Elementary teacher Brooke Harrington shares insights on building metacognitive skills in young students, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and naming moments of deep thinking. Harrington suggests three strategies: shifting language in feedback to focus on the thinking process, building routines for reflection and valuing quiet progress. By focusing on presence over praise and explicitly teaching students to notice and name their thinking processes, educators lay the foundation for lifelong metacognitive habits.

Kids Read Now, a Troy, Ohio-based nonprofit, has partnered with The New Path to provide free books to children in Miami County through local food pantries. The initiative aims to combat the "summer slide" in educational attainment by distributing age-appropriate books to children in kindergarten through fifth grade during regular pantry hours. The program cost $200 to expand and has seen significant participation, with more than 6,000 pantry visits this year.

Operation Literacy and OperationREAD in Salt Lake City are collaborating to enhance literacy among struggling readers, particularly those with dyslexia, by providing access to the DIVI platform through scholarships. The platform offers specially formatted books to meet individual learning needs. OperationREAD also offers dyslexia screenings and tutoring for at-risk children.

As part of the River City Readers initiative, Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan and Miss Florida 2025 Paris Richardson visited Dinsmore Elementary School to promote literacy. The event included the Mayor's Bookmobile, which provided free books to students. Since its launch nearly two years ago, the initiative is credited with an increase in Duval County's third-grade literacy rates.

The Education Department has rescinded 2015 guidance that helped schools support English learners, indicating it will not enforce federal law requiring such assistance, EdSource reports. Spokeswoman Madi Biedermann says the guidance was not aligned with administration policy. Previously, the department laid off most workers in its Office of English Language Acquisition and sought to end funding for EL and immigrant students.

Fred Ende discusses the importance of humility, inclusivity and compassion in educational leadership, drawing from lessons shared by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy at a recent conference. Ende emphasizes that humility helps leaders recognize their role as part of a larger system, inclusivity ensures that all students are supported, and compassion fosters a culture of care.

Wordless picture books play a crucial role in developing children's storytelling skills and language development, writes Rachel Brittain, who shares her observations of her young nephew "reading" by interpreting images. Brittain cites research from Early Childhood Research Quarterly that shows wordless books boost language production more than text-based books. Brittain also offers adults tips on engaging with these books effectively.

Trust is a fundamental yet complex aspect of educational leadership, writes school principal Jen Schwanke, who says that while it is often seen as a one-sided expectation, it actually requires both being trustworthy and willing to trust others. She offers insights into how trust can be built or undermined in relationships with teachers, parents and students, drawing on historical context and personal experiences.

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