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- Teacher Wellness
The Worries That Keep Teachers Up at Night, and How to Manage Them
An experienced educator runs through common concerns—from students running amok to lack of time—and shares strategies to help teachers sleep peacefully.Your content has been saved!
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How to Set Up a Book Quilting Bee
Elementary teachers can guide students to deepen their connections to each other by creating a paper quilt based on their favorite books.Your content has been saved!
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Improving Students’ Critical Thinking by Trading Questions for Questions
By resisting the urge to answer students’ questions, teachers can help unlock their ability to pose those questions to themselves.Your content has been saved!
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What Can School Leaders Do to Support a Struggling Teacher?
Teachers often feel alone facing an issue in the classroom, and maintaining lots of points of contact can help them open the door to offers of support.108Your content has been saved!
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5 Simple Ways to Make Lessons More Engaging
Elementary teachers can use these ideas to kick off lessons with an element of fun that serves the learning goals.110Your content has been saved!
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How to Create an ‘Operational Scope and Sequence’ to Track Important Work Across Your School
A principal shares the templates for a document that her team created to aid in planning, and in tracking how and when decisions were made.127Your content has been saved!
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Can AI Pass as Shakespeare? Let Students Be the Judge
By prompting an AI chatbot to craft a Shakespearean sonnet, then auditing its fidelity to the form, students get a crash course in close reading (and a healthy dose of AI skepticism). - Collaborative Learning
Setting Up the Conditions for Productive Math Conversations
When elementary students learn some tools for discussing math, they can start to see it as more than just quickly getting to the right answer.303Your content has been saved!
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Building Better Responses With the RACE Writing Strategy
A simple four-step routine helps young writers organize their ideas, support their thinking with evidence, and make their writing more meaningful to their readers.Your content has been saved!
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Special EducationEssential Resources for Special Education
We’ve gathered advice for teachers on managing student accommodations, navigating IEPs, and much more, as well as ideas for administrators on how to support teachers in this work.11.4kYour content has been saved!
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