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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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Professional Development
Reconnecting Adults With Playful Learning

By Reem Rahman Kareem

Creativity and self-expression are the keys to helping adults understand how playful learning can enrich the experience of the children in their world.

Student Engagement
A New Must-Read for All Educators

By Elena Aguilar

Stories of hope sure to nurture the educator's spirit are offered up in this book by Tom Little.

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Student Engagement
Making Connections

By Geoff Richman

When teachers make a point of connecting with students as individuals, those students will feel valued, be willing to take risks, and ultimately thrive.

Social and Emotional Learning
You Need an Elevator Pitch About School Culture and Climate

By Maurice Elias

Once a leadership team has helped the school community understand the importance of culture and climate, they are ready to assess it and improve it.

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Apps
9 Mobile Apps for Poetry Month

By Monica Burns

Poetry comes from the soul, but apps can help students embrace the form, whether it's shape and theme generators or videos of actors reading Shakespeare.

107 541 views

Open Education Resources
Google for Educators: The Best Features for Busy Teachers

These tools from Google for Educators, whether old and familiar or new and improved, will keep teachers and students inspired, inventive, and organized.

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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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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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Lesson Plans
7 Classroom Resources for Pi Day

By Matt Davis

In this collection, Matt Davis rounds up some of Edutopia's favorite Pi Day resources for teachers.

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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 1,754 14,494 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.

10 524 13,849 views

Brain-Based Learning
Put Working Memory to Work in Learning

By Donna Wilson, Ph.D.

Strengthen your students' conscious processing of information with techniques like repetition, gamification, visualization, emphasizing relevance, and peer teaching.

15 722 11,774 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.

19 596 11,760 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.

1 732 10,635 views

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