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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The Research Is In
A Case for Finger Counting
New research suggests that young children may make gains in math by counting with their fingers.
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Project-Based Learning
Partnership Strategies for Real-World Projects
Students gain by taking on interdisciplinary projects with community nonprofits, businesses, and government agencies.
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Character Education
Rejecting the ‘Mean Girl’ Framework
Ideas for guiding girls toward positive interactions with each other.
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Readers Weigh In
6 PD Reads You Shouldn’t Miss
We asked about the professional development books you’d recommend to your teacher friends. Here are the six that stood...
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Communication Skills
Learning to Hook an Audience
The author’s fifth-grade students practiced a variety of skills in order to make 25-minute verbal and visual presentations on their inquiry-based projects.
Literacy
Social Media Posts as Exemplars
Text messages and Instagram captions can be valuable samples for teaching tone, writing conventions, and levels of formality.
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Letting Students Succeed as Themselves
An American teacher shares a lesson learned during time he spent in New Zealand schools.
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Parent Partnership
Helping Students With Autism Transition Into a New School Year
Parents and teachers can minimize the stress with some joint prep before school starts.
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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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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, presentations, screencasting, assessment, and more.
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Teaching Strategies
Smart Strategies for Student Success
Five techniques you can use with students in any class to help boost their long-term learning outcomes.
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Character Education
Rejecting the ‘Mean Girl’ Framework
Ideas for guiding girls toward positive interactions with each other.
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Readers Weigh In
6 PD Reads You Shouldn’t Miss
We asked about the professional development books you’d recommend to your teacher friends. Here are the six that stood out.
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Featured Item
Social and Emotional Learning
Justice Committee: Using Restorative Practices to Resolve Conflicts
Students at Pittsfield Middle High School are trained to mediate conflicts between their fellow students—and between students and teachers.
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Differentiated Instruction
A Reading List for Differentiated Instruction
You can find ideas on how to gear your teaching to meet the needs of all students even in works that aren’t explicitly about differentiation.
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Differentiated Instruction
Teaching a Class With Big Ability Differences
Techniques for meeting the needs of students with diverse abilities and interests.
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Differentiated Instruction
A Little Help With Your Homework
How to guide your students to self-differentiate their homework—without creating more work for yourself.
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Learning Environments
The Optimal Seating Plan? Letting Your Students Choose
Allowing students to move the furniture can help you differentiate instruction and give your students more agency in...
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Assessment
Competency-Based Learning: Developing Mastery of Skills and Content
At Pittsfield Middle High School, students choose how they will show what they have learned.
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Brain-Based Learning
Brain-Based Strategies to Reduce Test Stress
A neurologist shares ideas for beating stress before and during test time.
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Student Engagement
Sharing the Depth of Knowledge Wheel With Students
Many teachers use Norman Webb’s framework in developing assignments, but it can also be shared with students to help...
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Standardized Testing
Test Prep Doesn’t Have to Be Overwhelming
Help your students use technology and build their confidence—and teach them to speak the tests’ language.
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