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Assessment
Integrated Studies
Project-Based Learning
Social and Emotional Learning
Teacher Development
Technology Integration
ALL TOPICS
Brain-Based Learning
Unraveling the Myths Around Reading and Dyslexia
School Leadership
Portrait of a Turnaround Principal
What does it take to turn a low-performing school around? A principal finds success by focusing on both love and high expectations.
Bekah McNeel
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
Blended Learning
60-Second Strategy: Do Now Sheets
A quick pen-and-paper warm-up activity helps teachers see that students are on track in a self-paced blended learning classroom.
Teacher Collaboration
Personalized Professional Development
Lesson study helps teachers improve by focusing on collaboratively planning and revising a single lesson.
Adrienne Baytops Paul
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Professional Development
Tapping Into the Expertise in the Building
The triad model of peer coaching takes advantage of a powerful professional learning resource available to teachers—their colleagues.
Kristin Rouleau
Curriculum Planning
A Gender Equity Elective in Elementary School
A class on gender equity built around the film ‘Girl Rising’ inspires fifth-grade girls and boys to share their learning with their whole school.
Dorothy Venditto
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
The Research Is In
50 Years of Children Drawing Scientists
When girls don’t see women as scientists, they may not see their future selves as scientists, either—but teachers can make a difference.
Youki Terada
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Design Thinking
Design Thinking: A Problem Solving Framework
Students learn to empathize with others around the globe while solving real-world problems.
School Leadership
A Public School Transitions to Montessori
In rural South Carolina, a Title I school makes the leap to become a Montessori school.
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.
The Research Is In
The Powerful Effects of Drawing on Learning
The science is clear: Drawing beats out reading and writing to help students remember concepts.
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Formative Assessment
7 Smart, Fast Ways to Do Formative Assessment
Within these methods you’ll find close to 40 tools and tricks for finding out what your students know while they’re still learning.
Laura Thomas
School Leadership
Portrait of a Turnaround Principal
What does it take to turn a low-performing school around? A principal finds success by focusing on both love and high expectations.
Bekah McNeel
The Research Is In
The Powerful Effects of Drawing on Learning
The science is clear: Drawing beats out reading and writing to help students remember concepts.
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
Brain-Based Learning
Unraveling the Myths Around Reading and Dyslexia
Teachers are seeking new training to understand the brain science around dyslexia, the most commonly reported disability among children.
Holly Korbey
Culturally Responsive Teaching
A Look at Implicit Bias and Microaggressions
Todd Finley
Project-Based Learning »
Project-Based Learning
What to Do When a Project Fails
When project-based learning doesn’t work out as planned, students can still master content—and teachers can learn something too.
Mike Kaechele
Teaching Strategies
Getting Started With Experiential Learning
Learning by doing—through project-based learning or role plays based on the news, for example—can boost student engagement.
Taylor Hausburg
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Sarah Gudenkauf
Project-Based Learning
Guiding Students to Apply What They Learn
A state Teacher of the Year used project-based learning to push her students to think critically and apply their learning in math.
Emma Chiappetta
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
Teaching Strategies »
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
Student Engagement
4 Ways to Get Students Moving in Class
Build students’ sense of engagement by incorporating activities that get them out of their seats to work with course content.
Angelina Murphy
Teaching Strategies
Ensuring That Instruction Is Inclusive for Diverse Learners
Using ideas from Universal Design for Learning with all students can make classrooms more welcoming for those with learning disabilities.
Nina Parrish
Teaching Strategies
Using Inaccurate Films to Understand History
Hollywood can portray historical events with mistakes or omissions, but critical analysis turns these moments into teaching tools.
Benjamin Barbour
Diversity »
English-Language Learners
The Dual Immersion Solution
Instead of seeing English language learners as a costly challenge, districts are increasingly recognizing the assets they bring to their schools.
Conor P. Williams
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Creating a Diverse Classroom Library
An interaction with a student prompts an elementary teacher to revamp her classroom library to make it more inclusive.
Meredith Kimi Lewis
Education Equity
3 Promising Models of School Integration
With racial integration facing legal challenges, school districts are finding new ways to create more diverse schools that reflect their communities.
Carly Berwick
Diversity
Passport to Tolerance
Exploring and celebrating the different cultures that make up America is a great way to make schools safe and welcoming for all.
Don Vu
