Essential Strategies combines the organizational power of graphic organizers with strategic increasingly complex questioning to resolve questioning knowledge gaps and stretch questioning into the standards’ highest expectations, within and across grade levels.
Increasingly complex Questioning
Essential Strategies systemically transforms K12 instruction, by vertically and horizontally aligning the standards and grade level expectations, as they developmentally progress. We center increasingly complex questioning and intentionally organize corresponding best practices, routines, instructional materials, etc., within and across grade levels, to achieve this outcome.
Essential Strategies thoughtfully demonstrates increasingly complex questioning, using culturally liberating literature and informational text that mirror the reader and open windows and doors to celebratory and new narratives. We deeply explore and stretch State Standard 10 by reading, comprehending, and analyzing complex non traditional text, including classical and modern art.
The Right to Bloom. Petal by Petal. Document by Document. Question by Question.
Essential Strategies delivers equity in instruction, via Increasingly Complex Questioning
…over the course of a school year and the K12 career,
because students in underserved communities spend 500+ hours on assignments that are not appropriate for their grade and engage in instruction that does not ask enough of them, equalling 6 months of wasted time in each core subject, per year.