- Critical Thinking
5 Ways to Encourage Active Learning in Familiar Classroom Activities
How can teachers ensure that students are doing meaningful cognitive work? These tweaks to common routines like turn-and-talk set up conditions for deeper thinking.Your content has been saved!
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Books That Support Nature-Centered Play
Preschool teachers can use these books to create rich learning experiences that engage students in problem-solving.Your content has been saved!
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3 Middle School Labs You Can Do With Eggs
You don’t need fancy equipment to have students begin exploring topics like chemistry, cell biology, and scientific measurement.Your content has been saved!
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How to Bring Social Studies to Life
By investigating familiar places, analyzing visual data, and exploring perspectives from the past, students can build a deeper understanding of history and culture.Your content has been saved!
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The Worries That Keep Teachers Up at Night, and How to Manage Them
An experienced educator runs through common concerns—from students running amok to lack of time—and shares strategies to help teachers sleep peacefully. - Literacy
How to Set Up a Book Quilting Bee
Elementary teachers can guide students to deepen their connections to each other by creating a paper quilt based on their favorite books. - Critical Thinking
Improving Students’ Critical Thinking by Trading Questions for Questions
By resisting the urge to answer students’ questions, teachers can help unlock their ability to pose those questions to themselves.177Your content has been saved!
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What Can School Leaders Do to Support a Struggling Teacher?
Teachers often feel alone facing an issue in the classroom, and maintaining lots of points of contact can help them open the door to offers of support.553Your content has been saved!
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5 Simple Ways to Make Lessons More Engaging
Elementary teachers can use these ideas to kick off lessons with an element of fun that serves the learning goals.558Your content has been saved!
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How to Create an ‘Operational Scope and Sequence’ to Track Important Work Across Your School
A principal shares the templates for a document that her team created to aid in planning, and in tracking how and when decisions were made.606Your content has been saved!
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- Literacy
How to Lock In New Vocabulary in 10 Minutes a Day
A weeklong vocabulary routine with movement and repetition helps students go beyond definitions and put new words to use in conversation and writing. - Student Engagement
9 Strategies for Tackling Student Work Refusal
Teacher-tested tactics to get learning back on track when students refuse to do the work. - Brain-Based Learning
What to Do When Students Think They Already Know Something
If students think they’ve mastered something, they have little reason to make an effort. These strategies help them see the limits of their knowledge. - The Research Is In
How Good Teachers Get Even Better
Like elite athletes and musicians, even outstanding teachers have room to grow. Here are 6 research-based ways to keep sharpening your skills. - Brain-Based Learning
Podcast: The Extraordinary Impact of Drawing to Learn
In Selim Tlili’s high school classroom, sketching isn’t about artistic ability. It’s a simple—but powerful—tactic for boosting student recall and comprehension.
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6 Ways to Implement Integrated Studies as a Music Teacher
Adding themes from different content areas into music lessons helps maximize learning and provides opportunities for collaboration with other educators.1.2kYour 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.2.2kYour content has been saved!
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How to Adapt ‘Julius Caesar’ for Upper Elementary Students
Immersing students in the history and politics of ancient Rome helps them come to a rich understanding of Shakespeare’s play.935Your content has been saved!
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Using Multigenre Picture Books in Middle School
Books that convey nonfiction topics through poems and images help students learn to process information, a skill they can transfer to other texts.1.9kYour content has been saved!
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Combining Science and Music for Deeper Learning
Elementary music teachers can incorporate scientific concepts into lessons so students get a multilayered learning experience.
- New Teachers
What an Experienced Teacher Notices in the First 5 Minutes of Class
Maintaining a flexible approach when students’ needs and behaviors shift allows teachers to respond in effective ways that support learning. - Curriculum Planning
How an Anti-AP Teacher Learned to Enjoy Teaching an AP Class
The exams have clear requirements, but this Government and Politics teacher created a rich learning experience that encouraged students’ curiosity.731Your content has been saved!
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How Good Teachers Get Even Better
Like elite athletes and musicians, even outstanding teachers have room to grow. Here are 6 research-based ways to keep sharpening your skills. - Administration & Leadership
Ensuring That PD Sessions Really Help Teachers Improve
Leaders can support teachers’ growth by working to narrow the gap between learning a strategy and practicing it enough to make it a habit.1.2kYour content has been saved!
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A Teacher Reflection Practice for the New School Year
It’s important for teachers to process their feelings about previous challenges so that they can learn and grow from their experiences.1kYour content has been saved!
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Maintaining a Kind School Culture
If you’re fortunate enough to work in a school with a positive environment, here are ways you can help sustain it.1.7kYour content has been saved!
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The Missing Question in Teacher Reflection: What Went Right?
These reflection strategies can help teachers shift from self-criticism to recognizing their growth and building on what’s already working. - Professional Learning
What Do They Want From Me?: How to Win at Classroom Observations
An instructional coach shares a way to plan for instruction that both serves student growth and alleviates a bit of the stress of being observed.5.2kYour content has been saved!
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How Veteran Teachers Keep Their Cool
Go-to strategies from veteran teachers for maintaining a ‘responsive, not reactive’ approach to classroom conflict. - Teaching Strategies
How My ADHD Shaped My Classroom
An award-winning teacher describes how he adjusted his approach to instruction and assessment to align with his needs and strengths.8.2kYour content has been saved!
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