- Professional Learning
Question: What Are Your Favorite Podcasts?
Editor Anne Noyes Saini wants to know about the shows you love.Your content has been saved!
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Encouraging Exploration and Innovation in the Classroom
Small instructional shifts can guide students to use technology in ways that develop their critical thinking and creativity.Your content has been saved!
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3 School Leaders on Supporting and Motivating Teachers After Winter Break
Award-winning principals describe their preferred strategies for uplifting educators at the start of a new semester.Your content has been saved!
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How—and Why—to Use Improv in the Classroom
By regularly including theater games in the classroom, teachers give students an opportunity to build community, practice social skills, and gain a deeper understanding of academic content.Your content has been saved!
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7 Ways School Leaders Can Empower Teachers
Simple strategies can be deeply effective for helping teachers manage the requirements of their jobs and achieve success.Your content has been saved!
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Proactively Limiting the Use of AI in the Classroom
By modeling AI, teachers can demonstrate to students the benefits and shortcomings of the technology.Your content has been saved!
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Facilitating a Common Vision for School Leaders and Teachers
A leadership coach shares how they helped staff at a middle school connect and collaborate on a new, data-driven plan.Your content has been saved!
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Using Local Place Names to Teach History
These place-based learning ideas help high school students discover more about their community as they learn to use the historical method. - Special Education
Strategies for Running a Truly Student-Centered IEP Meeting
Art pieces, artifacts, and interest questionnaires can make a world of difference.132Your content has been saved!
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What the Edutopia Community Taught Me About Teaching Shakespeare
Touching base with her fellow educators helped an English teacher affirm her desire to teach students about the Bard.
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- Learning Environments
4 Classroom Design Tactics to Motivate Students
Teachers can make small shifts in their classroom design to boost engagement, spark curiosity, and celebrate success. - English Language Learners
Supporting Neuroplasticity in Multilingual Learners
Challenging, culturally responsive assignments can create a dynamic that supports students’ language development and critical thinking. - Research
To Study Better, Don’t Start From Zero
Strategic, research-backed improvements can help students transform their favorite study habits into tools for deeper learning and retention. - Literacy
What SEL Adds to Our Understanding of Literacy Development in Young Children
Teachers can use connections between literacy and social and emotional learning to awaken a love of reading in young students. - Literacy
Using Maslow’s Hierarchy to Teach Literary Analysis
The ability to understand why people do what they do starts with empathy, and using the hierarchy of needs can help students understand fictional characters.
- Project-Based Learning (PBL)
How to Introduce PBL Into a Packaged Curriculum
Even with established curriculum, teachers can produce engaging learning experiences that address required learning standards and meet students’ needs. - Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Inspiring Curiosity and Critical Thinking in Pre-K
Project-based learning can inspire young students to ask questions about their surroundings and see where their curiosity takes them.398Your content has been saved!
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6 Strategies for Scaffolding PBL in First and Second Grade
These tips for balancing structure with choice can help ensure an engaging and productive project-based learning experience for young students.227Your content has been saved!
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Practical Tips for Introducing Debate in Elementary School
With guidance, students in grades 3 through 5 can build communication and critical thinking skills through lively discussions.201Your content has been saved!
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Essential Steps for Setting Up Schoolwide PBL
Implementing any new initiative is tough, but school leaders can use these ideas to work with teachers in rolling out project-based learning across the school.145Your content has been saved!
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- English Language Learners
Bolstering Language Instruction With Comics
Visual texts can be an effective way for English language learners to build literacy skills.157Your content has been saved!
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Spencer Russell on What We Get Wrong About Reading Instruction
There’s a way to get kids learning to read quickly and feeling excited about it, says the former teacher and TikTok influencer—and the return for teachers is big. - Literacy
What SEL Adds to Our Understanding of Literacy Development in Young Children
Teachers can use connections between literacy and social and emotional learning to awaken a love of reading in young students. - Literacy
Using Maslow’s Hierarchy to Teach Literary Analysis
The ability to understand why people do what they do starts with empathy, and using the hierarchy of needs can help students understand fictional characters. - Literacy
Cultivating Writing Skills in Young Learners
This strategy for teaching creative writing to first- and second-grade students uses an engaging and differentiated approach.
- Homework
How to Encourage Students to Turn In Quality Work
To help prevent hastily completed assignments, teachers can share clear expectations with students and offer manageable timelines. - Teaching Strategies
How to Make One-on-One ELA Conferences Work
Middle school teachers and students can both benefit from individual conferences, and this routine makes them manageable. - Formative Assessment
Assessing as You Teach
These formative assessment strategies for the early grades can save time as you, and your students, discover where they are in the learning process. - Assessment
How Can I Be Sure I Know What Students Are Learning?
A teacher who found that reams of data didn’t capture students’ learning made these three tweaks to his quizzes and tests. - Formative Assessment
How to Use Universal Screening Data to Guide Instruction
Information collected from literacy assessments can help teachers make instructional decisions that improve student learning.270Your content has been saved!
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