Edge Classroom Observation Tool

The Edge Classroom Observation Tool is designed to inform literacy coaches and principals about the strengths and challenges teachers face as they teach their students with Edge. This tool will also help literacy coaches and principals provide structured feedback to teachers and allow them to make informed professional development decisions to coach teachers as they refine and improve their instructional practices, match research articles to areas of need, and recommend Edge video lessons to view to improve instruction. 

• Edge Classroom Observation Tool

Edge Author Monographs

The following links take you to additional research articles that define the research base of Edge. These articles will strengthen foundational knowledge related to adolescent literacy and are the perfect resource to use to promote professional dialogue with colleagues in professional learning communities.

• Motivating Adolescent Readers by Michael W. Smith, Ph. D.
• Enabling Texts: Texts that Matter by Alfred Tatum, Ph. D.
• Assessing Readers, Not Reading by Alfred Tatum, Ph. D.
• Reading Comprehension Strategies by David W. Moore, Ph. D.
• Why Vocabulary Instruction Matters by David W. Moore, Ph. D.
• Teaching Writing to Adolescents by Michael W. Smith, Ph. D.
• Developing Academic Literacy in Adolescent English Language Learners
  by Deborah J. Short, Ph. D.
• Reading Instruction for Students with Disabilities by David W. Moore, Ph. D.
  and Michael W. Smith, Ph. D.
• Research Base for Hampton-Brown Edge™