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Critical Thinking

Generating Effective Questions

Four ways to come up with questions that guide students to engage deeply with class content. Plus: a pop quiz for you.
Todd Finley
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Literacy

6 Techniques for Building Reading Skills—in Any Subject

Students need good reading skills not just in English but in all classes. Here are some ways you can help them develop those skills.
Susan Barber
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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.
Rebecca Alber
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Parent Partnership

Parents: 19 Meaningful Questions You Should Ask Your Child's Teacher

Back-to-school content is usually focused on teachers and students, and as these two groups will have the largest...
Terry Heick
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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...
Stephen Merrill
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Classroom Management

How to Remember Students’ Names

Instead of resorting to “Hey, you,” try these techniques for retrieving names.
Todd Finley
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Social and Emotional Learning

An On-Site Advocate for Every Student

An argument for providing every student with a social-emotional and academic liaison.
Maurice J. Elias
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Literacy

The Mechanics of Developing a Writer’s Voice

Help your students develop their own voice in writing by focusing on details, word choice, and sentence fluency.
John McCarthy
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School Leadership

Helping Teachers Thrive

Five ways principals can boost teachers’ resilience in the new year.
Elena Aguilar
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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.
Holly Korbey
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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.
Holly Korbey
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Social and Emotional Learning

13 Powerful SEL Activities

Build social and emotional skills into any class.
Emelina Minero
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Special Series
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The Crisis in Black Education

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The Search for the Perfect Kindergarten

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Differentiating Classroom Instruction

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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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Classroom Management

Rules and Routines in the Classroom

An argument for keeping hard rules to a minimum.
Rebecca Alber
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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.
Stephen Merrill
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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.
Stephen Merrill
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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.
Rebecca Alber
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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.
Heather Wolpert-Gawron
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Classroom Management »
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Classroom Management

How to Remember Students’ Names

Instead of resorting to “Hey, you,” try these techniques for retrieving names.
Todd Finley
Classroom Management

Rules and Routines in the Classroom

An argument for keeping hard rules to a minimum.
Rebecca Alber
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Classroom Management

Making Transitions Work for Students and Teachers

Transitions can be a time to give students agency to meet their own social and emotional needs without being disruptive.
Kristin Stuart Valdes
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Classroom Technology

Digital Tools and Distraction in School

We should be deliberately teaching middle and high school students how to manage their devices.
Mary Beth Hertz
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Technology Integration

Note Taking With Technology

Despite arguments to the contrary, computers can be effective for note taking—if we adequately support students in using them.
Beth Holland
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Apps

10 Free Apps and Tools for Starting Out (and Staying) Organized

Choose from among these options—all free!—to develop a system for staying on top of student work, lesson plans, and...
Monica Burns
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Virtual Reality

Will Virtual Reality Drive Deeper Learning?

As an ever-growing array of virtual reality tools hits schools, educators wonder if the technology lives up to its hype.
Holly Korbey
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Technology Integration

The Epic BYOD Toolbox

We’ve collected dozens of apps and tools for your bring-your-own-device classroom, with options for student writing,...
Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher
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