- Classroom Management
Dealing With Difficult Behaviors in High School
Remaining calm and consistent is crucial in responding to students who flout the rules or refuse to work. Here’s one teacher’s approach.115Your content has been saved!
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Activities That Make Geography Memorable
Exploring maps through games and discussions helps elementary students gain a deep understanding of relationships between places.122Your content has been saved!
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How Battlefield Analysis Supports Strategic Thinking
Examining decisions made in wartime can help middle and high school students strengthen their critical thinking and collaboration skills.124Your content has been saved!
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60-Second Strategy: Mystery Number
Starting class with this fun math review activity gets students out of their seats, boosts their problem-solving skills, and promotes collaboration.Your content has been saved!
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The First 8 Minutes of Class
These ideas can help you make the most of the first few minutes of class and create a routine that gets students thinking and ready to learn. - Differentiated Instruction
7 Ways to Put UDL Into Action in the Elementary Grades
Teachers can design learning experiences with an approach that supports all students where they are and helps them develop transferable skills.518Your content has been saved!
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3 Books That Support Teacher Mindset Going Into the School Year
These books help new educators gain insight into the emotional labor of the profession and prepare for the first day of school and beyond.397Your content has been saved!
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Bringing Abstract Concepts to Life in Science Classes
Acting out skits that provide real-world contexts can help students engage with and understand complicated science content. - Trauma-Informed Practices
Guiding Students Toward Forgiveness Helps Them Refocus on a More Positive Future
Introspective and collaborative tasks can lead learners to view their past hardships with a new perspective that leads to personal growth.490Your content has been saved!
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An Approach to Classroom Management That Builds Students’ Independence
Elementary teachers can empower students to address some of their own needs, allowing for smoother lessons and more time spent learning.2.7kYour content has been saved!
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- Brain-Based Learning
4 Ways to Design Instruction for the Teenage Brain
These strategies, derived from Daniel Siegel’s book Brainstorm, can help you engage students’ attention and willingness to work. - The Research Is In
When Good Research Gets Implemented Badly
As brilliant ideas move from academic journals into classrooms, many important nuances are lost. - Classroom Management
15 Effective Ways to Manage Dysregulated Students
Teachers are seeing more big emotions and disruptive behavior in early elementary classrooms. These practical strategies can help youngsters reflect, reset, and repair. - New Teachers
9 Evidence-Based Ways to Improve Your Classroom Directions
Vague directions, complicated explanations, and poorly sequenced tasks can overwhelm students. These research-backed strategies can help. - Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
Podcast: 3 Outstanding Community-Building Activities for Back to School
Kick off the new school year by building genuine connections among your students, helping them feel they belong (and matter) in your classroom community.
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- AI in Education
Is Your Assignment Vulnerable to AI?
Instead of starting with the question ‘can AI do this?,’ it may be more helpful to ask, ‘What thinking is required of students?’3.6kYour content has been saved!
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The Endless Pile: How to Mitigate Grading Woes
By reserving grades for work that truly measures progress and using feedback for everything else, teachers can reduce stress and give students clear guidance for growth. - Literacy
A Case for Conferencing With Students Instead of Giving Written Feedback
Holding a 15-minute meeting with each student creates a chance to discuss what’s working in their writing and what they think about it. - Assessment
4 Ways to Get Students to Submit Assignments on Time More Often
Teachers can reduce the amount of late work they need to chase down and ensure that students get the feedback they need to improve. - Assessment
4 Questions That Spurred Real Innovation in My Grade Book
If you’ve ever wondered whether your grades really reflect student learning, these questions might help you get systematic about developing a new framework.
- Creativity
Setting Up Constraints to Inspire Creative Thinking
When students have less to work with, they approach STEM challenges in new and different ways. - Project-Based Learning (PBL)
High-Quality Learning With Small-Scale PBL
STEM teachers can try this five-day project-based learning cycle to give students a meaningful experience on a short timeline.3.6kYour content has been saved!
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Exploring the Science of Flight With Model Rockets and Airplanes
These hands-on projects are a highly engaging way for high school students to explore aerodynamics and physics.1.2kYour content has been saved!
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A STEM-Focused Mentoring Program for High School Students
Learning from professionals in specialized fields allows students to acquire transferable skills that can support them in their future careers.654Your content has been saved!
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Designing Outdoor STEM Learning for Elementary Students
A framework for turning nearby trails, campus green spaces, and community sites into classrooms.2.9kYour content has been saved!
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- Teacher Wellness
Podcast: 11 Ways to Improve Teacher Well-Being
Laurie Santos, the renowned Yale professor, cognitive scientist, and host of The Happiness Lab, shares a science-backed toolkit for busy educators in need of a wellness tune-up.
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Helping Students Feel Safe in an Uncertain World
There’s no magic strategy for living through hard times, but educators can support students by creating spaces that feel safe and joyful.2.5kYour content has been saved!
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How to Teach Kids to Be Kind to Themselves
Kindness toward others is often taught in elementary school, but it’s also important for students to extend it to themselves.11.2kYour content has been saved!
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How Tech Tools Can Simplify and Improve Your Multi-Tiered System of Supports
This middle school made gains in supporting students by setting up shared spreadsheets, digital referral forms, and predictable routines.2.3kYour content has been saved!
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The Research on Protecting Teacher Well-Being
Laurie Santos, host of the popular podcast The Happiness Lab, on how our minds deceive us, why "time affluence" matters, and what we can do to reset our parasympathetic nervous system.53.8kYour content has been saved!
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