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  • Classroom Management

    Go-to Activities for Fast Finishers

    Offering fun designated extension activities means the learning continues, even for the speediest students.

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  • ChatGPT & Generative AI

    Putting ChatGPT’s Study Mode Through Its Paces

    The team behind ChatGPT admits the standard version can be used as an ‘answer machine.’ Is the new Study Mode feature any better?
    Erik Ofgang

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  • Administration & Leadership

    How to Create a Crisis Handbook to Prepare Your School for Emergencies

    As a school leader, you can’t anticipate when a disaster may happen, but you can develop systems to help ensure that your staff and families are prepared.

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  • Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)

    5 Ways to Develop Students’ Social and Emotional Skills in Music Class

    These performance-based activities can be fun for students and provide opportunities for them to develop empathy.

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  • Administration & Leadership

    Making the Shift to Learning Science

    In Maryland, a district's decade of effort to train more than 4,000 educators on how the brain learns best—so they can apply cognitive science in their own classrooms—begins to pay off.

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  • Creativity

    Daily Activities That Support Students’ Creative Mindset

    Teachers can provide learning experiences that guide high school students to become comfortable with uncertainty and risk-taking.
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  • Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)

    How to Teach Kids to Be Kind to Themselves

    Kindness toward others is often taught in elementary school, but it’s also important for students to extend it to themselves.
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  • Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)

    Integrating Social and Emotional Learning in Math Class

    Teachers can use these routines to seamlessly integrate SEL into math instruction to boost students’ proficiency and encourage a positive math identity.
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  • Classroom Management

    4 Ways to Give Preschool Students Autonomy During Large Group Time

    Students need clear boundaries, but they also need to feel that they belong during an activity and that their ideas shape their learning.
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  • Administration & Leadership

    A 3-Step Strategy for Addressing Difficult Situations With Parents

    Administrators can resolve complicated issues by holding an information-gathering meeting, conducting an investigation, and then circling back to parents.
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