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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Readers Weigh In
High School Flexible Seating Done Right
Interested in switching to flexible seating? Get funding ideas, helpful tips, and how-to photos from the pros—your...
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Back to School
Back-to-School Resources for Parents
Find information on easing transition jitters, managing kids’ tech use, getting involved in the school, and more.
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Literacy
Books That Explore the Refugee Experience
These nine books—for students of all grade levels—convey what it’s like to be a refugee.
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Professional Development
Best Education Podcasts 2017
Teachers, psychologists, and authors bring you handy tips and big-picture takes on the state of education in these eight podcasts.
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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Back to School
Relationships Matter More Than Rules
Community building in the classroom starts on day one. Try these strategies to begin forging strong relationships.
Coding in the Classroom
The Impact of Student-Created Apps
Building apps teaches teens far more than just computer skills—they also learn social entrepreneurship and gain self-confidence.
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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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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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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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Social and Emotional Learning
13 Powerful SEL Activities
Build social and emotional skills into any class.
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Special Series
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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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Readers Weigh In
7 Outstanding K–8 Flexible Classrooms
K–8 educators from across the country give you a peek at their classrooms—and explain how they managed the transformations.
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Readers Weigh In
High School Flexible Seating Done Right
Interested in switching to flexible seating? Get funding ideas, helpful tips, and how-to photos from the pros—your fellow high school teachers.
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Literacy
A Skill Strong Readers Share
Metacognition helps readers analyze texts as they read, and it’s a skill you can teach your students.
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The Research Is In
A Surprising Way to Reduce Math Stress
A new study finds that a simple writing exercise can improve students’ math outcomes.
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Character Education
Doorways Into Activism
Books can give children an entry point to taking action in the outside world by providing examples of how to address bullying, bias, and injustice.
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Communication Skills
Learning to Hook an Audience
The author’s fifth-grade students practiced a variety of skills in order to make 25-minute verbal and visual presentations on their inquiry-based projects.
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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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Collaborative Learning
Developing Independent Learners: Guiding Students to Be More Resourceful
When you empower students to be classroom experts, they learn to become resources for each other.
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Communication Skills
Hot-Button Topics, Civil Conversations
Fostering productive discussions on contentious topics.
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Project-Based Learning
Partnership Strategies for Real-World Projects
Students gain by taking on interdisciplinary projects with community nonprofits, businesses, and government agencies.
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Interest-Based Learning
Standards-Aligned Genius Hour
Give your students a chance to follow their own interests with projects that meet state standards.
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Project-Based Learning
Projects That Have Been Put to the Test
A team of researchers created and tested four social studies units that improved achievement among students in high-...
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Project-Based Learning
New Study Shows the Impact of PBL on Student Achievement
Researchers in Michigan show that project-based learning in high-poverty communities can produce statistically...
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