Prepared Classroom is a professional learning resource that breaks down the foundations of effective teaching so you can see, study, and strengthen the practices that shape every classroom.
It focuses on the high-impact parts of teaching so you can build a classroom where students know how to learn and teaching feels clear and intentional.
Get your hands on the practical, spiral-bound guide that’s changing classrooms across the country.
Each chapter is broken into the high-impact practices of effective teaching with practical lessons to strengthen them in your classroom.
Prepared Classroom builds on the research-based strategies that made Daily 5 and CAFE so beloved by teachers—and takes them even further.
It’s not just about literacy. It’s about transforming every part of your day, in every subject area, with the kind of routines and systems that work.
Every practice you’ll find in Prepared Classroom aligns with the strategies that have the greatest effect sizes in Professor John Hattie’s meta-analysis of what works in education.
When you cross-check our methods—conferring, timely feedback, peer modeling, clear success criteria, student ownership, and more—you’ll see they’re not just popular strategies. They’re the ones that move learning forward.
Prepared Classroom helped you see the practices that make teaching strong. Now it’s time to see how they come together.
The Teaching Structure shows how these practices live across a day of teaching—how a lesson moves into student practice, how independence creates space for responsive teaching, and how learning is carried forward.
This is where we can start to visualize the work. And where teaching begins to feel more connected, manageable, and purposeful.
Watch the free workshop to see the structure in action.
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