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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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School Leadership
Not Giving Up On a Student

By Ben Johnson

How can teachers and administrators help students overcome negative attitudes about school and learning?

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Five-Minute Film Festival
Five-Minute Film Festival: Hooray for Pi Day

By Keyana Stevens

Do you celebrate Pi Day? Pi is an essential mathematical symbol, representing the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Coincidentally, pie, a delicious dessert usually made with a pastry crust and fruit filling, shares the same...

68 views

Curriculum Planning
5 Highly Effective Teaching Practices

By Rebecca Alber

Check out these researched-based, best teaching practices and share with us the ways you already use them in your classroom.

1,623 views

Professional Development
Should Students Have a Role in Professional Development?

By Suzie Boss

Check out these real-life examples of students playing an active role in their teachers' professional learning.

1 661 views

Lesson Plans
National Poetry Month: Useful Resources for Teachers and Students

By Matt Davis

In honor of National Poetry Month in April, Matt Davis has put together a list of useful poetry links for educators, including resources from the web, Edutopia's most popular poetry-themed blogs, and other quick reads.

3 544 353 views

Teaching Strategies
The Nuts and Bolts of Explicit Modeling

By Todd Finley

The eight steps of EM include describing the concept or skill, reducing it to critical elements, thinking aloud, teaching with cues, and engaging students' senses.

78 529 views

Project-Based Learning
5 PBL Best Practices for Redefining the Teacher's Role

By Joshua Block

PBL changes a teacher's traditional role through framing the learning, helping students develop ideas, consulting as they revise, and encouraging feedback, reflection, and authentic presentations.

148 712 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.

9 5,088 30,504 views

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.

2 2,844 29,566 views

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 2,292 23,076 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.

4 1,238 16,839 views

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 7,422 13,265 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.

9 1,476 11,126 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 2,814 10,833 views

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