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Teaching Strategies
How to Prepare Students to Learn by Teaching
Ideas for how to have older students teach younger ones, shared by a teacher at a high school career academy for future teachers.
Elizabeth Aguila

Social and Emotional Learning
Teaching Friendship Skills in Preschool
Young children want friends but don’t always know how to treat them, so promoting heathy ideas about friendship in preschool is key.
Gerard Visco
Education Trends
There’s a Cell Phone in Your Student’s Head
A 2017 study found that cell phones that were turned off and stashed away silently reasserted themselves—distracting working students anyway.
Assessment
A Strategy for Reducing Math Test Anxiety
Letting students discuss a test with peers before they take it can reduce anxiety—and it creates an opportunity to ask deeper questions.
Howie Hua

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Literacy
Driving Deep Reading Comprehension in K–5
This five-phase reading strategy exposes every student to challenging texts—and has dramatically improved reading comprehension at a school in the Bronx.
Emelina Minero
Teaching Strategies
Getting Started With Self-Paced Learning
Giving students some control over the pace of their learning can help them develop self-reliance and better problem-solving skills.
Katherine Rowe
Education Trends
New Research Casts Doubt on the 'Summer Slide'
Under closer scrutiny, the idea of dramatic learning loss over the summer doesn't seem to hold up, according to a recent study.
Youki Terada
Education Equity
A Framework for Educational Equity
An elementary school in Hawai‘i connects national educational goals to indigenous cultural values and practices.
Jill Fletcher

Why Students Forget—and What You Can Do About It

Youki Terada

Literacy »

Literacy
Driving Deep Reading Comprehension in K–5
This five-phase reading strategy exposes every student to challenging texts—and has dramatically improved reading comprehension at a school in the Bronx.
Emelina Minero
Literacy
Critical Literacy in Early Elementary Grades
Using a form of literary criticism in tandem with drama activities helps young students think deeply about how stories are constructed.
Justine Bruyère
Literacy
Reading Aloud to Middle School Students
Hearing books read aloud benefits older students, enhancing language arts instruction and building a community of readers.
Kasey Short
Literacy
A Game-Changing Practice Fuses Math and Literacy
A program that scaffolds math with reading and writing has a formerly struggling elementary school in the Bronx dramatically outperforming the state in math.
Emelina Minero

Technology Integration »

Education Trends
There’s a Cell Phone in Your Student’s Head
A 2017 study found that cell phones that were turned off and stashed away silently reasserted themselves—distracting working students anyway.
Blended Learning
A Student-Centered Model of Blended Learning
When educators at a Washington, DC, high school ditched their lectures and devised a self-paced blended learning model, their students thrived.
Blended Learning
Blended Learning Built on Teacher Expertise
An inside look at a teacher-designed instructional model that combines blended learning, student self-pacing, and mastery-based grading.
Kareem Farah
Literacy
Gaming as a Tool for Narrative Writing
Teachers are leveraging the power of gaming to turn even reluctant student writers into enthusiastic storytellers.
Suzie Boss

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.

6 Steps to Equitable Data Analysis

How to Prepare Students to Learn by Teaching

Teaching Friendship Skills in Preschool

There’s a Cell Phone in Your Student’s Head

A Strategy for Reducing Math Test Anxiety

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Driving Deep Reading Comprehension in K–5

Getting Started With Self-Paced Learning

New Research Casts Doubt on the 'Summer Slide'

A Framework for Educational Equity

Design Thinking: A Problem Solving Framework

A Research-Backed Science Curriculum

The Big Picture: Integrating SEL Across a District

60-Second Strategy: Discussion Mapping

Unraveling the Myths Around Reading and Dyslexia

Using Rubik’s Cubes to Teach Math

A Two-Step Process for Reducing Chronic Absenteeism

Supporting LGBTQ Students in Elementary School

A Strategy for Reducing Math Test Anxiety

Why Students Forget—and What You Can Do About It

Youki Terada

Driving Deep Reading Comprehension in K–5

Critical Literacy in Early Elementary Grades

Reading Aloud to Middle School Students

A Game-Changing Practice Fuses Math and Literacy

There’s a Cell Phone in Your Student’s Head

A Student-Centered Model of Blended Learning

Blended Learning Built on Teacher Expertise

Gaming as a Tool for Narrative Writing

How-To: The Jigsaw Method, Revisited

More Than Highlighting: Creative Annotations

Group Work That Works

Encouraging Academic Conversations With Talk Moves

6 Steps to Equitable Data Analysis

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How to Prepare Students to Learn by Teaching

Teaching Friendship Skills in Preschool

Why Students Forget—and What You Can Do About It