What is Edge?
Motivating and Relevant
- Essential Questions drive the presentation of readable, relevant, and engaging literature
- Draws on out-of-school literacies and connects to the real world
- Structure supports foster success as students build reading, writing, and language power
- Offers choice and control over learning and gets students committed to their own success.
- Focus and repetition of one reading strategy per unit create a path to achievement
- “Show, not Tell” lessons cement understanding
- Explicit teaching and frequent interactivity develop competence
- Systematic application across genres promotes strategy transfer.
- Cohesive and manageable instructional design, with built-in professional development
- Grades 9-10 English Language Arts Standards taught and tested
- Assessments inform instruction, including e-Assessment with immediate access to reports and reteaching resources.