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Mining Mentor Moves to Write About a Place
This is our final post in partnership with the National Writing Project’s Write Out 2026, providing new resources and materials for place-based writing with your students! You can catch up on our previous posts: Exploring the Language of Place and Engaging the Historical Imagination in Place-Based Writing. I don’t know how to write or how […]
Engaging our Historical Imagination in Place-Based Writing
As part of our partnership with the National Writing Project’s Write Out 2026, we are sharing a few original resources and place-based writing activities to support student writers! You can check out our post on exploring the specific language of a place here. Ways to Use this Resource Want more resources? Check out the Write […]
Exploring the Language of Place
lilyPD professional development powered by William & Mary is excited to be a partner of the National Writing Project’s Write Out 2026! This annual partnership between the National Writing Project and the National Park Service encourages people to get outside and write! As we celebrate this year’s Write Out (October 11 – 25), we’ll be […]
Teaching Takeaway: Using Numbers as a Launchpad for Reading Comprehension
In Reading Nonfiction: Notice and Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies, researchers Kylene Beers and Bob Probst present five signposts — moments in a text that act like a flashing neon sign to the reader saying, “Slow down! Pay attention! Something important is happening!” One of these five most important signals in nonfiction is “numbers and […]
Strategy Spotlight: Supporting Multilingual Learners in Civil Discourse
There is a lot happening in a classroom discussion. Students are listening to someone else’s ideas, deciding whether they agree or disagree, connecting those ideas to what they already know, looking for evidence, and figuring out what they want to say next, all while the conversation keeps moving. For multilingual learners (MLs), there may be […]
4 Tools to Transform Your School’s PD Culture
Over this course of his blog series, Dr. Derek Porter shared four tools that can change how school leaders create a school culture that prevents burnout and encourages meaningful professional growth! If you missed any of, you can find all four posts here. You can also grab each of the tools Derek provides for school […]
How Healthy Schools Protect People’s Capacity
This is the final installment of our four-part leadership series with Dr. Derek Porter. You can get caught up on the rest of the series here: post 1, post 2, post 3. How Healthy Schools Protect People’s Capacity The Seven Institutional Commitments of Sustainable Leadership “Culture is not built by what leaders believe. It is […]
The Decisions Exhausting Every School
This is the third installment in our lilyPD X leadership series! Check out post 1, post 2, and post 4! The Decisions Exhausting Every School “The quality of a school is often determined not by its biggest decisions, but by the thousands of smaller ones that quietly shape people’s days.” Professional learning asks educators to […]
Why Good Professional Learning Doesn’t Change Practice
This is the second installment in a four-part leadership series! Get caught up on post 1, post 3, and post 4! Why Good Professional Learning Doesn’t Change Practice Professional learning is designed to help teachers grow. Every year, school leaders, like you, invest countless hours selecting meaningful topics, organizing coaching cycles, planning PLCs, and creating […]
Before You Plan Your Next PD Day, Ask This
Before You Plan Your Next PD Day, Ask This This post is the first installment of a four-part leadership series. Check out part 2, part 3, and part 4! “People don’t rise or fall to the level of their motivation. They rise or fall to the level of the systems they work within.” Professional development […]