- Formative Assessment
Making Formative Assessments More Efficient and Effective
Incorporating peer review and individual reflections makes frequent, intentional formative assessment manageable, with big benefits for student learning.Your content has been saved!
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Using Questions to Encourage Emergent Learning
Understanding the importance of preschool students’ questions is key to guiding their learning experiences and fostering a spirit of inquiry.Your content has been saved!
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Benefits of Using Skills-Based Instruction in Advanced Placement Courses
With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP scores.Your content has been saved!
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Making Literary Analysis Creative Through Thematic Sculptures
When students use playful materials to build a physical object that represents their thinking, they grapple with texts in new ways.Your content has been saved!
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How School Leaders Can Make High-Stakes Decisions With Clarity and Empathy
When every option feels hard or impossible, this framework helps school leaders make clear, confident decisions—and communicate them well.Your content has been saved!
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Helping Students Learn the Art of Trying in Math
These four classroom shifts can make academic risk-taking feel safer, clearer, and more worthwhile for middle school students.566Your content has been saved!
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6 Simple Ways to Encourage Elementary Students to Read
Reading is a core life skill, and these activities help keep it interesting and fun for young readers.1.2kYour content has been saved!
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Five Math Procedures To Help Students Learn From Their Mistakes
When common math errors are examined, discussed, and revised, they can deepen students’ learning.1.4kYour content has been saved!
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How Women in School Leadership Can Combat All-Too-Common Stereotypes
Confidence, collaboration, and community can help female administrators “lead from a place of authenticity.”580Your content has been saved!
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Maintaining Strong Family Partnerships Year-Round
Finding family engagement strategies that feel authentic and manageable can help elementary teachers establish and maintain close relationships with parents.463Your content has been saved!
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- Literacy
A Scaffolding Strategy to Help Experienced ELLs Express Complex Ideas
This technique gives multilingual students explicit instruction on how to effectively develop their ideas for each part of a paragraph and to link one idea to the next.12.6kYour content has been saved!
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How to Differentiate Without Splitting Students Up
Advice for teachers who want to make sure everyone in their classroom works and learns in tandem.9.8kYour content has been saved!
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How to Develop Test-Ready Students
There’s a difference between teaching to the test and developing test-specific thinking that will help students effectively apply what they’ve learned all year. - Mindfulness
Combining Mindfulness, Movement, and Meaning in Brain Breaks
The best brain breaks aren’t random or mere time-fillers—they’re purposeful pauses that help students regulate, reconnect, and reset. - Student Engagement
Simple Swaps for Moving From Passive to Active Learning
These tips demonstrate that planning for active learning experiences doesn’t have to be time-intensive or difficult.6.5kYour content has been saved!
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- Technology Integration
Designing a Low-Tech, High-Connection Pre-K Classroom
Preschool teachers can carve out tech-free spaces and ensure that when technology is used, it serves as a bridge for conversation, collaboration, and reflection.1.4kYour content has been saved!
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Using Text-to-Speech Technology to Support All Students
Built-in screen readers improve the accessibility of texts and can help students achieve success in building higher-level literacy skills.2.3kYour content has been saved!
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Strengthening Students’ Foundational Math Skills in Middle School
If many students are struggling with operations like dividing decimals, this schoolwide approach to scheduling can help.5.1kYour content has been saved!
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A Virtual Collaboration Project Centered on American Democracy
In a program sponsored by the Smithsonian, students in two different parts of the country interact to explore a civics question that is meaningful to both groups.796Your content has been saved!
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5 Tech Integration Mistakes—and What to Do Differently Next Time
Classroom tech use will always involve some element of trial and error, but many pitfalls are avoidable when you know what to watch out for.14.7kYour content has been saved!
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- Brain-Based Learning
Scaffolding Deeper Learning With Recall Activities
When students are asked to remember and explain relevant knowledge just before applying it, they arrive at a more concrete understanding of the content.Your content has been saved!
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5 Ways to Help Students Reset Their Thinking
When students hit cognitive roadblocks, these strategies will help them pause, rethink their approach, and reengage with their learning process.Your content has been saved!
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Cracking the Code of Math Word Problems
Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.Your content has been saved!
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Bolstering Effortful Thinking With Think, Ink, Pair, Share
Adding a writing step to this common classroom practice helps teachers ensure that every student is getting the opportunity to think deeply about a question.Your content has been saved!
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Activating Prior Knowledge With Hexagonal Thinking
By creating a visual web of knowledge, students can demonstrate what connections they have already made about a topic, and where they might need additional clarification and support.Your content has been saved!
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- Formative Assessment
Using Interviews to Gain Insight Into Students’ Math Thinking
Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with traditional assessments.1.4kYour content has been saved!
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Fun Formative Assessment Activities Inspired by UDL
Varying the format of comprehension checks guides students to demonstrate learning and provides teachers feedback on progress.6kYour 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. - Formative Assessment
Crafting Data-Driven Narratives About Students
Telling stories with and about data helps students better see themselves as learners and helps teachers center them in the classroom.7.2kYour content has been saved!
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Using Oral Assessments to Enrich Our Understanding of Student Learning
If you’ve ever had the sense that grades didn’t truly reflect what students had learned, formal and informal talks can give you more data and a more accurate picture.
