Posts about English Language Arts

Making confident decisions in an ELA curriculum comes with deep intellectual preparation, not from reading a script. Teachers deserve resources that honor their expertise, engage their intellectual curiosity, and help them continue to learn and grow. Here's how we built Fishtank ELA to do just that.

Curriculum Director Caroline Gambell shares an inside look at the development of our newest 7th grade ELA unit, Claiming Our Place: LGBTQ+ Experiences in the United States. 

Our K–5 ELA units have new names and a few new additions. Find out how our dedication to the different facets of knowledge building informs these choices.  

At the end of a singularly challenging school year, our curriculum directors turn their attention to the coming year and share our top priorities for the structures, preparation, and resources that will best support teachers and students.

Learn about the questions and priorities that are guiding our selection of new unit core texts for High School ELA. Dive deep into our process for examining the existing units of the 9th grade course, and how the new sequence of texts was selected.