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Why? Teaching isn’t about delivery. Teaching is only teaching if students learn. Reflecting and adapting are our superpowers for ensuring our actions lead to student learning.

How? Within every lesson, actively engage students and watch to check for understanding. Notice your thinking and actions when students struggle. When students struggle, take ownership for impact. If students struggle, get specific about what they can do and how they struggle. If students thrive, identify ways to build on strengths to release scaffolds and raise rigor. Use the information you gather watching students every day to adapt teaching within lessons and to plan the future lessons that build on student strengths and address challenges.

 Apply the instructional essentials in Figure 2.2, emphasized throughout this book, to your everyday teaching.

 Flip to the literacy goal you want to teach in Section IV. Use the flow of content to find goal-specific resources aligned to each step of the reflective teaching cycle.

Reflective teaching involves supports strategically based on student data. When students struggle, choose one or more additional scaffolds to help them succeed. When they succeed, remove scaffolds or supports in subsequent lessons to help them build on successes to thrive with increasing levels of challenge and student initiative.