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9 Ways to Plan Transformational Lessons

Here are some tactical tips (+ a download you can print out for reference) to help you plan the best curriculum unit ever!

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.
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Back to School
8 Weeks of Free Teacher Resources for Back to School

All of Edutopia’s downloadable and printable back-to-school resources are collected here for easy classroom reference. Check back weekly for updates!

New Teachers
7-Step Prep: Make a Weekly Plan for YOU!

By Maia Heyck-Merlin

Advance planning is essential for a week of effective teaching, yet the most effective planning system will let you incorporate and track those on-the-fly changes.

Literacy
Motivation: The Overlooked Sixth Component of Reading

By Heather Lambert

Motivate reluctant readers by engaging them with the three critical elements of healthy child and youth development: connection, contribution, and competence.

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Five-Minute Film Festival
Five-Minute Film Festival: The Science of Sports

By Keyana Stevens

Sports offers a perfect opportunity to explore concepts like force, motion, potential energy, velocity, and torque. Engage your students with this collection of videos about the intersection of science and sports.

Creativity
Turn Genius Hour Into Genius Year

By Jennifer B. Bernstein, Ph.D.

Why limit Genius Hour to a small block of time? Through conversations and dares, students can turn this creative, self-directed approach into a life practice.

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Back to School
Planning the Best Curriculum Unit Ever

By Todd Finley

The good curriculum is in the details, so focus your teacher super powers on the granular aspects of planning ahead for the new school year.

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Teaching Strategies
How to Save Time by Reducing Email: 6 Strategies for Staying Afloat

By Brian Sztabnik

Email should be a lifesaver instead of a raging flood. Save time and increase efficiency through developing new habits, using templates, and ruthlessly unsubscribing.

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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.

5 794 77,948 views

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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Teacher Development
Teachers: Five Ways to Ease Back into School

By Elena Aguilar

Does the thought of returning to school result in a tense knot in your stomach or a joyful flutter in your heart? Strategies to manage those feelings, focus on the possibilities, and ease back into the rhythm of teaching.

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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.

6 832 21,332 views

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.

10 747 20,354 views

Teaching Strategies
Mastering the Teaching Game

By Carol Tomlinson

After listening to an interview with top tennis coach Sven Groeneveld, Carol Tomlinson clarifies eight essential principles that teaching shares with high-level sports coaching.

9 1 18,671 views

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