Building ELA Skills for Every Student: Designing for Learner Variability in Middle School (Part 1)

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Digital Promise. The webinar recording can be accessed here. The middle school years are critical for developing the literacy skills students will use for the rest of their lives. For some learners, the challenge isn’t just decoding words but negotiating the intense cognitive demand of managing new vocabulary and constructing meaning. By designing for learner variability—considering a whole-child framework of factors that includes learner background, social ...