Your Path to Clarity and Confidence
Everyone wants to feel prepared, effective, and confident as instructors. We want our students to succeed and to know that we’re making a difference in their learning.
Scientific word study doesn’t have to be overwhelming. We scour the Internet looking for “another tool in the toolbox.” We ask questions on social media hoping someone has a “recipe” or “magic formula” that would help us get organized about word study.
We think, “If I learn all the content and have all the tools, I’ll be ready for anything.”
Instead, we end up feeling overloaded and scattered. We spend more time collecting than teaching. We lose confidence because there’s always something new we “should” know. Tools and strategies sit unused or half-learned.
More stuff doesn’t make us better—it just adds stress.
Yes, content knowledge is important and “tools,” or instructional strategies, are necessary, but I believe we are forgetting about the third leg of that stool.
We need a way to get better with what we already have. We need deliberate practice: focusing on a few high-leverage strategies, applying them thoughtfully, reflecting, and refining.
Imagine
- having one or two reliable strategies you can use that really move the needle
- using them to teach the Big Ideas, the concepts that are foundational to learning about English orthography
- reflecting on each iteration; “What worked?” “What can I adjust?”
- noticing growth in your students and in your own skills
- only adding new content and new tools when they address the current situation (“just in time” instead of “just in case”)
One Step Now helps you get better with what you already have. No more overwhelm. From the first step to the last, every step is about the same thing:
👉 From confusion to clarity. From overwhelm to confidence.
You don’t need more content. You need the right anchors, the right practices, and the right people beside you.
That’s the path. And it’s wide open for you at this link.