Thirty short, ready-to-use literacy newsletter blurbs, written specifically for staff newsletters — one for roughly every week of the school year. Each entry gives your staff a focused literacy idea: a concept explained in plain language, a bit of research or context behind it, and a Focus Challenge that turns the idea into something a teacher can try.

Sequenced to match your school year

Newsletter No. 1 (“Every Student, Every Day”) opens the year with a foundational mindset. The middle stretch moves through the building blocks of literacy instruction: phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary tiers, fluency, writing stamina, classroom discourse. As the year turns toward spring, the entries shift into testing season topics. The final entries (No. 28–30) wind the year down with reflection prompts.

You don’t have to use them in order, and you don’t have to use all thirty. Pick the ones that match what’s happening in your building this week.

How to use this resource

• Find your moment. Entries are numbered roughly by time of year, start through end of year.
• Copy and paste. Each entry is written to drop directly into a staff newsletter — no editing required.
• Use the Focus Challenge. Every entry ends with one concrete action for staff to try that week.
• Skip around freely. You don’t need to use these in order or use all thirty.