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A Guide to Teaching Writing With Minecraft
Using the popular game in station rotation activities during distance learning is a way to bring an element of play and collaboration to writing assignments.
Matthew Farber
Making the Most of Synchronous Sessions in PBL
In planning project-based learning units, teachers can maximize students’ time together by focusing on collaboration and feedback.
Andrew Miller
How to Make Virtual STEM Lessons More Engaging for Young Learners
These easy-to-implement strategies can make science, technology, engineering, and math lessons come alive for elementary students.
Melissa Collins
Using the Election as a Teaching Tool
With careful planning, teachers can use the election to foster social and emotional learning and connect math, literacy, and social studies lessons.
Erica Silva
Staff Meetings Get a Needed Makeover During the Pandemic
Educators across the country share their insights on how the pandemic has forced them to change staff meetings—for the better.
Emelina Minero
3 Steps to Developing an Asset-Based Approach to Teaching
Through this approach, which focuses on students’ strengths, teachers can plan instruction that promotes a growth mindset.
Angela Di Michele Lalor
Avoiding Common Mistakes in Motivating Students to Do Math
In this excerpt from ‘The Math Teacher’s Toolbox,’ the authors, veteran high school math teachers, share research on motivation.
Bobson Wong, Larisa Bukalov
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Letting Young People Lead With Their Identity
By providing students with opportunities to let their identities shine, educators get to know them well, says youth advocate Karen Pittman—and that is one of the first steps in culturally responsive teaching.
Why Teaching Kindergarten Online Is So Very, Very Hard
Teachers, kindergarteners, and parents are trying to make online learning work—and snow days and other future emergencies will likely mean they have to again. But is it really possible?
Marva Hinton
Improving Your Practice Through A Self-Coaching Framework
Picking a single problem to work on and mapping out strategies to tackle it can help teachers overcome their biggest challenges.
Michelle Blanchet

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A Guide to Teaching Writing With Minecraft

Letting Young People Lead With Their Identity