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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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How Learning Happens
Learning Problem Solving and Growth Mindset in a Makerspace
Makerspaces build students’ cognitive abilities while fostering independence, perseverance, and self-regulation.
How Learning Happens
Encouraging Academic Conversations With Talk Moves
Sentence starters that students use to join a class discussion encourage both academic thinking and social connectedness.
How Learning Happens
Scaffolding Discussion Skills With a Socratic Circle
Students deepen their understanding and build a sense of community by engaging with their peers’ reasoned arguments.
Assistive Technology
The Benefits of Ear-Reading
A dyslexia specialist discusses the assistive technologies she uses to help students with dyslexia make gains in reading.
Dana Blackaby
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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
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
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
Technology Integration
Effective Technology Use in Math Class
Ensuring that the technology we bring into math classes fosters active engagement is key.
Gina Picha
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
