Project-Based Learning
Helping Students Become Engaged Citizens
Project ideas to help your students realize the impact they can have on their community and beyond.
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Autism
The Missing Autistic Girls
In the past two decades, autism diagnoses have soared—but new research shows that girls have frequently been overlooked, leaving them without crucial support.
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Formative Assessment
5 Classroom Tools to Measure Student Learning
Formative assessment is a snap with games and other tools that let you see how students answer questions and review...
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Teaching Strategies
The Brain Is Wired for Math—Sort Of
Symbolic math can be hard to grasp, so we have tips to help you build on the natural math sense your kids already have.
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School Leadership
The ‘No’ in ‘Innovate’
Selecting new initiatives is important for administrators and teachers—but so is refusing to take on too much.
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New Teachers
New Teachers: Fundamentals of Classroom Management
Resources for developing routines, fostering classroom community, managing disruptions, and building student relationships.
Project-Based Learning
A Starter’s Guide to PBL Fieldwork
Five tips to help you get started with taking students out for fieldwork—a powerful component of project-based learning.
Classroom Management
11 Research-Based Classroom Management Strategies
Discover kernels—simple, quick, and reliable ways to deal with behavior challenges.
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Education Equity
Honoring the Innocence of Black Girls
A teacher reconsiders one of his students in light of recent findings on how adults perceive black girls.
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Professional Development
Teacher Labs: Making Professional Development Collaborative
Watch the magic that happens when educators observe each other teaching and then reflect together.
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Technology Integration
Tech Buddies: Building Technology Skills Through Peer Teaching
See the learning on both sides when fifth graders teach computer skills to first graders.
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Communication Skills
Oracy in the Classroom: Strategies for Effective Talk
School 21 develops confident students who can articulate their thoughts and learning with strategies like discussion guidelines and roles and structured talk tasks.
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Critical Thinking
Solving Real-World Issues Through Problem-Based Learning
The perfect problem connects content, student interest, and an authentic context.
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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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Learning Environments
8 Tips and Tricks to Redesign Your Classroom
A classroom designer walks you through the process of redesigning your room, with videos to inspire you.
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New Teachers
New Teachers: Fundamentals of Classroom Management
Resources for developing routines, fostering classroom community, managing disruptions, and building student relationships.
Autism
The Missing Autistic Girls
In the past two decades, autism diagnoses have soared—but new research shows that girls have frequently been overlooked, leaving them without crucial support.
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Classroom Management
Responding to Disruptive Students
Negative attention doesn’t help difficult students change their ways, but teachers can alter classroom dynamics through this exercise.
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New Teachers
New Teachers: Fundamentals of Classroom Management
Resources for developing routines, fostering classroom community, managing disruptions, and building student relationships.
Teaching Strategies
The Brain Is Wired for Math—Sort Of
Symbolic math can be hard to grasp, so we have tips to help you build on the natural math sense your kids already have.
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Teaching Strategies
This Is What Math Looks Like
Whether they’re in kindergarten or calculus, students can use simulations to see the math.
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Teaching Strategies
The Power of Visualization in Math
Creating visual representations for math students can open up understanding. We have resources you can use in class...
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Lesson Plans
A Math Framework for Multiple Grade Levels
Using simple images, the Splat! lessons teach a range of math concepts at different levels of difficulty. Download 50...
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New Teachers
A Phone Call Home Makes All the Difference
You don’t have to reserve phone calls to parents for bad news. Try these tips to deepen communication and trust with families.
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Classroom Management
Rules and Routines in the Classroom
An argument for keeping hard rules to a minimum.
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Inquiry-Based Learning
Playful Inquiry for Elementary Students
Six suggestions for bringing a key idea from a Reggio Emilia–inspired school to your K–5 classroom.
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Back to School
Building Trust With Parents
Suggestions for how to make back-to-school night a hit for you and your students’ parents.
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