- The Research Is in
What Fact-Checkers Know About Accuracy—and Students Should, Too
Professional fact-checkers use a strategy that’s at odds with how we usually teach information literacy. Here’s how to teach your students. - Culturally Responsive Teaching
Using Inquiry-Based Learning to Create a Culturally Responsive Classroom
Teachers can use inquiry to guide students to engage in learning activities that are personally and culturally relevant to them. - Special Education
4 Ways to Guide Students With Disabilities to Success After High School
Strong relationships with teachers combined with early postsecondary planning can improve disabled students’ college and career outcomes. - Blended Learning
Education Buzzwords Defined: What Is Blended Learning?
See how blended learning—a combination of online activities and face-to-face teaching—helps teachers differentiate instruction and spend more time with students. - Student Engagement
A Simple Strategy to Encourage Student Reflection and Improvement
Middle school teachers can guide students to analyze a learning experience by asking about what went well and what could be improved.117 - Administration & Leadership
4 Tips for School Leaders Starting DEI Work
School leaders should take an active role and set attainable goals to ensure that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are successful. - Project-Based Learning (PBL)
To Make the Parts of Speech Engaging, Have Students Do the Teaching
Middle school language arts teachers can create an impactful grammar unit that emphasizes collaboration, research, and presentation skills.107 - Assessment
Self-Paced Learning in Middle School Math
Implementing self-paced learning helped an eighth-grade algebra teacher scaffold and differentiate instruction, creating a student-centered class.137 - Mental Health
Creating Safe Environments for Students Recovering From Trauma
An excerpt from the new book ‘The School of Hope’ looks at how educators can help students who have experienced trauma.133 - Literacy
How to Use 6-Word Memoirs in the Classroom
Activities in which students have six words to collect their thoughts can help build community and get classroom discussions started.191
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How to Get Students Thinking About Their Own Learning
When students begin to plan, monitor, and evaluate their learning, they develop self-regulation and can set more ambitious goals.2.8k - Student Engagement
4 Meaningful Activities to Mark the End of School
Giving middle and high school students a chance to reflect on the past year and look ahead to the next can be very beneficial.1.7k - Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
4 Legged SEL: How to Start a Therapy Dog Program
Elementary schools can boost social and emotional learning with a program that welcomes a canine friend to campus.1.5k - Assessment
A Year of No Tests
Removing summative assessments from instructional practice can make class more interesting, engaging, and stress free for students.1.3k - Communication Skills
Teaching Students How to Have an Academic Discussion
This teacher-created scaffolding tool can elevate classroom dialogue, empowering students to express themselves while learning from the ideas of others.1.2k
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Self-Paced Learning in Middle School Math
Implementing self-paced learning helped an eighth-grade algebra teacher scaffold and differentiate instruction, creating a student-centered class.137 - Assessment
A Year of No Tests
Removing summative assessments from instructional practice can make class more interesting, engaging, and stress free for students.1.3k - Teacher Wellness
Staying Connected to Purpose Beyond Testing Season
Standardized tests are an inevitable part of school life, but education leader Ron Berger wants to remind administrators to keep holding space for the real reason teachers show up: to help kids become great thinkers and human beings.178 - Assessment
Districts Make Progress—and Encounter Resistance—as They Update Grading Models
Even as schools across the country experiment with new models for assessing students, they aren’t ready to commit to a wholesale divorce from the A to F letter grades that have been around since the 1940s.733
- Project-Based Learning (PBL)
To Make the Parts of Speech Engaging, Have Students Do the Teaching
Middle school language arts teachers can create an impactful grammar unit that emphasizes collaboration, research, and presentation skills.107 - Formative Assessment
Bump-It-Up Walls Make Learning Progress Visible
Teachers can use this visual rubric to help elementary students reflect on and evaluate their own learning as they move through the curriculum.478 - New Teachers
Tips for Guiding Students to Use Writing Time Effectively
Thinking like a coach can help new teachers alleviate some of the common struggles students have with writing assignments.326 - Assessment
How to Shift to Self-Grading in English Classes
By articulating clearer expectations about what’s being evaluated, teachers can help students become more fluent in improving and assessing their own work.245
- Mental Health
Creating Safe Environments for Students Recovering From Trauma
An excerpt from the new book ‘The School of Hope’ looks at how educators can help students who have experienced trauma.133 - Mindfulness
A Movement Sequence to Help Students Maintain Self-Regulation
An occupational therapist offers a series of calming whole-body exercises for students to do as a class throughout the school day.902 - Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
Using Art to Help Students Find Their Calm
Simple art activities can help elementary and middle school students express how they’re feeling, which is particularly useful in stressful times.611 - Education Trends
Why Sex Education Isn’t Just About Biology Anymore
We talked to science teachers and health educators across the country to better understand how sex ed has evolved to adapt to our increasingly complex sociopolitical climate.382
