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Online Learning
Keeping Kindergartners Engaged in Distance Learning
Personalizing lessons and giving brain breaks can help young students stay engaged during short synchronous sessions.
Ruth Calkins
School Leadership
What Summer Schools Learned About the Challenges of Reopening
Across the country, forward-looking districts used summer school to anticipate—and try to solve—some of the issues they’d inevitably face when schools reopened.
Nora Fleming
The Research Is In
7 Classroom Management Mistakes—and the Research on How to Fix Them
Whether our emotions get the best of us, or we fall into familiar but unproductive habits, here are 7 common classroom management mistakes, and what the research suggests you should do instead.
Youki Terada
Assessment
Starting the Year With Adaptable Literacy Preassessments
Planning to assess literacy skills in formats that work in either live or remote instruction will help middle school teachers meet students where they are.
Kasey Short
STEM
Making STEM More Engaging and Inclusive
By allowing student interests to guide projects, teachers can open up the world of STEM to learners who have previously been sidelined.
Chris Anderson, Ben Owens
Literacy
Developing Literacy Through Reading Buddies
Pairing little kids with big ones to read together builds more than literacy skills; it fosters relationships that benefit everyone involved.
Literacy
Building Literacy Skills With Dramatic Play
By acting out their own stories, young children develop a deeper understanding of character, setting, and language.
Game-Based Learning
How to Use Games to Build Community in Distance Learning
Games not only provide fun distractions from the stressors of the pandemic but also can be useful tools for online learning.
Carol Rawlings Miller
Critical Thinking
Starting Critical Thinking and Collaboration Early
Even the youngest students can collaborate productively to push each other’s learning through a protocol that introduces peer feedback.
Teaching Strategies
Making Space for Deeper Mathematics Learning
When students have a chance to explore math in new ways, they develop better conceptual understanding.

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Keeping Kindergartners Engaged in Distance Learning