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Recess for High School Students

Watch how one school uses structured activities during recess to help students (and teachers!) stay focused for the rest of the day.

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.

Blended Learning: Working With One iPad

Watch how one educator has found a way to put a single iPad to use so the whole class benefits.

6 Teaching Tools for Black History Month

Check out this list of resources to help your students dig deeper into black history, culture, and life.
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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...

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Lesson Plans
6 Teaching Tools for Black History Month

By Matt Davis

From interactive timelines and rich multimedia to lesson plans and study guides, find a variety of web resources that can help bring black history into the classroom.

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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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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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Student Engagement
How Student Centered Is Your Classroom?

By Rebecca Alber

Check out these questions to guide you in reflecting on how much the learning environment you have designed promotes student voice and choice.

14 1,801 26,120 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 1,165 22,863 views

Alternative Scheduling
Less Is More: The Value of a Teacher's Time

By José Vilson

Teachers could become more effective with their students if they had more time outside of class for planning instruction and grading student work.

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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 16,863 views

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