- Special Education
Building Students’ Independence and Preparedness for the Future
Instruction on activities of daily living helps middle school students in special education develop important skills like organization, hygiene, and self-advocacy.Your content has been saved!
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Keeping Parents in the Loop With Student-Written Emails
A strategy for guiding high school students to send home regular updates about their assignments and progress in school.Your content has been saved!
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Teaching Students How to Synthesize Using Art and Music
Middle and high school teachers can use these ideas to guide students to engage with and analyze diverse sets of source documents.Your content has been saved!
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Building Routines to Manage Cognitive Load
Creating procedures around daily classroom activities reduces the mental burden for students, leaving more brain space for them to think deeply about content.Your content has been saved!
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Giving Students Practice With Routines Like Gallery Walks to Maximize the Impact
Explicitly modeling common classroom learning tasks helps students focus on your content when you use the tasks throughout the year.Your content has been saved!
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5 Ways to Teach Embodied Phonics
These strategies help connect movements to phonics instruction, giving kids another way to absorb the crucial information.218Your content has been saved!
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6 Simple Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement
When you get students talking, moving, and creating, they’re more likely to actively apply the skills you’ve taught.371Your content has been saved!
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Helping Students Build Productive Academic Habits
Simple instructional shifts can help students learn and practice behaviors that help them more actively engage with content.263Your content has been saved!
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7 Digital Resources for Your Elementary Science Tool Kit
Teachers can use these websites and apps to enhance learning tasks, making them more engaging without adding tons of prep time.209Your content has been saved!
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Research-Backed Strategies to Keep Students on Task
Teachers can help students build their capacity to stay on task by ensuring that they have a clear path to start working, reasons to continue, and support when they lose focus.
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- Learning Environments
An Unconventional Seating Plan Designed to Benefit Focus and Learning
After years of search and experimentation, this teacher finally hit on a room layout that allowed for efficient shifting between whole class, small group, and independent work. - Teaching Strategies
In High-Performing Math Classrooms, Words Matter
Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.41.4kYour content has been saved!
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60-Second Strategy: Quiz Quiz Trade
When students get up and moving in this low-stakes conversational activity, they learn more about the topic—but also about each other.29kYour content has been saved!
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Walking Through Writing a Compelling Essay
Working out the parts of an essay step by step helps students think more creatively and analytically about what they want to convey.16.3kYour content has been saved!
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6 Common Teacher Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them
From rushing through prep to misjudging students’ readiness for a task to teaching the way they were taught, experienced teachers talk about some of the mistakes they’ve made.
- Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Implementing a PBL Design Challenge in Your School
A weeklong, schoolwide project-based learning challenge encourages students to try to tackle meaningful problems.7.6kYour content has been saved!
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Implementing PBL in Physical Education
At its core, high-quality PBL uses content to teach, build, and assess skills like collaboration and problem-solving—and PE classes are a natural place to continue this work.907Your content has been saved!
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Building PBL Systems That Really Encourage Students to Lead
Teachers can set up effective systems for project-based learning that support students in assuming more agency in their work.4.7kYour content has been saved!
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How to Navigate Student Absences During PBL Units
When absences accumulate, teachers can implement specific strategies so that all students complete necessary work.2.2kYour content has been saved!
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A Virtual Collaboration Project Centered on American Democracy
In a program sponsored by the Smithsonian, students in two different parts of the country interact to explore a civics question that is meaningful to both groups.1.1kYour content has been saved!
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- Student Engagement
Make Hands-On Activities Work for Lower Elementary Students
Teachers can make projects more accessible and engaging for students by prioritizing creativity and learning over perfection.572Your content has been saved!
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‘I’m Bored’: The Dreaded Student Complaint
The key to not taking it personally is investigating the cause—the student may not be challenged by the work, or may not understand the work. There are strategies for overcoming these and other challenges. - Student Engagement
How to Give Students Directions They Actually Understand
Making small changes in your instructions can have a significant impact on students’ understanding and engagement.7.9kYour content has been saved!
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Podcast: How to Teach Deep Mathematical Thinking
Use the curriculum you already have to create rich tasks that build reasoning and problem-solving skills, says Stanford professor Jo Boaler.
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Making Math Centers Fun Helps Make Them Successful
Students actively engage in tasks that are doable and interesting—which frees up time for personalized instruction.1.4kYour content has been saved!
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- Teacher Wellness
3 Ways to Set Boundaries to Protect Your Time and Energy
Implementing specific strategies can help you prioritize your time, protect your peace, and connect to things that energize you.2.7kYour content has been saved!
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How to Engage Productively on Social Media as a Teacher
Although many platforms are designed to reward provocation and outrage, we can choose how we interact with different perspectives.1.4kYour content has been saved!
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The Research on Protecting Teacher Well-Being
Laurie Santos, host of the popular podcast The Happiness Lab, on how our minds deceive us, why "time affluence" matters, and what we can do to reset our parasympathetic nervous system.51.3kYour content has been saved!
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For Elementary Counselors, Big Caseloads Require Getting Creative
When you’re one counselor to several hundred students, you need to leverage support from both teachers and students—and learn when to say no.1.8kYour content has been saved!
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You Are OK and You Will Be OK: Navigating Menopause as a Teacher
When in your mid-career, if you can openly acknowledge this important stage of life and find support, you'll feel more empowered to manage challenges.1.7kYour content has been saved!
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