06/23/2026
Good food. Great company. 🍽️✨
The design team recently got together for lunch, with plenty of laughs and some quality time together. We love days like this!
Saddleback Educational, Inc. Our family-owned business has been serving struggling readers, and the teacher
is the largest Hi-Lo Book (high-interest, low-readability) publisher providing custom Hi-Lo Solutions for students in need of reading intervention. Saddleback Educational Publishing is the leading source for high-interest, low-readability materials for students in grades 3-12, ELL, at-risk and adult struggling learners. Saddleback creates solutions that combine rigorous, complex themes with accessible reading levels giving the most struggling readers the chance to achieve success.
06/23/2026
Good food. Great company. 🍽️✨
The design team recently got together for lunch, with plenty of laughs and some quality time together. We love days like this!
06/23/2026
Why This Librarian Loves It When Teens Geek Out https://zurl.co/AkX9r
Why This Librarian Loves It When Teens Geek Out Why This Librarian Loves It When Teens Geek Out
📚✨ A great school year starts with the right books.
Fill your classroom library with high-interest, accessible reads that spark curiosity, build confidence, and help students discover the joy of reading. Because when students see books they want to pick up, everything can change. 🌟
06/22/2026
📚 Join Saddleback’s Jill Haney and Dr. Marie Heath of Seidlitz Education for a live webinar on supporting SLIFE and newcomer learners.
🗓️ July 30, 2026
⏰ 12 PM PDT | 3 PM EDT
Learn how a research-based, culturally relevant curriculum framework can strengthen literacy, resilience, and long-term academic success. ✨
👉 Register today! https://zurl.co/sqJCy
06/21/2026
Sweden is cutting back on technology and going back to books! https://zurl.co/yFKsY
Back to books - Sweden's schools cutting back on digital learning Swedish classrooms swap laptops for books, pens and paper, raising concerns from the tech sector.
06/20/2026
Students in Chris Schaffer’s biomedical engineering class at Cornell University are required to speak directly to an instructor in what he calls an “oral defense.” https://zurl.co/uwSf1
Perfect homework, blank stares: Why colleges are turning to oral exams to combat AI A growing number of U.S. college instructors are turning to oral exams to help combat an AI crisis in higher education.
06/18/2026
Poet, teacher, publisher, and producer Kwame Alexander writes the books that he wants to read. https://zurl.co/2zZM6
Stories Keep Kwame Alexander Excited About What’s Possible Inspiring 85,000 students and counting to discover that reading can be theirs
🎭 Classic literature becomes more accessible with The Man in the Iron Mask.
This Hi-Lo adaptation helps students experience adventure, suspense, and timeless storytelling without feeling overwhelmed by complex text. 📚
Get more info here 👉 https://zurl.co/fCiqB
Every student deserves the chance to feel successful as a reader. 📖💫
Saddleback's literacy collections are designed for older striving readers, offering age-respectful, high-interest books that support phonics, fluency, comprehension, and confidence, without the stigma. Because the right book doesn't just build skills; it helps students see themselves as readers. 💛
06/16/2026
“When we’re competing with screens, we’re going to lose,” https://zurl.co/vUHgO
This elementary school banned screens in the middle of the year. Will it solve their reading crisis? A Michigan elementary school banned student screens to boost reading and rebuild classroom engagement.