- Student Engagement
Getting (and Keeping) Early Learners’ Attention
These ideas for lesson hooks—like using songs, video clips, and picture walks—can motivate young students to focus on learning.Your content has been saved!
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Celebrating the Creative Process, Not Just the Final Product, With Journey Boards
Teachers can help students build confidence in their work and community with their peers through journey boards.Your content has been saved!
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3 Ways to Help Students Overcome the Forgetting Curve
Our brains are wired to forget things unless we take active steps to remember. Here’s how you can help students hold on to what they learn. - Classroom Management
60-Second Strategy: Back Pocket Questions
With this simple activity, the final minutes before the bell rings can be an opportunity for review—not disarray.Your content has been saved!
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Modernizing Shakespeare With a Tech Twist
Students can have fun and learn a lot by making some 21st-century linguistic and thematic tweaks to the Bard’s plays.109Your content has been saved!
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3 ChatGPT Features Worthy of a Teacher’s Attention
An edtech expert shares how the popular AI tool can help you save time while increasing your impact. - Education Trends
With Men Abandoning Teaching, What’s the Cost to Boys?
Fewer male teachers means fewer male mentors—and for many boys, that’s affecting how they learn, behave, and envision their futures. - STEM
6 Easily Digestible Math Podcasts
A math specialist breaks down her favorite podcasts, all of which are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and elsewhere. - ChatGPT & Generative AI
How to Thoughtfully Use AI to Create Meaningful Lessons
Computer science and math teachers can use artificial intelligence tools with intentionality to create effective learning experiences.135Your content has been saved!
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Using Values-Alignment Messaging to Teach Healthy Digital Habits
Thoughtful phone policies are helpful, but teens need more than rules, and schools can help them build digital self-agency.115Your content has been saved!
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23 Ways to Quiet a Chaotic Middle School Class
Teacher-tested attention-getting routines to help you quickly restore calm and focus to noisy middle school classrooms. - Formative Assessment
15 Formative Assessment Hacks to Boost Students’ Learning
Common formative assessment techniques can work a little better with these simple tweaks. - Communication Skills
A Simple Way to Get Elementary Students Writing Every Day
With this easy-to-adapt quick-write strategy, students steadily build their writing skills, a little at a time. - Technology Integration
5 Engaging AI Classroom Activities to Try With Your Students
From targeted writing prompts that get pencils moving to an interactive radio show where students join as the co-host, these AI classroom activities help students take learning to the next level. - Brain-Based Learning
7 Retrieval Activities That Help Learning Stick
These low-pressure, brain-based learning strategies help students retrieve what they know, building confidence and motivation.
- Assessment
‘Proficiency Days’ Are a Great Way to End the School Year
Instead of the end-of-year rush to turn in missing assignments, this district set up a meaningful way to ensure that high school students met standards. - Assessment
Tyler Rablin on Ditching Old Assessment Systems to Build Student Motivation
Frustrated by the narrow lens of traditional grading, this instructional coach and former English teacher redesigned his grade book to encourage authentic student buy-in. - Assessment
6 Ways Data Can Guide Learning
When educators use data effectively, it can lead to improvements in students’ learning and well-being.263Your content has been saved!
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6 Ways to Upgrade Old-School Book Reports
These creative alternatives to book reports can spark imaginations, boost comprehension, and reignite a love for reading. - Assessment
4 Test-Taking Strategies That Help Students Show What They Know
By teaching students to approach test questions critically, you can help them accurately show what they've learned and avoid picking wrong answer choices.
- Literacy
Building Foundational Writing Skills in Early Childhood Classrooms
These strategies help preschool and kindergarten students develop letter recognition, spatial awareness, and fine motor skills. - Literacy
Aligning Writing Instruction With Cognitive Science
Making writing less difficult for students helps them to become both better writers and also more engaged learners. - Teacher Collaboration
Interdisciplinary Teaching With Historical Journals
Middle school teachers can collaborate to develop an engaging project that gives students the opportunity to tap into their creativity. - Literacy
The Wide-Ranging Positives of Read-Alouds
Teachers can use these strategies to entertain and engage early learners with reading and foster social and emotional skills. - Literacy
Reimagining the Classic American Dream Unit
How high school teachers across America are updating this foundational unit, 100 years after ‘Gatsby.’
- Administration & Leadership
Onboarding New Teachers So They Want to Stay
With these tips, administrators can welcome new teachers to the school and help them feel at home right away.267Your content has been saved!
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Why This Middle School Principal Memorizes Her Students’ Names
A school leader describes the impact that a personal touch can have on school culture. - Administration & Leadership
6 Key Questions to Ask Before Buying New Tech
School leaders can use these criteria to ensure that an edtech purchase will meet their school’s particular needs.150Your content has been saved!
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How Principals Can Lead Successful Staff Mediations
A school leader walks through his three-step strategy for bringing disgruntled staffers together and defusing tensions.260Your content has been saved!
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3 Questions That Can Transform School Culture
Asking these questions can help ensure a more collaborative and inclusive school leadership.402Your content has been saved!
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