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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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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.

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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Maker Education
Supporting the Teacher Maker Movement

By Heather Wolpert-Gawron

In order for teachers to encourage student innovation, they need the freedom to be innovative as well. Eight ways school leaders can support faculty who want to develop engaging curriculum.

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Student Engagement
Using Mentor Texts to Motivate and Support Student Writers

By Rebecca Alber

Providing students with examples of good writing is vital. Here are tips for using mentor texts in the classroom and ideas on where you can find them.

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New Teachers
Back to School: Preparing for Day One

By Rebecca Alber

Six tips for helping new teachers have a successful first day of school.

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Student Engagement
Creating Learning Environments

By Ben Johnson

Edutopia blogger Ben Johnson proposes that in the digital information age, the teacher's main role will be to guide and motivate students and provide rationale for learning.

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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.

5 832 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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