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Adding movement to reading lessons reinforces key concepts and helps fidgety students concentrate.

A look at ways teachers can refine their practices to help ensure that students absorb and process information so they can retrieve it later.

An occupational therapist shares movement breaks and simple tools that help elementary students focus on the written word.

The learning scientist Manu Kapur, architect of the theory of productive failure, on reframing our notion of failure, and letting kids stumble (but with purpose).

With a few shifts in the classroom, teachers can encourage students to pay more attention to the skills they are building than to a number or letter score.

Teachers can take small actions to ensure that the tests they give build students’ confidence, refine skills, and encourage independence.

Learning stories are narratives that demonstrate in images and text the learning process of students in preschool through grade 2.

This innovative assessment tool has students engage in metacognitive reflection by assembling and presenting evidence of their learning.

A strategy for designing classroom competitions that encourage all students to learn from each other as well as from their own trial and error.

Students can use an old ELA tactic—word sorts—to understand how different math concepts are related, allowing them to decode increasingly complex problems.

When kids collaborated on making a sensory path for their school, what started as an occupational therapy zone became a welcoming, playful space that benefited all students.

A personally and socially relevant project ties what middle school students study in science class to developments in the world around them.

Making a habit of these practices can help new teachers avoid burnout and thrive in the classroom during their first year—and beyond.

It won’t be easy, but if you prepare for turbulence and set reasonable goals, you’ll stay calmer and make progress in all the right places.

Adding new resetting and relaxation techniques to coping tool kits now helps ensure that they’re at the ready when teachers need them most.

Positive psychological behaviors promote good mental health hygiene, which reduces stress and improves overall well-being.