- Retrieval Practice
Embrace the Blank Page
Research supports regularly asking students to recall information from memory, and to do that you don’t need a worksheet—just a plain piece of paper works great.Your content has been saved!
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5 Tips to Help Leaders Get Control of Their Email
The goal for school leaders facing a torrent of emails is prioritizing the communication that really matters. (And sometimes that’s a phone call.)Your content has been saved!
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10 Books With Neurodivergent Characters
These books can be powerful tools for reducing stigma, opening up dialogue, and promoting empathy and understanding.Your content has been saved!
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Boosting Student Engagement Through a Schoolwide Lunch Hour
For this high school in West Virginia, building time for clubs and tutoring into the school day means happier, higher-achieving students.Your content has been saved!
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How to Turn Test Retakes Into a Classroom Staple
Allowing retakes gives students another chance to learn and to demonstrate learning—the challenge is making redos work within the schedule.Your content has been saved!
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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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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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- 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.41.5kYour 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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- Professional Learning
Supporting Teachers in Implementing the Science of Learning
By rooting their professional development in learning science, this district helped teachers figure out which strategies to use more frequently,and which to retire.Your content has been saved!
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Scaling Up When Only One Teacher Attends PD
How to leverage individual teachers' experience with professional development when not everyone can go.1.7kYour 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. - Administration & Leadership
A DIY Approach to Professional Development for Principals
Administrators can set annual goals and consult peers at other schools to create professional learning experiences that enhance their skills.837Your content has been saved!
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How I’m Working to Gain Experience as an Aspiring Administrator
A teacher who is striving for a leadership role relays how she turned a job rejection into an opportunity for growth.1.9kYour content has been saved!
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- Administration & Leadership
I Didn’t Want to Be a Principal
When she was still a teacher, this principal realized that leadership was not just paperwork and that she could have a different impact on students.2.2kYour content has been saved!
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Planning a Special Event Day Your Students Will Remember
Whether the day is dedicated to outdoor activities, STEM, art, or something else, elementary students will be excited to participate in novel activities with their peers and teachers.1.2kYour content has been saved!
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Making Instructional Coaching Standard for Every Teacher
Instructional coaching works best when it is normalized as part of everyday professional life, not positioned as a corrective measure.3.2kYour content has been saved!
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6 Questions to Ask Yourself When You’re Considering a Professional Transition
These questions can help administrators decide when it’s time to step into a more complex role, move laterally to a new setting, or begin to imagine retirement.1.3kYour content has been saved!
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Applying a UDL Framework to the Coaching Cycle
This three-phase approach to instructional coaching embraces the fact that educators are lifelong learners.3.9kYour content has been saved!
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