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- Student Engagement
Attention Is Not a Trait—It’s a Teachable Skill
Teachers can use these six strategies to boost students’ ability to work with sustained focus for increasing amounts of time.Your content has been saved!
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3 Practical Ways to Build Students’ Writing Stamina
Teachers can encourage students to concentrate on three aspects of drafting to improve their engagement with writing assignments.Your content has been saved!
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Planning a Cross-Grade Service Learning Project
Pairing high schoolers and kindergartners for an outreach project yields benefits for both the students and their community.Your content has been saved!
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Guiding Students to Evaluate Their Own Level of Engagement
These verbal and nonverbal strategies help elementary students indicate their understanding of a lesson and assess their level of engagement.Your content has been saved!
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Games That Teach Young Kids to Stop, Listen, and Focus
New research looks at how movement-based games like Simon Says and Red Light, Green Light can improve a young student’s self regulation skills.Your content has been saved!
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Keeping Elementary Students Engaged as the Year Winds Down
By weaving play, reflection, and calm into classroom routines, teachers can manage young students’ spring fever—and end the year strong.Your content has been saved!
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How to Set Up and Then Evaluate School Initiatives
Rolling out new courses, adjusting the master schedule, implementing a cell phone policy—getting an initiative off the ground and monitoring outcomes is tough work, and these principals are here to help.553Your content has been saved!
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A 6-Step Approach to Proactive Classroom Management
This framework helps teachers decide which behaviors to ignore and which ones need to be addressed—and how to best address them.2.8kYour content has been saved!
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A Multisensory Approach to Literacy in Kindergarten
Teachers can help students develop phonemic awareness with these playful activities that engage multiple sensory pathways.1.2kYour content has been saved!
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7 Ways to Help English Learners Speak Up in Class
Strategies like extending wait time and having students write before speaking create conditions for English learners to feel confident participating in discussions.770Your content has been saved!
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