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Culturally Responsive Teaching
Creating a Diverse Classroom Library
Advisory
Making Advisory More Effective
A simple plan for advisory includes self-reflection to help students see their growth over time.
James Bailey
Collaborative Learning
60 Second-Strategy: Cooperative Learning Roles
Giving students randomly assigned roles in their group work helps ensure that they all participate.
Social and Emotional Learning
A Proactive Approach to Discipline
Restorative discipline seeks to create an environment in which problem behavior is less likely to occur.
Marieke van Woerkom
School Leadership
Cultivating a Strong Staff Culture
School and district leaders can build strong relationships among educators by focusing on three factors.
Eric Saibel
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Brain-Based Learning
Helping Students Develop Executive Function Skills
Simple classroom strategies can assist students with deficits in executive function skills like time management and active listening.
Gina DiTullio
School Leadership
Connecting Education Policy to School Culture
A middle school principal draws on lessons learned in policy creation to foster a strong school culture.
Matthew Howell
Assessment
3 Tips for Using Conversations for Assessment
Assessing students doesn’t have to mean giving a test—an interview or informal chat is often a better option.
Andrew Miller
School Leadership
Practicing Community-Based Leadership
Six strategies administrators can use to encourage everyone from students on up to be leaders in their schools and districts.
Kathryn Fishman-Weaver
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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.
Family Engagement
Parent Workshops: Strengthening the Learning Community
During in-school workshops, parents learn what their kids are studying and how to support it at home.
Communication Skills
60-Second Strategy: Discussion Mapping
Following discussions with a quick reflection exercise helps students sharpen their speaking and listening skills.
Social and Emotional Learning
Can SEL Transform School Policing?
In Oakland, a district-wide focus on social and emotional learning has the school police looking at students in a whole new light.
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The Research Is In
Dos and Don’ts of Classroom Decorations
What you put on your classroom walls can affect your students’ ability to learn.
Youki Terada
Multiple Intelligences
Multiple Intelligences Theory: Widely Used, Yet Misunderstood
One of the most popular ideas in education is applied in ways that its creator never intended.
Youki Terada
Learning Environments
A ‘University’ Model for High School
In small-town Wisconsin, four schools cluster on one campus, fostering a culture of experimentation and self-directed learning for both students and teachers.
Nora Fleming
Teaching Strategies
What Does a Million Look Like?
An effort to help third graders visualize large numbers turns into an ambitious project to build a model of a million.
Paul France
Mindfulness
The Value of Silence in Schools
Intentional silence in the school day offers opportunities for deep reflection and learning.
Dana Weeks
Education Equity
Gender Equity in the Classroom
Rebecca Alber
World Languages »
Literacy
Starting a Heritage Language Book Club
A book club can help students who mainly use English but speak another language at home gain valuable literacy skills in the home language.
Clare Roach
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Tim Jacklich
Project-Based Learning
Student-Centered World Language Classrooms
A district has overhauled instruction by focusing on project-based learning and communicative proficiency rather than grammar.
Allyson Williams
Student Engagement
Engaging Novice World Language Learners
Using target language videos, news articles, music, and more can spark engagement even with students who are just getting started.
Elena Spathis
Communication Skills
Socratic Seminars in World Language Classes
Six tips for using the powerful discussion model with students who are still acquiring the target language.
Anxo Otero
Project-Based Learning »
Project-Based Learning
Chickens and Checkbooks
A teacher shares what she and her third graders learned from their first experience with project-based learning—a chicken coop.
Shannon Leonard
Global Education
Humanitarian Engineering in High School
High school students in Alabama design prosthetic devices and tackle other real-world challenges with a village in Honduras.
Suzie Boss
Student Engagement
Generating a Buzz About Learning
Entry events aim to get students curious and excited about a new unit of study right at the outset.
Heather Wolpert-Gawron
Project-Based Learning
How Can We Survive on Mars?
A fifth-grade project-based learning unit harnesses excitement about Mars to develop science, math, engineering, and literacy skills.
Pete Barnes
Math »
Literacy
Reading and Writing in Math Class
Creating a magazine gives students a chance to learn about real-world applications of math.
Alessandra King
Blended Learning
Getting Rid of the Lecture Bottleneck
Getting rid of the lecture in math class means that students can work at their own pace while teachers differentiate instruction.
Kareem Farah
Teaching Strategies
What Does a Million Look Like?
An effort to help third graders visualize large numbers turns into an ambitious project to build a model of a million.
Paul France
Technology Integration
Effective Technology Use in Math Class
Ensuring that the technology we bring into math classes fosters active engagement is key.
Gina Picha
