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Integrating Sustainability via Cross-Curricular Connections

Watch how one teacher built a program where students looked at sustainability through the lenses of biology, economics and physics.

7 Classroom Resources for Pi Day

Celebrate everybody's favorite mathematical constant, 3.141592653589!

Student Apps for Winter Reading

Too cold to go outside? These apps and games can help kids enjoy the spirit of winter without the ice and snow.

Boyhood: A Great Film to Use With Teens

It may not have won every Academy Award for which it was nominated, but it's still a wonderful teaching tool.

8 Tips for Reaching Out to Parents

Building trust is key -- this post gives you some specific ideas to strengthen communication with your students' parents and/or guardians.
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Literacy
The Power of Poetry in Primary Classrooms

By Matthew James Friday

Poetry is an effective tool for broadening elementary students' reading choices, strengthening sentence-level skills, teaching ELLs about English, and reinforcing learning across many subjects.

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Game-Based Learning
How to Celebrate Pi Day in Your Classroom

By Noelle Filippenko

Just in time for Pi Day, here's a resource for games, videos, and information to help your students have fun with this amazing mathematical concept.

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Technology Integration
Digital Learning Day: Resource Roundup

The fourth annual Digital Learning Day will be on March 13, 2015. We’ve compiled some useful resources to help you celebrate the day with your class and support digital learners all year long.

7 3,760 105 views

Project-Based Learning
Collaboration: Key to Innovation

By Heather Wolpert-Gawron

Teaching students about product development uses all the core subjects, and it begins with teachers willing to create their own atmosphere of collaborative innovation.

Mobile Learning
14 Virtual Tools for the Math Classroom

By Monica Burns

Edutopia blogger Monica Burns presents a wealth of iPad apps to transform daily math lessons for elementary students.

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Student Engagement
Tools for Teaching: Managing a Large Class Size

By Rebecca Alber

Do you have more than 30 students? Check out these strategies for keeping a large group of kids engaged and managed.

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Formative Assessment
7 Tips to Make Running Records Manageable and Useful

By Bridget Stegman

Track your students' progress as readers with scheduled practice, an understanding of each student's cuing system, immediate feedback, and comprehension questions to check for understanding.

2 84 455 views

Teaching Strategies
Applying Mindfulness to Mundane Classroom Tasks

By Abby Wills

By adding a fun, creative element of focus and stillness to a classroom routine, you can help your students learn to appreciate and practice self-regulation.

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Classroom Management
Incentivizing Your Class: The Engagement-Based Classroom Management Model

By Dr. Lori Desautels

Invite your students to participate in a behavioral model that helps them level up with their engagement and attitude -- much like a video game.

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Formative Assessment
Formative Assessment Is Transformational!

By Andrew Miller

More than just numbers in a grade book, formative assessment practices can change how you teach, how your students learn, and how your classroom functions.

2 1,180 23,737 views

Lesson Plans
Resources for Learning About Empathy on Valentine's Day

By Matt Davis

Empathy is an important skill. In honor of Valentine's Day, Matt Davis has gathered a variety of great resources to help teachers bring lessons about compassion and caring into the classroom.

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Social and Emotional Learning
Teaching Empathy: Are We Teaching Content or Students?

By Terry Heick

Teaching empathy is about teaching students, not content -- how they feel about the incoming knowledge will ultimately determine how useful it is to them.

4 1,718 13,579 views

Differentiated Instruction
Differentiation Is Just Too Difficult: Myth-Busting DI Part 3

By John McCarthy

Most teachers differentiate their instruction intuitively because not all students are the same. For those willing to commit to DI, the next step is intentional differentiation.

10 375 11,534 views

Professional Development
It's Time to Make Learning Fun Again . . . Even for Adults

By Carl Hooker

Bring professional development events to life with Interactive Learning Challenges, which merge collaboration, interactivity, and problem solving in a hands-on environment for learning technology.

19 581 11,282 views

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