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.