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Transform Your Teaching This Fall

Make it your best year ever with this collection of back-to-school tips, strategies, and downloads.

How Making Connects Students to Engineering and Tech

See how the Maker Movement can give students the tools (and a community) to help them take control over their own learning.

Project-Based Learning Through a Making Lens

Supercharge your project-based learning with some help from the Maker Movement.

School Admins: SAMR Tools for Staff Presentations

Have you heard about SAMR? Learn how you can use this tech integration model for your staff presentations.

Nurturing Intrinsic Motivation and Growth Mindset in Writing

Here are some tactical tips to engage and inspire even the most resistant of budding writers.
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Back to School
Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding

By Todd Finley

Through alternative formative assessment, teachers can check for student understanding without falling back on the tedious or intimidating pop quiz.

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Teacher Leadership
Pride of Profession: Striving to Become a Great Teacher

By Ben Johnson

How can we expect students to aspire to be great if we are not also aspiring for greatness?

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Teacher Leadership
Outstanding in Your Field: What It Takes to Be a Great Teacher

By Ben Johnson

What does greatness mean in education? Administrator, author, and educator Ben Johnson ponders the quality of excellence.

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Differentiated Instruction
15+ Readiness Resources for Driving Student Success

By John McCarthy

Students learn when ready, but not everyone reaches that point simultaneously. Discover resources to help meet the readiness needs of all your students.

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Teacher Leadership
Honoring Pioneers in Education

By Ben Johnson

Let's take a moment to admire innovators in our field including some who in spite of criticism continued forward.

Back to School
9 Ways to Plan Transformational Lessons: Planning the Best Curriculum Unit Ever

By Todd Finley

Transformational lessons don't just happen. They require planning, mindfulness, and a commitment to shift away from educational approaches of the past.

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Technology Integration
Technology SAMR Model for Administrators Part 3: File Management

By Josh Work

Through the SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition) model of technology, administrators can keep track of files, set a tech-friendly tone, and lead more effectively.

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Five-Minute Film Festival
Five-Minute Film Festival: Classroom Makeovers to Engage Learners

By Amy Erin Borovoy (aka VideoAmy)

How can a classroom be set up to maximize learning? Get inspired by this video playlist with tips and ideas for teachers to make over their classrooms.

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Professional Development
Top 12 Summer Tips for Top Teachers

By Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher

For top teachers, the list of 12 tips for maximizing your summer vacation includes reflecting, connecting, laughing, and coming out swinging in September.

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Differentiated Instruction
Myth-Busting Differentiated Instruction: 3 Myths and 3 Truths

By John McCarthy

With delivery of instruction, one size does not fit all. John McCarthy launches his differentiated instruction series by busting three common myths about DI.

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PBL Planning
A World of Project Ideas (You Can Steal)

By Suzie Boss

To get off to a flying start planning this summer, borrow good project ideas from other teachers and adapt them to fit your context.

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Coding in the Classroom
Coding for Kindergarteners

By Sam Patterson

Teaching young children to code is far from a tedious exercise with the thoughtful, age-appropriate use of game-like apps and robotic devices.

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Literacy
Why Storytelling in the Classroom Matters

By Matthew James Friday

Teachers, by their nature, are storytellers. You can improve this skillset with seven steps for engaging younger students through narrative.

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Brain-Based Learning
The Neuroscience Behind Stress and Learning

By Judy Willis MD

Neuroimaging and EEG studies provide a scientific basis for the sometimes controversial belief that children become better learners when they actually enjoy learning.

4 745 18,375 views

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