CommonLit's Assessment Series Empowers Schools with Actionable Data Schools can unlock 3 benchmark assessments for grades 3–12 to track student growth with the purchase of School Essentials PRO. CommonLit’s Assessment Series is easy to use, high... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher July 27, 2022 · 4 min read
CommonLit Integrates with Canvas Learn about the benefits of this powerful LMS integration and how you can unlock it for your team. At CommonLit, we’re committed to ensuring that our award-winning digital literacy... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher January 24, 2022 · 2 min read
CommonLit’s 2021 Summer Reading Challenge CommonLit’s Summer Reading Challenge is back for Summer 2021! Families can choose from brand new reading lists full of engaging stories. CommonLit’s Summer Reading Challenge is back for... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher May 18, 2021 · 4 min read
Affordable Professional Development to Support an Effective Rollout of CommonLit 360 Learn about the on-demand Professional Development that CommonLit has designed to support your team’s use of our new comprehensive ELA curriculum, CommonLit 360 CommonLit is thrilled to announce the... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher April 10, 2021 · 4 min read
Tips for Test Prep with CommonLit in 2021 Practical tips for leveraging CommonLit’s library and flexible assignments to give your students additional practice Weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Education made an important announcement regarding state... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher March 15, 2021 · 3 min read
Introducing the CommonLit Assessment Series CommonLit's Assessment Series was introduced during the '21-'22 school year. For updated information about CommonLit's Assessment Series for the '23-'24 school year, please click here. This spring, our team is... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher February 11, 2021 · 2 min read
CommonLit’s Digital Library Flexibly Supports Any Curriculum 3,000+ literary and informational reading passages, lesson planning resources, comprehension quizzes, and more to support teachers. CommonLit has carefully curated a digital library that offers over 3,000 high-quality... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher January 2, 2021 · 4 min read
Wrapping Up 2020 at CommonLit Reflecting on new features, exciting new content in our library, and our commitment to giving students and teachers high-quality resources. Simply put, it’s been a year. Between a global... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher December 23, 2020 · 3 min read
Ignite Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials and CommonLit School Essentials PRO This blog has been archived. To find the latest information for School Essentials PRO, please check out this blog post [https://www.commonlit.org/blog/spark-reading-growth-with-commonlit-school-essentials-pro-998dd782e421/] . CommonLit’s new Assessment... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher December 20, 2020 · 3 min read
NEW Short Stories on CommonLit for Elementary and Middle School Students Exciting new short stories for grades 4-8 from famous authors like Gary Soto, Meg Medina, and more! The CommonLit team is excited to announce that over the next few months... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher December 14, 2020 · 3 min read
CommonLit's Assessment Series Empowers Schools with Actionable Data Three benchmark assessments for grades 3–12 available to track & monitor student progress at the school and district level. CommonLit is proud to offer the CommonLit Assessment Series to folks... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher December 14, 2020 · 4 min read
Spark Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials CommonLit School Essentials gives teachers access to benchmark assessments with actionable data, asynchronous professional development modules, and more. You might already be familiar with CommonLit.org, a digital literacy program... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher December 4, 2020 · 2 min read
Spark Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials PRO Unlock the rostering, Professional Development, and data tracking tools your district needs to roll out CommonLit’s full program You might already be familiar with CommonLit.org [https://www.commonlit.... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher December 4, 2020 · 3 min read
Strategies for Effectively Using CommonLit's Administrator Data Your team has purchased CommonLit’s School Essentials PRO Package which is designed to enhance your team’s usage of CommonLit’s award-winning literacy program [http://commonlit.org]. As part... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher November 20, 2020 · 5 min read
10 Texts About Friendship, Kindness, and Standing Up for Others A balancing act of new friends, first crushes, heartbreaks, tears, damaged friendships, social media, lots of pre-teen drama, and an abundance of challenging schoolwork — that pretty much encapsulates what I... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher October 1, 2020 · 5 min read
Free CommonLit Professional Development for NYC Educators Through the generous support of the Robin Hood Foundation, CommonLit is providing all New York City public school teachers with access to CommonLit’s Professional Development Portal [https://blog.commonlit.... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher September 22, 2020 · 2 min read
The Complete Guide to CommonLit's Professional Development Portal -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The CommonLit team is very excited to announce the launch of our new Professional Development Portal! This portal includes over 20 on-demand trainings that focus on best practices for... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher September 21, 2020 · 7 min read
Supporting Children to Complete CommonLit Assignments at Home We know that parents and guardians play a critical role in the education of their children. At CommonLit [http://www.commonlit.org/], we have developed our reading program to be... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher August 7, 2020 · 4 min read
CommonLit’s Guide for Administrators: SY 20-21 After schools began closing due to the spread of COVID-19, CommonLit’s mission of supporting educators with engaging digital learning resources became more urgent than ever before. At CommonLit, we’... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher July 19, 2020 · 4 min read
10 Exciting Improvements to CommonLit in 2020 2020 has been a year filled with unprecedented and profound challenges. At CommonLit, we have responded by working tirelessly to provide teachers with the high-quality resources and technology tools they... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher June 24, 2020 · 2 min read
The Comprehensive Guide to CommonLit's Professional Development Portal Ensure Success with CommonLit by Unlocking Over 60 Trainings for your Team. Is your team planning to roll-out CommonLit' full digital library, benchmark assessments, or full ELA curriculum, CommonLit 360?... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher June 23, 2020 · 6 min read
Veteran NYC Teacher Shares Why She Loves CommonLit’s 360 Curriculum In this interview, you’ll hear from Anne Goldfeder, an 8th grade ELA teacher who has been teaching at J.H.S. 226 Virgil I. Grissom for twenty years. Anne... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher June 9, 2020 · 4 min read
CommonLit's Professional Development Portal: On-Demand Trainings to Support Effective Literacy Instruction Districts across the country are preparing for a very irregular start to the coming school year [https://www.chalkbeat.org/2020/4/29/21241856/returning-to-school-buildings-fall-coronavirus] . Under normal circumstances, high-quality professional... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher May 25, 2020 · 3 min read
NYC Middle School Embraces CommonLit's Digital Curriculum Before and During COVID-19 Throughout the 2019–20 school year, CommonLit has been piloting it’s free Full-Year English Language Arts curriculum in five NYC middle schools. This soon-to-be-released curriculum is available in both... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher May 20, 2020 · 4 min read
CommonLit's Digital Lessons Are More Flexible Than Ever Before CommonLit fans will be very excited to learn that CommonLit has just launched new features that provide greater flexibility for digital assignments: Assessment Options!” Now, when teachers assign a lesson... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher May 14, 2020 · 4 min read
Announcing CommonLit's Distance Learning Support Package CommonLit’s mission of supporting educators with engaging digital learning resources is more urgent than ever before. To support schools and districts throughout SY 20–21, we’ve created our... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher April 27, 2020 · 1 min read
Middle & High Schools: Join a CommonLit 360 Curriculum Pilot Learn about an opportunity to pilot the new CommonLit 360 units for grades 6–10 and get exclusive access to coaching, resources, assessments, and support for SY 2021–22 and... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher April 26, 2020 · 4 min read
