- Literacy
‘Is This Anything?’
These low-stakes writing activities can be used across content areas to help high school students recognize that their ideas have value.Your content has been saved!
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5 Research-Based Studying Strategies for High School Students
Integrating active recall and synthesis into the process of reviewing for exams helps students study more productively.Your content has been saved!
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Refocus Students With Silent Brain Breaks
These three activities allow early elementary students to play while also creating a sense of calm they carry back into learning.Your content has been saved!
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Working Toward Instructional Equity for All
A focus on the science of learning has helped this district shrink achievement and opportunity gaps—by making sure every student is engaged in effortful thinking.Your content has been saved!
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Designing Classroom Accommodations That Help Students With Disabilities Succeed in College
Teachers can support students during the final stages of college preparation by viewing supports through a transition lens.Your content has been saved!
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Exploration-Based Learning in Preschool
Designing inquiry around student curiosity allows them learn language, math, and SEL skills through investigations of their environment.Your content has been saved!
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Bringing Your Elementary Tech Class Outdoors
These ideas for both digital and analog lessons get kids outside while still learning important tech skills.Your content has been saved!
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Making Reading Personal by Identifying Purpose
When students reflect on their reason for engaging with a text, they can develop a stronger understanding of it.387Your content has been saved!
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Fun End-of-Year Assessments for Art Classes
Teacher can try incorporating scavenger hunts and a Pictionary-style tournament to get students to show what they know.249Your content has been saved!
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Exploring the Science of Flight With Model Rockets and Airplanes
These hands-on projects are a highly engaging way for high school students to explore aerodynamics and physics.276Your content has been saved!
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- ChatGPT & Generative AI
Why and How I’m Limiting Screen Time in My Classroom
Digital tools have uses, but they can also risk reducing the productive struggle students need to build critical thinking skills. - Teaching Strategies
Making the Most of Learning Objectives
Asking students to unpack learning objectives with a quick routine helps them connect prior knowledge and feel more prepared for the day’s lesson.21.6kYour content has been saved!
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Attention Is Not a Trait—It’s a Teachable Skill
Teachers can use these six strategies to boost students’ ability to work with sustained focus for increasing amounts of time. - Literacy
Getting Teens Hooked on Books With First Chapter Fridays
By reading aloud in middle and high school, teachers can expose students to new ideas, genres, and authors—and get them excited about books. - Classroom Management
A 6-Step Approach to Proactive Classroom Management
This framework helps teachers decide which behaviors to ignore and which ones need to be addressed—and how to best address them.14.7kYour content has been saved!
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- 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.10.9kYour 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.1.3kYour 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.6.2kYour 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.2.4kYour 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.1.2kYour content has been saved!
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- Brain-Based Learning
Guiding Students to Develop Perseverance
When students focus on progress over immediate performance, success feels more attainable.2.5kYour content has been saved!
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Attention Is Not a Trait—It’s a Teachable Skill
Teachers can use these six strategies to boost students’ ability to work with sustained focus for increasing amounts of time. - Teaching Strategies
Unlocking Effortful Thinking by Asking the Right Questions
By crafting a line of questioning around precisely what they want students thinking about, teachers create opportunities for students to process—and better retain—key content.Your content has been saved!
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Podcast: Helping Students Overcome the Forgetting Curve
High school teacher Cathleen Beachboard shares her top three strategies to flatten the dreaded forgetting curve and help students remember what you teach them.
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Helping Students Understand How The Brain Works
These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts learning.6.3kYour content has been saved!
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- Administration & Leadership
Are You Micromanaging?
Carefully considering these five questions can help leaders understand whether they are empowering staff members—or disregarding their expertise.1.9kYour content has been saved!
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Giving Teachers Ownership Over Their Professional Learning
The best kind of professional learning is the kind that teachers actually care about—involving the things they engage with every day.752Your content has been saved!
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How Administrators Can Use Data to Explore Issues of Equity
Accessing a range of data can give leaders a broad understanding of issues affecting the student body, and what to do about them.553Your content has been saved!
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How to Set Up and Then Evaluate School Initiatives
Rolling out new courses, adjusting the master schedule, implementing a cell phone policy—getting an initiative off the ground and monitoring outcomes is tough work, and these principals are here to help.2.3kYour content has been saved!
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How Do I Carve Out Time for What I Need to Do as a Leader?
Administrators can take an intentional pause to ensure that most of their time is spent being proactive rather than reactive.2.9kYour content has been saved!
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