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3 Tips for Less Stressful Parent-Teacher Conferences
By soliciting feedback from parents in advance and limiting defensive responses, new teachers can manage the stress of conferences.Your content has been saved!
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Guiding Students to Develop Their Civic Character
These strategies can help foster respect, empathy, and social engagement across grade levels and subject areas.105Your content has been saved!
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Increasing Talk Time in World Language Classes
Teachers can experiment with a variety of strategies to build and assess students’ ability to converse in the target language. - Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
Building Emotional Literacy With a Brain Break
When students play a theater game where they name and act out emotions, they become more skilled at articulating their feelings. - Inquiry-Based Learning
Weighing Inquiry-Based Learning and Direct Instruction in Elementary Math
Teachers can ask themselves three key questions in order to choose the most effective instructional approach to a topic.127Your content has been saved!
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Overcoming Potential Risks of Student Tech Use
From social isolation to a mistaken belief that they can multitask, here are some of the risks that arise when students use digital tools—and what teachers can do to help. - Teacher Wellness
Doing the Best You Can With the Time You Have
These strategies can help overwhelmed teachers prioritize tasks and find a balance between perfectionism and efficiency. - Administration & Leadership
How to Support Teachers’ Emotional Health
Emotional well-being plays a major role in teachers’ job satisfaction, and it’s essential that they have effective resources for support.223Your content has been saved!
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The Tech Skills That ‘Digital Natives’ Are Missing—and How to Help
Students are growing up in a world filled with technology, but explicit instruction, support, and guidance are needed to help them use it in ways that meaningfully amplify their learning. - Administration & Leadership
Tips for Mentoring New Teachers
A district leader shares how taking a more holistic approach to mentoring can help ensure that the experience is productive and rewarding for both mentor and mentee.165Your content has been saved!
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How to Make Read-Alouds Fun and Effective for All Ages
Well-planned read-alouds can enhance critical thinking, comprehension, and engagement across disciplines—and age levels. - Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
3 Ways to Integrate SEL Into Classroom Practices
Highlighting and modeling SEL practices can help teachers create an environment where disruptive behaviors are minimized.508Your content has been saved!
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How to Maintain Your Focus During the School Year
Teaching with intention toward learning outcomes can be done in a focused way that prioritizes flexibility, inquiry, and relationships.450Your content has been saved!
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In Praise of the Humble Document Camera
Revisiting a simple edtech tool can help you introduce rigor and engage students more deeply in their lessons. - School Culture
Helping Classmates to Get Along
These tips guide elementary students toward being neighborly with one another, which promotes community and can lead to friendships.409Your content has been saved!
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Digital Storytelling With a Literary Mindset
High school students can explore meaningful topics and meet literacy standards through short-form analytical video projects.243Your content has been saved!
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Using Virtual Visits to Explore Our National Parks
A project-based learning unit integrates design thinking to engage students in addressing challenges facing our national parks.319Your content has been saved!
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Breaking Down the Complex Work of Teaching PBL Into Manageable Chunks
Project-based learning can be daunting, but there are steps teachers can take to overcome the challenges. - Project-Based Learning (PBL)
How to Build a PBL Unit Around a Novel
A project focused on discovery and analysis allows students to read, collaborate, and demonstrate their knowledge as they make their way through a novel. - Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Taking an Incremental Approach to PBL
This framework simplifies the process of setting up a project-based learning unit so that it feels manageable for teachers.300Your content has been saved!
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- Literacy
How to Make Read-Alouds Fun and Effective for All Ages
Well-planned read-alouds can enhance critical thinking, comprehension, and engagement across disciplines—and age levels. - Inquiry-Based Learning
Ideas for Teaching Students About Elections, Even in Polarized Times
Students can get timely exposure to the civic process through interesting activities that encourage them to think about important issues..302Your content has been saved!
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Using Question Cubes to Boost Reading Engagement
This activity gives students the opportunity to collaborate, boosting engagement and deepening their understanding of class texts. - Student Engagement
Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Engagement Strategies That Work
Teachers can use a mix of approaches to overcome students’ attention span limits so they stay engaged in learning.778Your content has been saved!
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Big and Small Strategies to Harness the Power of Peer-to-Peer Teaching
The brains of kids who are teaching peers go into overdrive—boosting retention and understanding. Here’s how to leverage this effect in your classroom.
- Instructional Coaching
How to Plan Effective Professional Development for Instructional Coaches
Instructional coaches need thoughtfully crafted and fruitful training opportunities that meet the specific needs of their work.303Your content has been saved!
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‘Tech It Up’ to Build Staff Excitement Around Technology Integration
To enhance teachers’ tech use in the classroom, instructional coaches need their own training. Here’s a way to make it meaningful and fun.152Your content has been saved!
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6 Schoolwide Strategies to Improve Reading Skills
Helping students build their identities as readers and explicitly teaching the mechanics of reading can yield big gains across grade levels.746Your content has been saved!
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How to Help Teachers Make Smart Edtech Choices
Having too many apps and tools to choose from can be stressful, and coaches can play a key role in reducing that stress.239Your content has been saved!
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How Instructional Specialists Can Build Meaningful Relationships Across Schools
These strategies can help educational specialists become allies and form supportive relationships with teachers, even across multiple campuses355Your content has been saved!
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