- Student Voice
Making Schoolwide Use of Student Surveys
Detailed feedback from students about what helps them learn can shape schools’ instructional initiatives and goals.Your content has been saved!
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Collaborative Activities That Inspire Students to Write
Theater-style games allow students to work together to generate ideas and develop narratives.Your content has been saved!
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Taking a Deeper Look at Student Data
Acting as data detectives, school leaders and teachers can work together to better understand student needs.Your content has been saved!
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How Short, Low-Stakes Writing Challenges Build More Confident Writers
Using a tech tool that gamifies writing helps students grow together, celebrate each other’s work, and hone their emerging skills.Your content has been saved!
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Strategies That Empower Students to Answer Questions When Called Upon
When students feel like they don’t know the answer to a question, engaging in low-risk conversations can help them find their way.356Your content has been saved!
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Keeping Research Skills Relevant in the Age of AI
By focusing on research separately from writing, this assignment guides students to find quality primary and secondary sources.214Your content has been saved!
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5 Strategies to Help Students End the Year With Calm Confidence
Elementary teachers can help ease the stress of the final weeks of school by teaching students SEL skills they can use anywhere.283Your content has been saved!
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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.376Your content has been saved!
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5 Strategies to Help Neurodivergent Students Find Success in Math
With a few instructional shifts, teachers can create classrooms that better encourage confidence and academic growth.345Your content has been saved!
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Using Technology to Help Students Develop College and Career Skills
A variety of tech tools can help students gain experience with formal business practices related to communication and time management.286Your content has been saved!
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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
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. - Classroom Management
A 6-Step Approach to Proactive Classroom Management
This framework helps teachers decide which behaviors to ignore and which ones need to be addressed—and how to best address them.19.2kYour content has been saved!
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Getting Teens Hooked on Books With First Chapter Fridays
By reading aloud in middle and high school, teachers can expose students to new ideas, genres, and authors—and get them excited about books. - Research
Angela Duckworth: Where There’s a Will There’s a Way Out
The renowned author and researcher explains how student willpower stacks up against powerful tools like cell phones and AI chatbots.
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Fun End-of-Year Assessments for Art Classes
Teacher can try incorporating scavenger hunts and a Pictionary-style tournament to get students to show what they know.739Your 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.2.2kYour content has been saved!
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How to Avoid Rushing—a Pitfall for Even the Most Experienced Teachers
There are always too many standards to meet and assignments to grade. These strategies can help you reject haste in favor of care and clarity. - Homework
Reducing Homework by Ensuring That More of the Learning Happens in Class
For a high school physics teacher, assigning less homework meant comprehensively revamping assessments and how each class session was set up.9.2kYour content has been saved!
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How to Turn Test Retakes Into a Classroom Staple
Allowing retakes gives students another chance to learn and to demonstrate learning—the challenge is making redos work within the schedule.5.4kYour content has been saved!
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Using Louis Armstrong’s Scat Singing to Build Literacy Skills
This ‘scat-step-segment’ routine helps students experience language in a fun, musical way that feels natural to them.632Your content has been saved!
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Making Student Thinking Visible During Writing Assignments
This update on the old-school strategy of using index cards to collect textual evidence helps students slow down and focus on each stage of the writing process. - Literacy
The Benefits of Teaching Morphology in the Early Elementary Grades
Showing young learners how to break words down into their smallest parts strengthens vocabulary, comprehension, and decoding.1.8kYour content has been saved!
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‘Is This Anything?’
These low-stakes writing activities can be used across content areas to help high school students recognize that their ideas have value. - Literacy
Making Reading Personal by Identifying Purpose
When students reflect on their reason for engaging with a text, they can develop a stronger understanding of it.2.2kYour content has been saved!
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- Formative Assessment
How to Create Highly Effective, Discussion-Worthy Multiple-Choice Questions
Well-written multiple-choice items can deepen thinking and learning, rather than simply challenging students to recall basic facts. - Formative Assessment
Implementing a ‘Halftime Ticket’ to Gauge Understanding
Teachers can borrow the idea of halftime from sports by shifting exit tickets to earlier in the class, assessing how well students understand a lesson—and what they need to get the win. - Teaching Strategies
Making the Most of Learning Objectives
Asking students to unpack learning objectives with a quick routine helps them connect prior knowledge and feel more prepared for the day’s lesson.23.2kYour content has been saved!
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How to Build Review Activities Into Daily Lessons
When teachers revisit earlier lessons in small, structured ways, students feel more confident on assessments—and retain the content better.7.6kYour content has been saved!
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Easy Ways to Have Students Review Material Frequently
Students retain information better when they have consistent opportunities to engage with previously taught content.
