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Brain-Based Learning
Helping Students Develop Executive Function Skills
Simple classroom strategies can assist students with deficits in executive function skills like time management and active listening.
Gina DiTullio
School Leadership
Connecting Education Policy to School Culture
A middle school principal draws on lessons learned in policy creation to foster a strong school culture.
Matthew Howell
Assessment
3 Tips for Using Conversations for Assessment
Assessing students doesn’t have to mean giving a test—an interview or informal chat is often a better option.
Andrew Miller
School Leadership
Practicing Community-Based Leadership
Six strategies administrators can use to encourage everyone from students on up to be leaders in their schools and districts.
Kathryn Fishman-Weaver
Social and Emotional Learning
A Simple but Powerful Class Opening Activity
The rose and thorn check-in is a quick strategy for building community and developing student voice.
Alex Shevrin Venet
Social and Emotional Learning
A 4-Step Process for Building Student Resilience
A special education teacher has developed worksheets to help all students identify and manage their stressors.
Michele Lew
Project-Based Learning
Chickens and Checkbooks
A teacher shares what she and her third graders learned from their first experience with project-based learning—a chicken coop.
Shannon Leonard
Literacy
Improving Reading Outcomes for Economically Disadvantaged Students
A teacher at a Title I school shares classroom and school-wide strategies to improve students’ reading trajectories.
Heather Butters
School Leadership
Cultivating a Strong Staff Culture
School and district leaders can build strong relationships among educators by focusing on three factors.
Eric Saibel
Social and Emotional Learning
Getting Creative With SEL
How to incorporate creative expression and movement in the classroom while building social and emotional learning skills.
Maurice J. Elias, Sara LaHayne

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