What’s New in the CAFE Book, Second Edition?

On June 4, we announced that the second edition of The CAFE Book is in production and will be released this fall. After a year of writing, editing, and writing some more, this announcement was a huge milestone for us. More recently, we have been working on copy edits, making decisions on the interior design of the book, and, most importantly, celebrating that we will soon be able to get it into your hands!

Those of you who have been using CAFE for years will be happy to know that the core components are the same. As fellow lifelong learners, you’ll also be excited to know that the content has been vastly expanded. We took a deeper dive into all the components, and incorporated more scaffolds and explanations to deepen understanding, refine the focus on student needs, and advance instruction to increase student success. Those who are new to CAFE will find a clear explanation of a system designed to help you assess students, determine instructional needs, teach using a protocol intended for all settings, and organize student information.

The expanded second edition of The CAFE Book includes the following:

• A revised CAFE Menu that now has categories within the four key components to help inform instructional decisions
• Updated Ready Reference Guides that include identifiers for who may need the strategy, language we use when teaching the strategy, instructional pivots, and partnering strategies
• A close look at the instructional practices used to teach
• A dive into strategy acquisition through the Cognitive Processes of Reading.
• New and improved forms for the conferring notebook to support more effective conferring with students
• The addition of CAFE’s Essential Elements, a resource to guide your understanding and implementation
• A close look at Touch Points, which we use to monitor our teaching and student learning
• And much more!

The second edition of The CAFE Book is 100 percent centered on student success. We often hear that it is important to teach the children, not the curriculum. We believe you need to teach both. It is our job to teach the content of the curriculum to all children, and with CAFE, we focus on their individual needs in determining how to do that. CAFE puts the child at the center of instruction and provides a visible, systematic, organized approach to teaching and learning.

We are so excited for the release of the second edition that we want to give our Tip of the Week readers a sneak peek now. Below you will find a copy of the revised CAFE Menu. It is still in the final design stages, but we just couldn’t wait to share! We hope you like the revised menu and will join us in the excitement of this new edition.

CAFE Menu