- Formative Assessment
Making Formative Assessments More Efficient and Effective
Incorporating peer review and individual reflections makes frequent, intentional formative assessment manageable, with big benefits for student learning.Your content has been saved!
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Using Questions to Encourage Emergent Learning
Understanding the importance of preschool students’ questions is key to guiding their learning experiences and fostering a spirit of inquiry.Your content has been saved!
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Benefits of Using Skills-Based Instruction in Advanced Placement Courses
With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP scores.Your content has been saved!
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Making Literary Analysis Creative Through Thematic Sculptures
When students use playful materials to build a physical object that represents their thinking, they grapple with texts in new ways.Your content has been saved!
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How School Leaders Can Make High-Stakes Decisions With Clarity and Empathy
When every option feels hard or impossible, this framework helps school leaders make clear, confident decisions—and communicate them well.Your content has been saved!
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Helping Students Learn the Art of Trying in Math
These four classroom shifts can make academic risk-taking feel safer, clearer, and more worthwhile for middle school students.566Your content has been saved!
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6 Simple Ways to Encourage Elementary Students to Read
Reading is a core life skill, and these activities help keep it interesting and fun for young readers.1.2kYour content has been saved!
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Five Math Procedures To Help Students Learn From Their Mistakes
When common math errors are examined, discussed, and revised, they can deepen students’ learning.1.4kYour content has been saved!
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How Women in School Leadership Can Combat All-Too-Common Stereotypes
Confidence, collaboration, and community can help female administrators “lead from a place of authenticity.”580Your content has been saved!
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Maintaining Strong Family Partnerships Year-Round
Finding family engagement strategies that feel authentic and manageable can help elementary teachers establish and maintain close relationships with parents.463Your content has been saved!
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A Scaffolding Strategy to Help Experienced ELLs Express Complex Ideas
This technique gives multilingual students explicit instruction on how to effectively develop their ideas for each part of a paragraph and to link one idea to the next.12.6kYour content has been saved!
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How to Differentiate Without Splitting Students Up
Advice for teachers who want to make sure everyone in their classroom works and learns in tandem.9.8kYour content has been saved!
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How to Develop Test-Ready Students
There’s a difference between teaching to the test and developing test-specific thinking that will help students effectively apply what they’ve learned all year. - Mindfulness
Combining Mindfulness, Movement, and Meaning in Brain Breaks
The best brain breaks aren’t random or mere time-fillers—they’re purposeful pauses that help students regulate, reconnect, and reset. - Student Engagement
Simple Swaps for Moving From Passive to Active Learning
These tips demonstrate that planning for active learning experiences doesn’t have to be time-intensive or difficult.6.5kYour content has been saved!
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- Technology Integration
A Virtual Collaboration Project Centered on American Democracy
In a program sponsored by the Smithsonian, students in two different parts of the country interact to explore a civics question that is meaningful to both groups.796Your content has been saved!
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Problem-Based Learning and Future-Ready Skills
Well-designed projects help students build valuable skills such as collaboration, critical thinking, and communication.4.1kYour content has been saved!
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Boosting Midyear Engagement With Place-Based PBL
High school teachers can build projects around issues in the local community to motivate students before and after winter break.2.4kYour content has been saved!
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Making Project-Based Learning More Impactful by Emphasizing Depth Over Speed
Teachers can help students get the most out of PBL by focusing on the development of effective learning habits.2.4kYour content has been saved!
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Bringing Together Cosplay and Coding in High School
In this class, students learn engineering skills as well as costume design and event planning, culminating in a convention that’s open to the whole community.
- Literacy
How to Turn Vocabulary Lessons Into Nuanced Conversations About Meaning
Use 'semantic gradients' to turn vocabulary study into a shared thinking activity that explores the subtle differences between related words.5.5kYour content has been saved!
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Fantastic Picture Books to Inspire Student Writing
Elementary teachers can use these books to give students an easy entry point into writing now that winter break is over—and throughout the year. - Literacy
A Scaffolding Strategy to Help Experienced ELLs Express Complex Ideas
This technique gives multilingual students explicit instruction on how to effectively develop their ideas for each part of a paragraph and to link one idea to the next.12.6kYour content has been saved!
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Forming a Literacy Task Force for Your District
To ensure that literacy practices are aligned to research districtwide, you need a plan—and a team to help carry it out.3.5kYour content has been saved!
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Using Text-to-Speech Technology to Support All Students
Built-in screen readers improve the accessibility of texts and can help students achieve success in building higher-level literacy skills.2.3kYour content has been saved!
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- Student Wellness
For Elementary Counselors, Big Caseloads Require Getting Creative
When you’re one counselor to several hundred students, you need to leverage support from both teachers and students—and learn when to say no.382Your content has been saved!
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You Are OK and You Will Be OK: Navigating Menopause as a Teacher
When in your mid-career, if you can openly acknowledge this important stage of life and find support, you'll feel more empowered to manage challenges.1.2kYour content has been saved!
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What Teaching With a Chronic Illness Taught Me About Rest and Resilience
For teachers navigating chronic illness or pain, building a support system can keep students on track.1.4kYour content has been saved!
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Why ‘Use Your People’ Is a Key Lesson for Principals
Principals often start out in the role trying to do everything themselves, but learning to delegate is a must—both for themselves and for their schools.3.8kYour content has been saved!
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How I’ve Sustained a Long Teaching Career
A veteran teacher shares three things she keeps in mind to avoid burnout and maintain her love for the profession.51kYour content has been saved!
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