Visit Classrooms
Our Knowledge Matters School Tour has had the honor of visiting top districts to see inspiring work with knowledge-building curriculum.
These classroom stories highlight the many benefits of this powerful approach to teaching and learning.
Benefits
Curricula
Video
Diana Roach – Tipton County Schools, Brighton, TN
“I am so excited. Every year it gets richer and deeper and thicker and more invigorating for the students and myself. We learn new things.”
12/02/2022
Video
John Combs – Tipton County Schools, Brighton, TN
“If we make a big purchase with this taxpayer money and we don’t use the materials, that is not being a good steward.”
12/02/2022
Video
Monica Wilkins – Tipton County Schools, Brighton, TN
“I see students using vocab that they would not have used prior to being exposed to these read alouds and to these content-rich units.”
12/02/2022
Video
Varissa Richardson – Tipton County Schools, Brighton, TN
“How can we continue to support our kids during Tier 1 instruction? We’ve added some things during Tier 4 time that supports Tier 1 instruction.”
12/02/2022
Video
LaTasha Bolton – Tipton County Schools, Brighton, TN
“We were not just given all of this and told to make it happen. We had leadership and training. When we go in by ourselves, we know what to do.”
12/01/2022
Video
LaTasha Bolton – Tipton County Schools, Brighton, TN
“The things that the district and TNTP have given us allow us to actually teach the knowledge and the skills.”
12/01/2022
Video
Michelle Cooper – Tipton County Schools, Brighton, TN
“We’ve had fewer and fewer students that are Tier 3 level in upper grades. We don’t have any 5th graders that are Tier 3 for reading.”
12/01/2022
Video
Carrie Shipley – Hamilton County Schools, Chattanooga, TN
“It helps to have that uniform language. Something I firmly believe is that the best ideas come from the forging fires of collaboration.”
11/15/2022
Video
Carrie Shipley – Hamilton County Schools, Chattanooga, TN
“I have the knowledge and skills to teach them to read, and I feel confident in what I am giving them. It makes me feel hopeful I’m affecting change.”
11/15/2022
Video
Sonia Stewart – Hamilton County Schools, Chattanooga, TN
“There was a commitment to reduce variability in classrooms across grade levels and schools and to really dose up our instructional leadership team.”
11/15/2022
Video
Courtney Baker – Hamilton County Schools, Chattanooga, TN
“It is giving everybody the same information and exposure that they would not be having otherwise.”
11/14/2022
Video
Jennifer Whalen – Hamilton County Schools, Chattanooga, TN
“A core value of this building really is joy. We want kids to come and love school and be joyful, and we want teachers to be joyful.”
11/14/2022
Video
Dameeka McClish – Murfreesboro City Schools, Murfreesboro, TN
“Teachers have been really excited about the collaboration and the academic talk that the students are building.”
10/13/2022
Video
Lacey Nunley – Murfreesboro City Schools, Murfreesboro, TN
“You know you have the quality, and it is proven and researched. Now the delivery is up to you.”
10/13/2022
Video
Martin Ridgely – Murfreesboro City Schools, Murfreesboro, TN
“There were times in my career I thought, ‘This is hard. I don’t feel like this is working.’ I don’t feel that way now. Every year I get better.”
10/13/2022
Video
Courtney Mobley – Murfreesboro City Schools, Murfreesboro, TN
“He went through that second year, and it was just magic.”
10/12/2022
Video
Dameeka McClish – Murfreesboro City Schools, Murfreesboro, TN
“Students are becoming content experts….in kindergarten, they can tell you eveything you want to know about trees.”
10/12/2022
Video
Deming Wehby – Murfreesboro City Schools, Murfreesboro, TN
“‘Hard’ shouldn’t necessarily have a bad connotation…it shows the depth of the curriculum and how much more is required of my students.”
10/12/2022
Video
Kim Inglish – Murfreesboro City Schools, Murfreesboro, TN
“Kids have bought into ELA. They think what we’re doing is worthy of their time.”
10/12/2022
Video
Megan Mayton – Murfreesboro City Schools, Murfreesboro, TN
“In the beginning I thought, ‘I don’t want to read a script. I’m a teacher. They hired me to do my job.’ But I have learned that it is so much more.”
10/12/2022
Video
Quinena Bell – Murfreesboro City Schools, Murfreesboro, TN
“When teachers really understand what they are teaching, then you don’t have to do as much reteaching. So the payoff first starts with the students.”
10/12/2022
Video
Quinena Bell – Murfreesboro City Schools, Murfreesboro, TN
“A culture shift overall in the building feels good and feels different – we have the same language, and we speak the same language.”
10/12/2022
Video
Kristin Goncalves – Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA
“Kids are just consuming texts.”
06/07/2022
Video
Kristin Goncalves – Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA
“We saw a huge increase in how students were speaking, reading, writing about the text independently.”
06/07/2022
Media Type
Curricula
Press Release
National Campaign to Celebrate High-Quality Curriculum Selection by NYC Schools as District Embarks on Historic Improvements
The Knowledge Matters Campaign will visit two districts: Bronx 11 and Brooklyn 19.
05/30/2023
Articles
Graves County Schools, Mayfield, KY
Kentucky District Devastated by Tornado Is a National Model for Science Teaching
05/12/2023
Articles
Rio Rancho Observer: New Math Materials All Add Up At Vista Grande Elementary
"I am blown away by the quality of instruction here.”
04/29/2023
Articles
Lafourche Parish School District, Thibodaux, LA
Louisiana District Ravaged by Hurricane & COVID is Bouncing Back with Science
04/18/2023
Articles
San Marcos Unified School District, San Marcos, CA
In California, ‘Slow and Steady’ Is Winning With a Tougher Science Curriculum
04/11/2023
Press Release
National Campaign to Visit New Mexico to Spotlight Districts Implementing High-Quality Math Curricula
New Mexico is part of a network of 13 states being supported by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
04/07/2023
Articles
Tipton County Schools, Covington, TN
Using High-Quality Curriculum Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Still Have Fun Learning
02/07/2023
Articles
Hamilton County Schools, Chattanooga, TN
New Curriculum Adoption Helps Tennessee District Achieve Joy in Classrooms
01/24/2023
Video
Melissa and Lori Love Literacy Podcast featuring Barbara Davidson
Episode 139: Knowledge and Comprehension with Daniel Willingham and Barbara Davidson
01/14/2023
Articles
Murfreesboro City Schools, Murfreesboro, TN
Students in This Tennessee District Are More Literacy-Proficient Post-Pandemic
01/10/2023
Press Release
National Campaign to Visit Schools Transforming Science Instruction with the Help of High-Quality Science Curricula
Visits seek to shine a light on the role science can play in the effort to build students’ background knowledge.
01/05/2023
Press Release
National Campaign to Visit Tennessee Schools to Highlight Exemplary Literacy Instruction
“Our continued spotlight on Tennessee is absolutely warranted."
09/26/2022
Video
Delaware Delivers: Three Delaware districts implement HQIM
"We have built a community amongst ourselves in which we learn these skills from one another."
07/07/2022
Articles
Brandywine School District, Wilmington, DE
Quality Curriculum Is Not Enough: Committed Educator Supports Are Key
06/23/2022
Articles
Appoquinimink School District, Middletown, DE
In Delaware, How a District 'Started Slow to Go Fast' on a New Math Curriculum
06/16/2022
Articles
Caesar Rodney School District, Wyoming, DE
With the World Shut Down, Bringing a Global Prespectiive to Math Class Changed Everything
06/14/2022
Articles
Lebanon Special School District, Lebanon, TN
How Literacy Skills Developed for English Language Learners in Weeks, Not Months
06/06/2022
Articles
Milan Special School District, Milan, TN
School Director's Belief that All Students Can Learn Is Long-Held and Personal
05/31/2022
Articles
Elizabethton City Schools, Elizabethton, TN
How Grade-Level Literacy Doubled in Just 2 Months in a Rural Tennessee District
05/23/2022
Video
Knowledge Matters Campaign Tour Visit, Brandywine School District, Wilmington, DE
"The content hasn't changed, the teachers are still teaching, but students are doing much more of the thinking."
05/04/2022
Social Media
See a second grade foundational skills lesson in Milan Elementary
From practice with sounds to practice with decodable readers, a look at a foundational skills lesson in a Milan second grade classroom.
04/05/2022
Social Media
Hear from teachers about improved reading progress and stellar student work
Come for the knowledge-rich lessons, stay for the stories of kindergarten reading and writing progress from Lebanon teachers in this inspiring thread.
03/30/2022
Articles
Town Square Live: National campaign caps excellence in math tour at Springer
“The curriculum we use forces teachers to really listen to the kids."
03/30/2022
Social Media
Experience our visit to Brandywine School District in Wilmington, DE
Our tour of Springer Middle School and their implementation of Illustrative Mathematics.
03/29/2022