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How Burned Out Are You? A Scale For Teachers
A four-stage framework can help teachers understand the burnout process—and what they can do to protect their well-being and career.103 - Formative Assessment
5 Review Activities That Kids Actually Like
Content review doesn’t need to be boring—here’s how to liven it up and make the information stick. - Blended Learning
Education Buzzwords Defined: What Is Blended Learning?
See how blended learning—a combination of online activities and face-to-face teaching—helps teachers differentiate instruction and spend more time with students. - The Research Is in
What Fact-Checkers Know About Media Literacy—and Students Should, Too
Professional fact-checkers use a strategy that’s at odds with how we usually teach information literacy. Here’s how to pass it on to your students. - Culturally Responsive Teaching
Using Inquiry-Based Learning to Create a Culturally Responsive Classroom
Teachers can use inquiry to guide students to engage in learning activities that are personally and culturally relevant to them. - Project-Based Learning (PBL)
How A Teacher Turned His Classroom into a High Functioning Non-Profit
This powerful PBL unit turned a ninth-grade classroom into a non-profit—complete with an accounting division, a full-fledged marketing team, and a well-attended fundraising event.102 - Special Education
4 Ways to Guide Students With Disabilities to Success After High School
Strong relationships with teachers combined with early postsecondary planning can improve disabled students’ college and career outcomes. - Student Engagement
A Simple Strategy to Encourage Student Reflection and Improvement
Middle school teachers can guide students to analyze a learning experience by asking about what went well and what could be improved.103 - Administration & Leadership
4 Tips for School Leaders Starting DEI Work
School leaders should take an active role and set attainable goals to ensure that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are successful.
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Bringing Identity Work to Project-Based Learning
As they emerged from the difficulties of the past few years, these students combined humanities, STEM, and the arts in a project that celebrated their identities as individuals and as a community.318 - early childhood education
Bringing Project-Based Learning to Preschool
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Students can use an old ELA tactic—word sorts—to understand how different math concepts are related, allowing them to decode increasingly complex problems.585 - Maker Education
Fostering Inclusion With a Student-Designed Sensory Path
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A personally and socially relevant project ties what middle school students study in science class to developments in the world around them.539 - STEM
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5 Review Activities That Kids Actually Like
Content review doesn’t need to be boring—here’s how to liven it up and make the information stick. - Brain-Based Learning
Teaching Students to Assess Their Learning
Teachers can help students evaluate their knowledge and learning processes by guiding them to assess their use of metacognitive skills.250 - Formative Assessment
Using Frequent Feedback Cycles to Guide Student Work
When students complete several drafts of a project and get feedback each time, they achieve better results.278 - Formative Assessment
Bump-It-Up Walls Make Learning Progress Visible
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