- Technology Integration
6 Things We’re Getting Wrong About Tech Integration
Despite years of investment, many schools are still missing the mark on technology integration. Here’s what the experts told us needs to change—and how to get started this year. - Assessment
How to Give Effective Feedback—and Save Your Sanity
Grading is a real pain point, but the good news is that giving students targeted feedback on their work is more effective for their learning and saves teachers time. - Teacher Collaboration
6 Strategies for Successful Co-teaching
Joint leadership in the classroom is more than a model of instruction. It requires mutual respect and a shared vision for students’ success.105Your content has been saved!
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60-Second Strategy: One Word, One Sentence
When time is short, this two-minute closing activity gives students a chance to reflect and make meaning, and teachers an opportunity to assess how the lesson went.Your content has been saved!
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Why Students Should Read Whole Books
Three members of the Teach Like a Champion team explain why they are “unapologetic about the book.”120Your content has been saved!
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Using Songs to Boost Literacy in Kindergarten
Research-based strategies for supporting the development of reading and speaking skills, no instruments required.139Your content has been saved!
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22 Fun Ways to Spark Classroom Connections
These engaging, low-stakes, and teacher-tested activities can help students quickly warm up to each other—and to you. - Administration & Leadership
Advice I Wish I Had Heard Before Becoming a School Administrator
For this award-winning superintendent, nothing was harder than his first year as principal, and these pointers would have helped.127Your content has been saved!
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Research-Based Supports for Algebra Students
Offering effective instructional supports to secondary students in algebra helps build learners’ confidence and math identity.228Your 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.151Your content has been saved!
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- Research
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. - 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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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. - 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. - 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.
- Integrated Studies
Combining Science and Music for Deeper Learning
Elementary music teachers can incorporate scientific concepts into lessons so students get a multilayered learning experience. - Integrated Studies
A Hands-On Approach to Interdisciplinary Learning
By integrating multiple subjects in a cohesive project, teachers can empower students to think flexibly and persist through challenges. - Project-Based Learning (PBL)
7 Projects Teachers Stand By
Planning for projects can be difficult and time-consuming. This list of teacher-tested projects—complete with printable resources—should offer a big head start. - Integrated Studies
Celebrating Pi Day Across the Curriculum
Engaging, informative Pi Day activities designed for middle school math, ELA, science, and social studies. - Integrated Studies
Integrating Math Into Elementary PE
Teachers can work together to reveal the ways that math concepts are already present in PE activities.
- Professional Learning
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.235Your content has been saved!
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Remembering More Than Your ‘Why’
When teachers focus on their purpose and practice, they can develop and bolster habits that support their success as educators. - Administration & Leadership
Helping School Leaders Embrace a Peer Coaching Plan
Administrators get a lot of benefit from taking time to reflect together, exchange strategies, and support one another.209Your content has been saved!
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Professional Development for School Leaders
By regularly scheduling time for mentorship and professional learning opportunities, administrators can avoid feeling isolated in their roles.377Your content has been saved!
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Ask Me Anything: Write for Us
Edutopia is hosting an Ask Me Anything (AMA) about how to write for us! The panelists share their experiences, as well as their strategies for getting published.
- 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.231Your 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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