Instructional Practices
Instructional Strategies - ready-to-use resources and step-by-step guidance to help education professionals grow in their practice.
Formative Assessment and Differentiation
Blended Learning
Competency-Based Learning
Project Based Learning
Hybrid and Virtual Learning
Student-Centered Math
Illustrative Math 6-8 & 6-12
Empowering Algebra for All
Student-Centered Literacy
Newsela
Social-Emotional Learning
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Students with Disabilities
Accelerating Growth
English Learners
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Trauma-Informed Practices
Meeting the Needs of All Learners
Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning
The Primacy/Recency Effect is the observation that information presented at the beginning (Primacy) and end (Recency) of a learning episode tends to be retained better than information presented in the middle. Dr. David Sousa, former HS teacher, gives a clear visual representation (Figure 1) of this phenomenon over the course of a 40-minute learning episode in his book How the Brain Learns.