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Before You Open Your Program

What every curriculum assumes teachers already know and why this skill is the foundation that makes any program work.

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Teaching in 2026: Why Schools and Teachers Need a Structure More Than Ever

Five forces shaping classrooms today and why strengthening teaching craft matters more than another initiative.

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The Teaching Structure No One Showed You

A simple visual map that reveals how whole group, independence, and responsive teaching fit together across a day.

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What We Learned from Daily 5 (and why it matters more now than ever)

Why independence was always the real work and how that structure transfers far beyond literacy.

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I'm Gail Boushey

In my third-grade classroom, I kept asking one question: "What are the rest of the students doing while I meet with a student one-on-one?"

That question led to co-creating Daily 5 (and then CAFE and Prepared Classroom), and to a lifetime of helping teachers make independence teachable.

My mission is simple: help teachers see the structure of great teaching, so classrooms feel purposeful and built to last.

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