- Professional Learning
Research-Based Supports for Algebra Students
Offering effective instructional supports to secondary students in algebra helps build learners’ confidence and math identity.Your content has been saved!
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4 Strategies to Create a Curious Classroom
Teachers can promote curiosity and critical thinking by helping students make sense of new information.Your content has been saved!
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Building a Teaching Portfolio
During job interviews, digital or hard copy portfolios give teachers the opportunity to provide evidence of a student-centered approach to teaching.100Your content has been saved!
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AI Tool Demo: Generating Podcasts About Class Content With NotebookLM
With this advanced tool from Google, teachers can upload sources about a particular topic, then automatically output an interactive podcast with two AI hosts.Your content has been saved!
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What Happened the Year I Banned AI
The choice to keep artificial intelligence tools out of my class has been the most impactful decision that I have made as a teacher.118Your content has been saved!
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Recognizing and Addressing Emotional Overload to Better Support Students
Teachers may misinterpret behaviors as laziness when their students are actually working beyond their emotional limit.108Your content has been saved!
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My 5 Cs of Classroom Management
By setting clear expectations and promoting a sense of connection, teachers can set all students up for success at the beginning of the year.123Your content has been saved!
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Are Robots Friends or Foes?
A project-based learning unit asks second-grade students this and other questions in an engaging hands-on experience.112Your content has been saved!
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6 Essential Tips for New Elementary Teachers
New teachers have a lot to think about as the school year approaches, and focusing on these ideas can help them get off to a good start.131Your content has been saved!
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A Simple Outdoor Activity to Build Collaboration Skills
Taking elementary students outside to work together in a team-based scavenger hunt can help build classroom community.122Your content has been saved!
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- Classroom Management
Managing Your Class Without Collective Punishment
Even in moments of frustration, teachers can hold disruptive students accountable without punishing the class as a group.2.7kYour content has been saved!
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15 Quick (and Mighty) Retrieval Practices
From concept maps to flash cards to Pictionary, these activities help students reflect on—and remember—what they’ve learned. - Literacy
3 Games to Amp Up Reading Instruction
Gamifying literacy and phonics lessons teaches students valuable social-emotional skills, gives them regular movement breaks, and increases their engagement. - Brain-Based Learning
7 Study Habits to Teach Kids This School Year
Studying is critical to academic success—but many students have never been shown how to do it effectively. - Learning Environments
27 Ways to Optimize Your Classroom Design for Better Learning
A research-based lineup of smart, effective classroom design tips that support deep learning, reduce distraction, and build belonging.
- Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Integrating Technology Into PBL
Weaving technological skill-building through project-based learning units gives students agency in how to express their knowledge. - Administration & Leadership
How to Quick-Launch a PBL Initiative
Start with just a two-hour session to identify goals for project-based learning and get your implementation team on board.229Your content has been saved!
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Creating Authentic Learning Experiences in Early Childhood Classrooms
Bringing in outside experts and doing fieldwork can make project-based learning an invaluable experience for young learners.161Your content has been saved!
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Teaching Students to Use Chunking to Tackle Complex Problems
Middle and high school teachers can show students how to break projects into smaller parts to support their ability to manage their work.147Your content has been saved!
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Using a Learning Map to Build Exemplary PBL Units
By developing—and revisiting—an instructional roadmap that connects standards, activities, and skill development, these teachers put students on a path toward mastery.
- STEM
How Accessible Tech Can Promote Empathy and Collaboration
A middle school design and technology teacher breaks down a three-project unit that nicely overlaps with STEAM content.235Your content has been saved!
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6 Easily Digestible Math Podcasts
A math specialist breaks down her favorite podcasts, all of which are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and elsewhere. - STEM
Low-Cost, High-Interest Elementary STEM Activities
Teachers can build an engaging STEM program on a limited budget by going slowly and adding one activity at a time—which also gives them time to learn.378Your content has been saved!
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4 Ways to Connect Elementary Math to Everyday Life
By setting up playful activities built around creativity and real-world relevance, elementary teachers can bring math to life in a whole new way. - STEM
A Guide to Preschool STEAM Activities
Lessons focused on science, technology, engineering, arts, and math give young learners an engaging way to explore new concepts.
- Formative Assessment
Empowering Students Through Effective Feedback
These strategies, including peer-to-peer feedback, can help ensure that elementary students understand and can act on the feedback.225Your content has been saved!
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60-Second Strategy: Silent Partners
When teachers bring this fun formative assessment game into a lesson, they get a snapshot of what students have understood, and what they haven’t.Your content has been saved!
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15 Formative Assessment Hacks to Boost Students’ Learning
Common formative assessment techniques can work a little better with these simple tweaks. - Formative Assessment
How to Set Up Formative Assessments for Summative Success
Assessing students’ learning during a class or project can help you adapt your teaching and guide them to meet their goals.265Your content has been saved!
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60-Second Strategy: Quick Sorts
In this formative assessment game, table groups compete against each other to categorize key terms and concepts from the previous night’s assignment.Your content has been saved!
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