School Leadership
The Graduate Profile: A Focus on Outcomes
These profiles help schools direct resources toward building student competencies. See how they work.
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Creativity
A Powerful Way to End the School Year
Year mapping allows students to see what they’ve learned in your class, and it’s a great resource for your incoming class.
Education Equity
Can Equity Be Taught?
In a rapidly diversifying district with a largely white teaching force, how do you foster mutual trust and...
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Readers Weigh In
Tips for Tackling Timed Tests and Math Anxiety
You can’t make timed tests go away, but you can help make the stress more manageable for students.
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Curriculum Planning
5 Highly Effective Teaching Practices
Check out these researched-based, best teaching practices and share with us the ways you already use them in your...
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Technology Integration
Drones Can Be Fun—and Educational
Check out a variety of ways schools might use drones as a teaching tool.
Project-Based Learning
PBL and STEAM Education: A Natural Fit
Using project-based learning in science, technology, engineering, art, and math classes is a way to solve problems in real-world contexts.
Creativity
A Powerful Way to End the School Year
Year mapping allows students to see what they’ve learned in your class, and it’s a great resource for your incoming class.
Social and Emotional Learning
Supporting Kids Through Times of Change
Ten ways to help children cope with tough transitions in school—whether you’re their teacher or their parent.
Teacher Collaboration
Want to Improve a District? Let Teachers Lead the Way
A Connecticut superintendent put teachers and students at the forefront of all decisions and transformed a district.
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Trading Places
Birmingham Covington: Building a Student-Centered School
Educators take on the role of guides and motivate students to direct their own learning.
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Learning Environments
The Sensory Room: Helping Students With Autism Focus and Learn
Imagine a safe space where students with autism can go to calm their bodies and then get back to the business of learning.
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Social and Emotional Learning
13 Powerful SEL Activities
Build social and emotional skills into any class.
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Special Series
Popular
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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Formative Assessment
Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools
Checking for understanding is good for both students and teachers. We’ve rounded up a variety of digital tools to help you do it.
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Professional Development
Travel Grants and Fellowships for Educators
Money is available to help fund teachers’ professional trips. Here are some resources to help you find and apply for grants and fellowships.
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Teacher Appreciation
6 Traits of Life-Changing Teachers
We asked our community what makes teachers unforgettable. Here’s what they said.
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Bullying Prevention
How to Respond When Students Use Hate Speech
Some activities for creating a healthy classroom culture.
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Featured Item
The Research Is In
How Peer Pressure Undermines Success
Will students pass up academic help based on how their friends feel? A new study suggests they will.
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Professional Development
Travel Grants and Fellowships for Educators
Money is available to help fund teachers’ professional trips. Here are some resources to help you find and apply for grants and fellowships.
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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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Professional Development
A Focus on Self-Improvement
Five principles of deliberate practice can help teachers consistently improve their teaching.
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Professional Development
Deeper Learning—for Teachers
We can harness the engagement our students find in project-based learning in our own professional development.
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Brain-Based Learning
Brain-Based Strategies to Reduce Test Stress
A neurologist shares ideas for beating stress before and during test time.
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Student Engagement
Sharing the Depth of Knowledge Wheel With Students
Many teachers use Norman Webb’s framework in developing assignments, but it can also be shared with students to help...
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Standardized Testing
Test Prep Doesn’t Have to Be Overwhelming
Help your students use technology and build their confidence—and teach them to speak the tests’ language.
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Assessment
Play as a Test Prep Tool
Use these games built around standardized tests to build engagement and fuel learning.
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