teach. They rarely show you how to structure a day so students grow more independent, so small groups become possible, so learning carries past the lesson. That knowledge doesn't live inside a program. It's built deliberately, one practice at a time.
A scope and sequence. Lessons to deliver. Materials to work through. All useful and all built around what to teach.
The craft underneath any program: how to build independence, run small groups, confer, and design a day where learning sticks. The part that makes everything else work.
Begin teaching students how to sustain their own learning. Small shifts, felt immediately, that free you up to teach.
Put the daily structures in place that make a classroom run with purpose and hold up when the day gets hard.
With independence in place, step away from the whole group and start the responsive, one-at-a-time teaching that moves students most.
Work through each practice at your own pace, returning to the ones your classroom needs, building a way of teaching that lasts.
Short, practical lessons you can watch on your own time. Watch one, apply it tomorrow.
Every lesson comes with concrete steps to bring straight into your classroom, so learning becomes practice.
Each lesson ends with a clear checkpoint, so you always know whether the learning has landed before you move on.
Membership access to a growing library and every practice, so you can revisit what your classroom needs, whenever it needs it.
Each course builds on the last. Together they give you a clear, practical picture of what effective teaching looks like across a full day—in any classroom, any subject, any grade.
The foundation of a classroom where students take risks, work hard, and grow.
What your classroom communicates to students about how learning happens here.
The structures that make a teaching day feel purposeful and predictable.
How to explicitly teach students to work on their own. This practice makes everything else possible.
How to hold meaningful conversations and what to record to accelerate student growth.
Whole-group instruction that lands clearly and releases students into their own practice.
Help students understand their goals, track their progress, and take ownership of their learning.
How to give students the opportunity to apply learning in authentic ways that deepen understanding and support transfer.
Start with a short video, with captions and playback speed built in. Watch it on your prep, your commute, your couch.
Concrete steps help you apply the learning right away. Some shift what you do in the classroom, some shift how you think.
A clear checkpoint tells you whether it's landed. When you can say yes, move on. When you can't, you'll know what to revisit.
For decades, Gail has worked inside real classrooms, watching teachers teach, sitting beside students, and helping educators see the structure already present in their best work. The Teaching Practice takes everything that made those frameworks work and brings it into one clear path for today's classroom. Not a new thing to add. A clearer way to teach what you already care about most.
Work through it at your own pace, all year long. Your price locks in for as long as you stay a member.
$99/year is our launch price and will rise over time. Join now and yours never changes as long as your membership stays active.
Your curriculum tells you what to teach. The Teaching Practice builds how you teach it—the independence, routines, conferring, and lesson design that make any program work in a real classroom. It sits alongside whatever you're already using, not on top of it.
Less than you'd think. Video lessons are short and focused, and you work through one practice at a time at your own pace. Many teachers watch a lesson during prep and apply it the next day. There's no schedule to keep up with. You move as your classroom is ready.
It grows out of them. The Teaching Practice takes the heart of Daily 5 and CAFE and brings it into one clear structure for the whole teaching day. It's built out and organized for today's classroom, alongside whatever program you're teaching now.
Yes. The Teaching Practice isn't a reading program and doesn't replace one. It builds the teaching practices that help any program land in the classroom. Whatever you're required to use works better, not differently.
Yes. Join at $99/year and that's your price for as long as you stay a member, even as we raise it for new members over time. The sooner you join, the more you save.
If you want your students working more independently, your small groups actually happening, and your teaching to feel like a craft again—this is built for you. Whether you're in your first year or your twentieth, it meets you where you are.
Start today, and watch it begin to change within the month.
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