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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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Student Engagement
Tools for Teaching: Managing a Large Class Size

By Rebecca Alber

Do you have more than 30 students? Check out these strategies for keeping a large group of kids engaged and managed.

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Formative Assessment
7 Tips to Make Running Records Manageable and Useful

By Bridget Stegman

Track your students' progress as readers with scheduled practice, an understanding of each student's cuing system, immediate feedback, and comprehension questions to check for understanding.

Education Trends
What Is Personalization, Really?

By Mike Martin & Adam Bunting

Personalized learning means student agency, defining curriculum by real-life skills, defining learning expectations, encouraging self-knowledge, and teachers getting to know their students as people.

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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...

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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.

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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.

2 222 870 views

Student Engagement
Tools for Teaching: Managing a Large Class Size

By Rebecca Alber

Do you have more than 30 students? Check out these strategies for keeping a large group of kids engaged and managed.

17 463 37,391 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 5,100 30,957 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 2,878 30,166 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 2,303 23,491 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 16,812 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 7,461 13,460 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 1,479 11,384 views

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