by Leslie Laud | Jun 12, 2026 | Virtual instruction
Why TIDE? Guest post by Gr 7 Teacher – Shelby Gale TIDE (topic statement, important evidence, detailed examination, ending) is an organizational strategy used as part of evidence-based writing instruction. TIDE helps students plan and structure their writing....
by Leslie Laud | May 14, 2026 | Virtual instruction
The Essential Role of Our 20-Point Scales For students to take themselves through the writing process and produce a high-quality piece, they need the language to self-regulate — language that they can use to walk themselves through each step and that tells them what a...
by Leslie Laud | Feb 15, 2026 | Virtual instruction
This post is a love letter to Quick Writes – how they came to be, how the field shaped, studied and refined them, and why building them into your weekly routine might be one of the highest-leverage instructional moves you can make – all with TIDE-L at the...
by Leslie Laud | Sep 7, 2025 | Writing
In the 1970s, Dr. Don Deshler and his team at the University of Kansas were grappling with a persistent question: how do you make learning stick? Undeterred, they pursued and secured a multimillion dollar federal grant to study and solve it, and won. Decades later,...
by Leslie Laud | May 28, 2025 | Instructional Planning
The Genre Shuffle: How Writing Instructional Planning Has Evolved – And Why Interleaving is Winning By Leslie Laud (think SRSD) and Tina Zampitella (AIM Academy) Leslie Laud is the director of think SRSD, an organization that works to research SRSD...
