Instructional Playbook

Instructional Design Toolbox

Observation Tools for Public Practice

Tools & Templates

Research & Reading

WISR for Rigor

Integrating Literacy Across the Curriculum: An Easy Way to START (Article) Maintaining Academic Rigor and Cognitive Complexity (Website) A New Definition of Rigor (Article) “Is This Class Hard?” Defining and Analyzing Academic Rigor from a Learner’s Perspective (Article) Using Inquiry to Increase Rigor Engagement & Rigor Rigor & High Expectations - Doug Fisher (Presentation) 4 Myths About Rigor in the Classroom

Reading in Four Voices Reading Activities/Tasks Scaffolds for Accessing Text Cornell Notes Graphic Organizers Sentence Stems/Word Banks Quick Writes QSSSA (Question, Signal, Share, Stem, Assess) KWL Anticipatory Set Novel Ideas

Intentional Planning

Choral Response Think Pair Share Sentence Frames Novel Ideas

Dyad Reading Close Reading