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Representing Student Proficiency and Progress With Visual Rubrics
By creating a visual representation of students’ performance, teachers can help them make sense of their skills and areas for growth.106Your content has been saved!
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How to Incorporate Student Feedback to Improve SEL
Meaningful input and active engagement from high school students can transform a school’s approach to social and emotional learning.104Your content has been saved!
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Helping School Leaders Embrace a Peer Coaching Plan
Administrators get a lot of benefit from taking time to reflect together, exchange strategies, and support one another.125Your content has been saved!
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How Celebrating Academic Progress Builds Motivation
When teachers acknowledge the learning journey, they help students gain confidence and develop ownership over their growth—and build a culture of support in the classroom.Your content has been saved!
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Tracking Growth as a Teacher With a Journal
Adding notes and sketches in a reflection journal can be an enjoyable way to process information and record observations. - Formative Assessment
Empowering Students Through Effective Feedback
These strategies, including peer-to-peer feedback, can help ensure that elementary students understand and can act on the feedback.114Your content has been saved!
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Question: How Do You Quickly Quiet a High School Class?
We’re looking for creative ways to regain student attention. Share your tips, and read what others have contributed. - Differentiated Instruction
How to Implement UDL in Kindergarten
Teachers can take a practical approach to Universal Design for Learning to ensure that their students’ diverse needs are met.133Your content has been saved!
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Creating Authentic Learning Experiences in Early Childhood Classrooms
Bringing in outside experts and doing fieldwork can make project-based learning an invaluable experience for young learners.137Your content has been saved!
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4 Strategies to Help Paraprofessionals Feel Supported and Included
With targeted training for paraprofessionals, administrators can set their schools up to successfully support students in special education.120Your content has been saved!
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3 Ways to Help Students Overcome the Forgetting Curve
Our brains are wired to forget things unless we take active steps to remember. Here’s how you can help students hold on to what they learn. - Classroom Management
When the Teacher-Student Relationship Breaks Down
These strategies will help teachers reset boundaries and repair relationships if classroom dynamics have become dysfunctional. - Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Using a Learning Map to Build Exemplary PBL Units
By developing—and revisiting—an instructional roadmap that connects standards, activities, and skill development, these teachers put students on a path toward mastery. - Technology Integration
3 ChatGPT Features Worthy of a Teacher’s Attention
An edtech expert shares how the popular AI tool can help you save time while increasing your impact. - Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Using AI Tools to Support Project-Based Learning
Teachers can use an artificial intelligence framework when developing projects to provide well-rounded learning experiences.
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Combining Science and Music for Deeper Learning
Elementary music teachers can incorporate scientific concepts into lessons so students get a multilayered learning experience. - Integrated Studies
A Hands-On Approach to Interdisciplinary Learning
By integrating multiple subjects in a cohesive project, teachers can empower students to think flexibly and persist through challenges. - Project-Based Learning (PBL)
7 Projects Teachers Stand By
Planning for projects can be difficult and time-consuming. This list of teacher-tested projects—complete with printable resources—should offer a big head start. - Integrated Studies
Celebrating Pi Day Across the Curriculum
Engaging, informative Pi Day activities designed for middle school math, ELA, science, and social studies. - Integrated Studies
Integrating Math Into Elementary PE
Teachers can work together to reveal the ways that math concepts are already present in PE activities.
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Professional Development for School Leaders
By regularly scheduling time for mentorship and professional learning opportunities, administrators can avoid feeling isolated in their roles.347Your content has been saved!
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Ask Me Anything: Write for Us
Edutopia is hosting an Ask Me Anything (AMA) about how to write for us! The panelists share their experiences, as well as their strategies for getting published. - Instructional Coaching
Using Peer-to-Peer Observations to Support New Teachers
Instructional coaches can support novice teachers by facilitating a meaningful process of peer feedback.310Your content has been saved!
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Question: What Have You Learned From Your Students?
Students aren’t the only ones doing the learning. What lessons have they taught you this year? - New Teachers
How New Teachers Can Encourage Student Agency
When students get stuck on a concept, a compassionate approach that supports productive struggle might help them proceed.268Your content has been saved!
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Using Values-Alignment Messaging to Teach Healthy Digital Habits
Thoughtful phone policies are helpful, but teens need more than rules, and schools can help them build digital self-agency.215Your content has been saved!
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Why This Middle School Principal Memorizes Her Students’ Names
A school leader describes the impact that a personal touch can have on school culture. - Environmental Education
How a School Turns Nature Into the Ultimate Classroom
From interdisciplinary projects to wilderness expeditions, The Greene School is an innovative model for nurturing academic success and student agency. - School Culture
Innovative Ways to Acclimate New Students to Your School
Starting middle and high school is hard—but schools can do a lot to smooth the transition and build belonging from day one. - Student Wellness
3 Ways to Help Students Build Attention Stamina
These simple tools and strategies can improve focus in the classroom.
