- Administration & Leadership
Are You Micromanaging?
Carefully considering these five questions can help leaders understand whether they are empowering staff members—or disregarding their expertise.Your content has been saved!
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Giving Teachers Ownership Over Their Professional Learning
The best kind of professional learning is the kind that teachers actually care about—involving the things they engage with every day.Your content has been saved!
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Experimenting at the End of the School Year
The final weeks of the semester are the perfect time to try different strategies and new tools, and test student-led learning experiences.Your content has been saved!
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Warming Up Cold Calling by Writing Ideas Down First
When students can respond to questions on mini-whiteboards prior to being called on, they feel more prepared—and everyone participates in thinking through the answers.Your content has been saved!
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Building Bridges to Support Grade-Level Transitions
Well-planned meetings between older and younger students can help mitigate anxiety about moving to a new grade.196Your content has been saved!
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Guiding Students to Develop Perseverance
When students focus on progress over immediate performance, success feels more attainable.220Your content has been saved!
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6 Ways to Add Depth to Your ELA Lessons
Teachers can guide students to shift from looking for a right answer to thinking more critically about course content.258Your content has been saved!
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The Philosophy Behind Allowing Retakes
Because student proficiency develops over time, assessment retakes play an important role in accurately measuring learning.856Your content has been saved!
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3 Daily Practices to Build a Learner-Centered Classroom
Teachers can use these ideas to foster a supportive climate for students receiving special education services and their peers.742Your content has been saved!
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How Administrators Can Use Data to Explore Issues of Equity
Accessing a range of data can give leaders a broad understanding of issues affecting the student body, and what to do about them.271Your content has been saved!
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- Technology Integration
Streaming Toward Reading Fluency
When students record themselves reading aloud using an app—and then listen back to reflect on their own pacing and expression—their fluency improves over time. - Brain-Based Learning
Writing Notes by Hand for Better Processing
When teachers regularly pause during lectures so students can synthesize their thoughts with handwritten notes, content is more likely to stick. - ChatGPT & Generative AI
Why and How I’m Limiting Screen Time in My Classroom
Digital tools have uses, but they can also risk reducing the productive struggle students need to build critical thinking skills. - Student Engagement
Why Students Give Up on a Task—and What Teachers Can Do About It
Students often start working on a task, but disengage if it gets difficult. You can use these three tips to encourage them to persist. - The Research Is In
Designing the Ideal Classroom Space
A thoughtfully designed classroom—and lesson—should always take into account the known limits of the student brain, says developmental psychologist Karrie Godwin.
- Special Education
Designing Typing Lessons to Teach Life Skills in Special Education Classrooms
With well-designed, intentional prompts, keyboarding instruction can help students develop several skills at once.848Your content has been saved!
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6 Ways to Center a Paper Notebook
As concerns about technology grow, a familiar tool promises to restore a sense of balance in the classroom. - Technology Integration
The Case for a Smaller Tech Toolbox
To avoid technology overwhelm, a good rule of thumb: Think quality over quantity, and only keep what earns its place.2.5kYour content has been saved!
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Streaming Toward Reading Fluency
When students record themselves reading aloud using an app—and then listen back to reflect on their own pacing and expression—their fluency improves over time. - Technology Integration
Exploring the Dangers of Technology Through Literature
E.M. Forster’s short story ‘The Machine Stops’ can help middle school students assess the impact of over-reliance on digital tools.
- 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. - Teaching Strategies
Unlocking Effortful Thinking by Asking the Right Questions
By crafting a line of questioning around precisely what they want students thinking about, teachers create opportunities for students to process—and better retain—key content.Your content has been saved!
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Podcast: Helping Students Overcome the Forgetting Curve
High school teacher Cathleen Beachboard shares her top three strategies to flatten the dreaded forgetting curve and help students remember what you teach them.
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Helping Students Understand How The Brain Works
These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts learning.6kYour content has been saved!
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18 Prompts to Spark Purposeful Teen Writing
By middle and high school, teens are ready to wrestle with big questions about who they are, who they're becoming, and what they believe.
- Administration & Leadership
Effective Ways to Facilitate PD for Teacher Growth
To help teachers realize their potential, school leaders can create systems that provide relevant feedback, encouragement, and new learning opportunities.4.3kYour content has been saved!
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Making Instructional Coaching Standard for Every Teacher
Instructional coaching works best when it is normalized as part of everyday professional life, not positioned as a corrective measure.5.2kYour content has been saved!
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Applying a UDL Framework to the Coaching Cycle
This three-phase approach to instructional coaching embraces the fact that educators are lifelong learners.4.7kYour content has been saved!
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Facilitating Instructional Rounds for New Staff
Schools can use this protocol to reduce isolation, build trust, and make both veteran and new teachers feel valued.2.7kYour content has been saved!
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Flipping the Lens on Classroom Observations With the ‘Inside-Out’ Method
Quick, low-stakes observations focused on student learning allow administrators to provide teachers with useful feedback on instruction.8.8kYour content has been saved!
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