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One new principal, four instructional coaches, and a lot of new teachers Katherine Lange had never led an elementary school before she walked through the doors of Bowie Elementary in January 2025, …
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I gave it a chance and I immediately found value in its feedback and instructional ideas. In fact, I look forward to bringing it to my class because I know it will give me inspiration that is actually …
For AI rubric scoring to be useful in a school or district, it has to be trustworthy. That means it needs to score the way a trained evaluator would score: consistently, accurately, and in a way that …
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There are over 5 million English Language Learners (ELL) in U.S. public schools, and they face a challenge most of their peers don't: learning English and academic content at the same time. This …
The M2 score measures participation as the foundational condition for learning. It captures whether a classroom consistently creates, sustains, and distributes opportunities for thinking—moment by …
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We built M2 with a feedback focus on engagement, questioning, and pacing. Why? Because insights in these three areas make a difference for every teacher we know. Many districts have also …
What is MTSS? Why do districts struggle with it? Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) is designed to be elegant in theory: a three-tier pyramid where Tier 1 provides strong universal …
When we talk about MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports), the conversation often revolves around what adults are doing—interventions, progress monitoring, and data collection. But the true measure of …
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M2’s purpose has always been simple: to support great teachers in the work they do every day. Since then, we’ve seen the same pattern in classrooms across the country: teachers are resourceful, …
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Everything, everywhere, all at once Danica Rose Garay teaches instructional sciences in a self-contained special education classroom, a complex setting to say the least. Throughout her day, she …
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