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Culturally Responsive Teaching
22 Diverse Book Choices for All Grade Levels
Social and Emotional Learning
10 Powerful Community-Building Ideas
Strategies for ensuring that students in every grade feel like they’re part of the classroom community.
Emelina Minero
The Research Is In
Understanding a Teacher’s Long-Term Impact
Fostering skills like self-regulation does more to improve students’ long-term outcomes than helping them raise their test scores.
Youki Terada
Formative Assessment
60-Second Strategy: TAG Feedback
This quick exercise scaffolds peer critique for elementary students.
New Teachers
The Biggest Lesson of My First Year Teaching
A veteran teacher shares how she learned the value of prioritizing relationships when she was just starting out in the classroom.
Cindy Bourdo
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Culturally Responsive Teaching
When Girls Spit: The Power of Spoken Word
Encouraging young women of color to express their experiences creatively through spoken word can empower them.
Dorothy E. Hines
Culturally Responsive Teaching
22 Diverse Book Choices for All Grade Levels
Suggestions from teachers who are working to offer students at every grade level book choices that represent their lives.
Tom Berger
Teaching Strategies
Ramping Up Student Performance
Techniques for introducing new material and feedback to students throughout a lesson—a way to spark deeper insights and learning.
Mark Wise
Character Education
Guiding Students to Question Prejudices
Connecting the novel The Outsiders to an anti-bias framework helps middle school students examine their biases.
Lissa Downey
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Teaching Strategies
Inviting Participation With Thumbs-Up Responses
A quick assessment strategy replaces raised hands, encouraging more students to contribute by accommodating their different processing needs.
Social and Emotional Learning
Cultivating Trust With One-on-One Time
For many struggling students, consistently spending informal time with a trusted educator supports emotional well-being and academic growth.
Collaborative Learning
60 Second-Strategy: Cooperative Learning Roles
Giving students randomly assigned roles in their group work helps ensure that they all participate.
Brain-Based Learning
What's Metacognition—and Why Does it Matter?
A quick introduction to metacognition, plus seven questions to help your students become more independent learners.
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Brain-Based Learning
Decoding the Teenage Brain (in 3 Charts)
New technologies are shedding light on what really makes adolescents tick—and providing clues on how we might reach them better.
Stephen Merrill
Student Engagement
7 Ways to Spark Engagement
Strengthening students’ sense of connectedness to their learning is a worthwhile goal, and there are some simple ways to do it.
Cheryl Abla
Social and Emotional Learning
10 Powerful Community-Building Ideas
Strategies for ensuring that students in every grade feel like they’re part of the classroom community.
Emelina Minero
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Locked Away: The Toll of Mass Incarceration on Students
Children with imprisoned siblings or parents often suffer silently, but schools can help students confront the stigma and trauma.
Melinda D. Anderson
The Research Is In
Understanding a Teacher’s Long-Term Impact
Fostering skills like self-regulation does more to improve students’ long-term outcomes than helping them raise their test scores.
Youki Terada
Brain-Based Learning
Decoding the Teenage Brain (in 3 Charts)
Stephen Merrill
Project-Based Learning »
Project-Based Learning
Collaborating on Project-Based Learning
A school-based professional learning community (PLC) is well structured to enhance all aspects of project-based learning.
Andrew Miller
Inquiry-Based Learning
Inquiry-Based Tasks in Social Studies
Assignments that are bigger than a lesson and smaller than a unit are a good way to experiment with inquiry-based learning.
Andrew Miller
Project-Based Learning
A PBL Unit With Lessons for Teachers
A project-based learning unit that left students feeling unenthusiastic had valuable lessons for the teachers who prepared it.
Emily Murphy
Project-Based Learning
Project-Based Learning and the Research Paper
Students take responsibility for their learning and develop solutions for complex problems when their research paper becomes a PBL unit.
Brandie Provenzano
Comprehensive Assessment »
Teaching Strategies
Ramping Up Student Performance
Techniques for introducing new material and feedback to students throughout a lesson—a way to spark deeper insights and learning.
Mark Wise
Assessment
Using Art in Assessments
An assessment called a one-pager has students use art to show what they know—and it can be used across the curriculum.
Jill Fletcher
Formative Assessment
60-Second Strategy: TAG Feedback
This quick exercise scaffolds peer critique for elementary students.
The Research Is In
5 Tips for Designing Multiple-Choice Quizzes
A researcher explains how to align your test design with the latest brain science.
Youki Terada
Teacher Development »
Teacher Development
What’s Your Teacher Reputation?
Finding out how students and colleagues perceive you is the first step to presenting your ideal self.
Ben Johnson
Professional Development
The Importance of Choice in PD
Providing effective, impactful, differentiated professional development is vital to the well-being of the teaching profession.
Heather Wolpert-Gawron
Teacher Development
How to Hone Your Interpersonal Skills
Four strategies to help you reflect on your interpersonal skills as a way to build a stronger school community.
Elena Aguilar
New Teachers
Getting Your To-Do List Under Control
Building routines around recurring tasks can help new teachers save effort and focus on what really matters.
Marissa King
