Critical Thinking
Generating Effective Questions
Four ways to come up with questions that guide students to engage deeply with class content. Plus: a pop quiz for you.
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Literacy
6 Techniques for Building Reading Skills—in Any Subject
Students need good reading skills not just in English but in all classes. Here are some ways you can help them develop those skills.
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Back to School
Relationships Matter More Than Rules
Community building in the classroom starts on day one. Try these strategies to begin forging strong relationships.
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Parent Partnership
Parents: 19 Meaningful Questions You Should Ask Your Child's Teacher
Back-to-school content is usually focused on teachers and students, and as these two groups will have the largest...
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Readers Weigh In
7 Outstanding K–8 Flexible Classrooms
K–8 educators from across the country give you a peek at their classrooms—and explain how they managed the...
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Community Partnerships
The Big List of Educational Grants and Resources
Get a roundup of educational grants, contests, awards, free toolkits, and classroom guides aimed at helping students, classrooms, schools, and communities. Check this page weekly to get the latest updates!
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Parent Partnership
Improving Your Parent-Outreach Strategy
Use these communication tools to keep parents in the loop, reduce your workload, and boost student engagement.
Classroom Management
How to Remember Students’ Names
Instead of resorting to “Hey, you,” try these techniques for retrieving names.
Social and Emotional Learning
An On-Site Advocate for Every Student
An argument for providing every student with a social-emotional and academic liaison.
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Teacher Collaboration
Want to Improve a District? Let Teachers Lead the Way
A Connecticut superintendent put teachers and students at the forefront of all decisions and transformed a district.
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Learning Environments
The Sensory Room: Helping Students With Autism Focus and Learn
Imagine a safe space where students with autism can go to calm their bodies and then get back to the business of learning.
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Trading Places
Birmingham Covington: Building a Student-Centered School
Educators take on the role of guides and motivate students to direct their own learning.
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Social and Emotional Learning
13 Powerful SEL Activities
Build social and emotional skills into any class.
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Special Series
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Community Partnerships
The Big List of Educational Grants and Resources
Get a roundup of educational grants, contests, awards, free toolkits, and classroom guides aimed at helping students, classrooms, schools, and communities. Check this page weekly to get the latest updates!
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Classroom Management
Rules and Routines in the Classroom
An argument for keeping hard rules to a minimum.
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Readers Weigh In
7 Outstanding K–8 Flexible Classrooms
K–8 educators from across the country give you a peek at their classrooms—and explain how they managed the transformations.
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Readers Weigh In
High School Flexible Seating Done Right
Interested in switching to flexible seating? Get funding ideas, helpful tips, and how-to photos from the pros—your fellow high school teachers.
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Back to School
Relationships Matter More Than Rules
Community building in the classroom starts on day one. Try these strategies to begin forging strong relationships.
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Parent Partnership
Improving Your Parent-Outreach Strategy
Use these communication tools to keep parents in the loop, reduce your workload, and boost student engagement.
Classroom Management
How to Remember Students’ Names
Instead of resorting to “Hey, you,” try these techniques for retrieving names.
Classroom Management
Rules and Routines in the Classroom
An argument for keeping hard rules to a minimum.
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Classroom Management
Making Transitions Work for Students and Teachers
Transitions can be a time to give students agency to meet their own social and emotional needs without being disruptive.
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Classroom Technology
Digital Tools and Distraction in School
We should be deliberately teaching middle and high school students how to manage their devices.
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Technology Integration
Note Taking With Technology
Despite arguments to the contrary, computers can be effective for note taking—if we adequately support students in using them.
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Apps
10 Free Apps and Tools for Starting Out (and Staying) Organized
Choose from among these options—all free!—to develop a system for staying on top of student work, lesson plans, and...
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Virtual Reality
Will Virtual Reality Drive Deeper Learning?
As an ever-growing array of virtual reality tools hits schools, educators wonder if the technology lives up to its hype.
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Technology Integration
The Epic BYOD Toolbox
We’ve collected dozens of apps and tools for your bring-your-own-device classroom, with options for student writing,...
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