Rob Fleisher

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

February 1, 2025 2 min read

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Spark Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials PRO

Unlock school and district-wide access to professional development, benchmark assessments, data tracking tools, and onboarding support to ensure success with CommonLit’s digital literacy program! CommonLit is an online digital...

Rob Fleisher

January 15, 2025 4 min read

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

April 30, 2024 4 min read

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Improve Reading Comprehension and Track Formative Data with Target Lessons

With CommonLit’s Target Lessons, students develop critical and transferable reading skills while educators seamlessly track formative skill-based data. When students master high-leverage and transferable reading skills, it makes it...

Rob Fleisher

February 6, 2024 4 min read

Spark Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials

CommonLit School Essentials gives schools and districts access to onboarding and Professional Development supports needed to take full advantage of CommonLit’s digital program - for just $2,500 per...

Rob Fleisher

November 25, 2023 3 min read

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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

August 2, 2023 2 min read

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CommonLit has earned ESSA Tier 3 Certification

Learn why this matters and how your team can use ESSER funds to purchase our full program CommonLit is deeply committed to ensuring that its comprehensive ELA program works for...

Rob Fleisher

June 16, 2023 3 min read

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12 Reasons Administrators Love CommonLit

Everything you need to know to bring CommonLit to your district. With so many literacy programs on the market, it can be hard to find the right one. To make...

Rob Fleisher

April 6, 2023 5 min read

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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...

Rob Fleisher

March 14, 2023 5 min read

Use CommonLit's Target Lessons To Remediate Skill Gaps After Benchmark Assessments

Target Lessons are short, skill-based lessons that will engage your students and build critical reading skills. Our team at CommonLit is always developing exciting digital tools and resources that teachers...

Rob Fleisher

March 9, 2023 3 min read

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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

March 8, 2023 5 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

January 12, 2023 2 min read

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13 Veterans Day Texts For Secondary Students

Add these CommonLit texts to your Veterans Day lesson plans for middle and high school students. Veterans Day, a public American holiday, occurs annually on November 11th, celebrating the contributions...

Rob Fleisher

November 1, 2022 7 min read

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Everything You Need to Know about CommonLit’s Free Reading Assessment and Premium Assessment Series

We know that it is critically important for teachers to collect accurate data on student reading performance. At CommonLit, we’re excited to offer two options to teachers and schools:...

Rob Fleisher

October 14, 2022 2 min read

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CommonLit’s School-Wide Data Reports Make Progress Monitoring Easy

CommonLit School Essentials PRO gives teachers and administrators performance, usage, and growth data access for all students At CommonLit, we’ve created a comprehensive and engaging literacy program with over...

Rob Fleisher

August 30, 2022 4 min read

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Usage of CommonLit's Digital Library is Correlated with Student Growth

Learn all about the benefits of implementing CommonLit’s evidence-based program CommonLit is on a mission to ensure that all students can graduate with the reading and writing skills they...

Rob Fleisher

August 15, 2022 4 min read

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5 Strategies to Increase Motivation and Engagement in the Classroom

Challenge all of your students with CommonLit's compelling reading curriculum to increase motivation and engagement in the classroom The best lesson is one that challenges students without overwhelming...

Rob Fleisher

July 14, 2022 3 min read

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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

May 14, 2022 4 min read

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Unlock High Quality Professional Development for CommonLit 360

CommonLit’s on-demand professional development gets teachers ready to teach every 360 Unit. CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive and effective ELA curriculum for grades 6–12. The curriculum includes 6...

Rob Fleisher

January 16, 2022 3 min read

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CommonLit for Co-Teachers

Tips for adding a co-teacher to your classes on CommonLit At CommonLit, we believe that with the right support, all students can access high-quality, rigorous texts. Students are more successful...

Rob Fleisher

January 14, 2022 6 min read

Unlock the Full Benefits of CommonLit 360 with CommonLit School Essentials PRO

The professional development, data tracking tools, and wrap-around supports needed to roll out CommonLit’s comprehensive English Language Arts curriculum for grades 6–12 CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive digital...

Rob Fleisher

January 5, 2022 5 min read

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CommonLit School Essentials PRO Unlocks Best Use of the CommonLit 360 Curriculum

Access school-wide data tracking, professional development, and CommonLit’s Assessment Series to make your rollout of the CommonLit 360 Curriculum a success. The 360 ELA curriculum is a game-changer for...

Rob Fleisher

October 8, 2021 3 min read

Teachers work together as they look at Commonlit's lesson and data

Strategically Utilizing CommonLit Lessons to Track Meaningful Data as a Team

Embed CommonLit’s lessons into your district’s curriculum to facilitate data driven instruction & progress monitoring. Schools and district administrators are constantly bombarded with data. With many teachers assigning...

Rob Fleisher

September 1, 2021 4 min read

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What’s New on CommonLit in 2021?

Brand new content, improved accessibility tools, new features and more! It’s that time of year again — back to school! After a year of navigating the pandemic, altered school schedules,...

Rob Fleisher

August 19, 2021 6 min read

Training and Professional Development Opportunities with CommonLit

Learn all about CommonLit’s free training opportunities and Professional Development packages for schools. Here at CommonLit, we’re committed to ensuring that teachers and administrators have the training and...

Rob Fleisher

July 30, 2021 2 min read

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