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- Technology Integration
27 Quick Win, Low-Prep Ways to Integrate Tech This Year
These teacher-tested activities use free or familiar tools to help students think critically, create meaningfully, and collaborate with each other.Your content has been saved!
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How Forward-Thinking Schools Are Shaping the Future of AI in Education
Districts across the country are creating new leadership roles, identifying best practices, and writing flexible policies to prepare students and teachers for an AI-driven world.Your content has been saved!
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Using ‘Tell Me More’ Prompts to Make Learning Stick
Asking students to explain how they arrived at an answer is a powerful strategy for making a concept more memorable.Your content has been saved!
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Schools Try AI as Student Mental Health Needs Surge
Social-emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs are outpacing what schools can provide. Can technology—namely AI—step in to help?Your content has been saved!
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5 Research-Backed Literacy Strategies That Go Beyond Phonics
Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are grounded in science and tested by expert educators.Your content has been saved!
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13 Super-Quick Formative Assessments
Teachers can use these techniques to gauge students’ understanding mid-lesson and then decide whether to reteach or press ahead.Your content has been saved!
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A Simple and Effective Way to Teach Annotation
Try a straightforward three-step strategy to help students get comfortable with exploring challenging reading assignments.Your content has been saved!
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Surveying Students Regularly Can Yield Valuable Connections
Making a habit of surveying students provides a wealth of information about their goals, challenges, and everyday lives. - Literacy
Using Picture Books to Support Meaning-Making in the Early Grades
Early childhood teachers can guide students in exploring how to communicate meaningful events and feelings even before they can write.111Your content has been saved!
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How Meditation Helps Me Teach a Tricky Physics Concept
Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own breathing.106Your content has been saved!
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