Teachers need ongoing training and easy access to effective instructional content and strategies in order to implement the science of reading (SoR) best practices with fidelity.
This type of robust support is now available for teachers nationwide thanks to a partnership between Digital Promise and Edthena.
As teachers complete coaching cycles within the AI Coach platform, they will be able to select the SoR pathway to have access to hundreds of teacher-facing strategy recommendations from Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Project.
AI Coach is an adaptive, first-of-its-kind solution that uses conversational artificial intelligence (AI) to support teachers as they work through coaching cycles. Teachers independently reflect on their practice and set near-term goals as part of a self-paced module that mirrors the instructional coaching process. Teachers have an interactive conversation with Edie, the AI-driven coach, who asks probing, open-ended questions and offers personalized tips and resources for improvement.
Within the SoR pathway, teachers can access a full complement of content-specific supports—covering topics such as phonological awareness, sentence structure, and verbal reasoning—to help them analyze their teaching practices and build their students’ skills to become proficient readers.
All of the resources are from Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Project and backed by published academic studies documenting the predictiveness of student outcomes. The project builds on emerging research into learner variability to support a whole-child framework for student achievement.
In addition to the newly added SoR pathway, which is available in both an early-elementary and a late-elementary version, teachers can complete coaching cycles focused on common teaching techniques such as checking for student understanding, balancing student–teacher talk time, facilitating group discussions, and more.
