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Using Clubs to Foster Real-World Skills
Elementary teachers can create authentic contexts for students to practice critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.Your content has been saved!
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Streamlining Instructional Coaching With Tech for Systemwide Change
With the right tools, you can elevate coaching from an individual practice and turn it into a school improvement engine.345Your content has been saved!
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Using Watercolors to Teach Mood and Tone
When students approach abstract concepts through hands-on activities like painting, their literary analysis skills improve—and their writing does, too.Your content has been saved!
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Avoiding Social Media Burnout as a Teacher
By approaching online platforms with intention, teachers can keep up with new ideas without draining all their attention and energy. - Curriculum Planning
Fostering Global Competency in Your Classroom
Teachers in all content areas can offer students pathways to consider the roles they will play as members of an interconnected global community.411Your content has been saved!
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Setting Up Constraints to Inspire Creative Thinking
When students have less to work with, they approach STEM challenges in new and different ways. - Administration & Leadership
Protecting Your Time and Attention as a New Leader
These four mental models can help school leaders prioritize their responsibilities, identifying what not to do in order to be more effective.1.4kYour content has been saved!
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Uncovering Emotion in Shakespeare Texts
High school students can more confidently tackle complex language by focusing on how a character is feeling.681Your content has been saved!
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An Approach to Structured Literacy for Older Struggling Readers
Teachers can use AI to generate age-appropriate leveled texts that encourage reading skills development.3kYour content has been saved!
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The IKEA Effect: You Built It, You’re Invested in It
People become more invested when they help shape the systems around them, and teachers and school leaders can use that to create a strong school culture. - Literacy
Using Movement as an Instructional Tool in Literacy
When kids are able to move, they learn better. Here's how to give young students more opportunities to move throughout lessons. - Education Trends
The 2025–26 School Year in Review, From Your Point of View
Spirited discussions, light bulb moments, and the occasional hot take: Here’s what got you—our educator community—buzzing this year. - Literacy
Targeted Exercises That Develop Students’ Revision Skills
Across grades 3–12, students often struggle to revise their writing. Having them focus on one issue at a time helps them develop this invaluable skill. - Teacher Wellness
Simple Nervous System Regulation Practices for Teachers
These micro-routines for adults are grounded in neuroscience and generally take only one to two minutes each.6.2kYour content has been saved!
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6 Ways to Implement Integrated Studies as a Music Teacher
Adding themes from different content areas into music lessons helps maximize learning and provides opportunities for collaboration with other educators.968Your content has been saved!
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Teaching Students How to Synthesize Using Art and Music
Middle and high school teachers can use these ideas to guide students to engage with and analyze diverse sets of source documents.1.7kYour content has been saved!
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How to Adapt ‘Julius Caesar’ for Upper Elementary Students
Immersing students in the history and politics of ancient Rome helps them come to a rich understanding of Shakespeare’s play.772Your content has been saved!
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Using Multigenre Picture Books in Middle School
Books that convey nonfiction topics through poems and images help students learn to process information, a skill they can transfer to other texts.1.6kYour content has been saved!
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Combining Science and Music for Deeper Learning
Elementary music teachers can incorporate scientific concepts into lessons so students get a multilayered learning experience.
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Focusing Attention With a Student-Led Recall Activity
By providing every student with an opportunity to actively remember yesterday’s lesson, teachers can set the stage for today’s success.Your content has been saved!
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Takeaways From an Edutopia Jam Session on Retrieval Practice
Two of the forum’s moderators share further ideas on how teachers can implement this research-backed strategy. - Brain-Based Learning
How Verbal Rehearsal Can Bridge the Gap Between Speaking and Writing
These strategies for having students talk out their writing help them develop the skills to convey their thoughts on paper.4.7kYour content has been saved!
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Why Writing by Hand Beats Typing (in 6 Charts)
Typing may be faster, but the research shows that handwriting engages our brains in richer, more meaningful ways. - Brain-Based Learning
What to Do When Students See Schoolwork as Too Challenging
Students often don’t measure academic difficulty objectively—they measure it emotionally. Teachers can tap into research to provide the resources and support students need to complete assignments.
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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.2kYour 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.11kYour 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.2.1kYour 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.53.4kYour content has been saved!
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