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Literacy

Build Empathy and Understanding by Pairing Comics With Novels

Character Education
The Benefits of Teaching Ethical Dilemmas
Teaching ethics can not only help students become better decision-makers, but it can also help develop crucial academic and social and emotional competencies.
Laura Lee

Brain-Based Learning
Study Strategies Beyond Memorization
Using a metacognitive exercise helps students know what they should and shouldn’t study.
Kasey Short
Communication Skills
60-Second Strategy: SLANT Listening
A simple strategy encourages students to give their full attention when listening to others.
Media Literacy
Teaching Students How to Use Wikipedia Wisely
Understanding how the online encyclopedia functions helps students learn how to conduct research and distinguish fact from fiction.
Benjamin Barbour

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Teacher Wellness
Teaching Your Heart Out: Emotional Labor and the Need for Systemic Change
Love for their students is what drives many teachers—but it’s also what makes the profession really, really hard.
Emily Kaplan
Social and Emotional Learning
60-Second Strategy: Pom-Pom Jar
Explicitly teaching and celebrating kindness is a simple yet powerful way to build a positive classroom culture.
Education Trends
Collaboration in Personalized Learning
Vermont educators are working on models of personalized learning that are built around relationships and connected to community needs.
Katy Farber, Penny Bishop
Character Education
The Benefits of Teaching Ethical Dilemmas
Teaching ethics can not only help students become better decision-makers, but it can also help develop crucial academic and social and emotional competencies.
Laura Lee

Listening to Students Is a Key to Finding Their Purpose

Laura Lee

Integrated Studies »

Curriculum Planning
Creating a Student-Run Museum in Your Classroom
Letting students establish a museum exhibit with everyday items offers an opportunity to sharpen their storytelling skills.
Laura Lee
Integrated Studies
CSI Verona: Science and Literature Combine
Bringing together Shakespeare and forensics, or Icarus and design thinking, shows how literature and science can illuminate each other.
Amy Schwartzbach-Kang, Edward Kang
Literacy
How a Literacy-First Program Revived a School
A Title I school in the Bronx is dramatically improving student outcomes—one book at a time.
Carly Berwick
Integrated Studies
Learning Math by Seeing It as a Story
An English teacher co-teaching trigonometry asked students to explain an equation to a child and to turn discrete problems into a story.
Amy Schwartzbach-Kang

Collaborative Learning »

Collaborative Learning
How-To: The Jigsaw Method, Revisited
An excellent video on an older, cooperative learning strategy that researchers say remains highly effective.
Stephen Merrill
Literacy
More Than Highlighting: Creative Annotations
Active strategies for annotation like collaborative work and illustration increase students’ comprehension and retention.
Lauren Gehr
Collaborative Learning
Group Work That Works
Educators weigh in on solutions to the common pitfalls of group work.
Emelina Minero
Communication Skills
Encouraging Academic Conversations With Talk Moves
Sentence starters that students use to join a class discussion encourage both academic thinking and social connectedness.

World Languages »

World Languages
Station Rotation in World Language Classes
Setting up activities around the classroom is a popular way to get students collaborating—and it can be used to promote use of a target language.
Elena Spathis
Student Engagement
More Talking in World Language Classes
Fostering an environment where it’s OK to make mistakes is step one in getting students to speak a new language.
Elena Spathis
Lesson Plans
Using Twitter in World Language Classes
Three ways to use tweets to introduce students to real uses of language in a context they’re likely already familiar with.
Anxo Otero
Literacy
Starting a Heritage Language Book Club
A book club can help students who mainly use English but speak another language at home gain valuable literacy skills in the home language.
Clare Roach, Tim Jacklich

Build Empathy and Understanding by Pairing Comics With Novels

The Benefits of Teaching Ethical Dilemmas

Study Strategies Beyond Memorization

60-Second Strategy: SLANT Listening

Teaching Students How to Use Wikipedia Wisely

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Teaching Your Heart Out: Emotional Labor and the Need for Systemic Change

60-Second Strategy: Pom-Pom Jar

Collaboration in Personalized Learning

The Benefits of Teaching Ethical Dilemmas

60-Second Strategy: Participation Cards

Scaffolding Discussion Skills With a Socratic Circle

Collaborative Reading: Building Successful Readers Together

The Benefits of Learning a Second Language

How to Teach Handwriting—and Why It Matters

6 Summer Reads for Teachers

Curriculum Mapping Tips for New Teachers

Teaching Students How to Ask Productive Questions

The Reading Wars: Choice vs. Canon

Listening to Students Is a Key to Finding Their Purpose

Laura Lee

Creating a Student-Run Museum in Your Classroom

CSI Verona: Science and Literature Combine

How a Literacy-First Program Revived a School

Learning Math by Seeing It as a Story

How-To: The Jigsaw Method, Revisited

More Than Highlighting: Creative Annotations

Group Work That Works

Encouraging Academic Conversations With Talk Moves

Station Rotation in World Language Classes

More Talking in World Language Classes

Using Twitter in World Language Classes

Starting a Heritage Language Book Club

Build Empathy and Understanding by Pairing Comics With Novels

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The Benefits of Teaching Ethical Dilemmas

Study Strategies Beyond Memorization

Listening to Students Is a Key to Finding Their Purpose