- Professional Learning
6 Common Teacher Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them
From rushing through prep to misjudging students’ readiness for a task to teaching the way they were taught, experienced teachers talk about some of the mistakes they’ve made.Your content has been saved!
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Guiding Students to Receive Feedback as Information to Improve Their Skills
Students may take feedback from teachers or peers as a personal judgement unless it is intentionally focused on their work.Your content has been saved!
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How Teachers Can Collaborate Effectively With Paraprofessionals
Paraprofessionals are an invaluable resource in a partnership that strengthens instructional support and enhances student success.Your content has been saved!
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Go-to Activities for Fast Finishers
Offering fun designated extension activities means the learning continues, even for the speediest students.Your content has been saved!
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Podcast: Smart Strategies to Improve Your Scaffolding
Evidence-backed tips to support students as they learn new or complex material—from a UCLA instructor and former high school teacher.
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Writing Prompts That Tap Into Springtime Energy
Upper elementary teachers can channel students’ excitement around the changing season into thoughtful writing that incorporates all five senses. - Administration & Leadership
Applying a UDL Framework to the Coaching Cycle
This three-phase approach to instructional coaching embraces the fact that educators are lifelong learners.220Your content has been saved!
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Putting ChatGPT’s Study Mode Through Its Paces
The team behind ChatGPT admits the standard version can be used as an ‘answer machine.’ Is the new Study Mode feature any better?922Your content has been saved!
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How to Create a Crisis Handbook to Prepare Your School for Emergencies
As a school leader, you can’t anticipate when a disaster may happen, but you can develop systems to help ensure that your staff and families are prepared.458Your content has been saved!
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5 Ways to Develop Students’ Social and Emotional Skills in Music Class
These performance-based activities can be fun for students and provide opportunities for them to develop empathy.497Your content has been saved!
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- Literacy
Just Like Phonics, Comprehension Requires Explicit Teaching
Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.56.3kYour content has been saved!
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60-Second Strategy: Playing Card Table Groups
Having students draw playing cards to randomize seating for small groups each week ensures that everyone experiences working with a variety of classmates.34.3kYour content has been saved!
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Making Use of a Worked Example to Improve Learning
By explicitly modeling each step of a problem and gradually fading away supports, teachers can give students a clear path to mastering new content.15.4kYour content has been saved!
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How to Decide What to Do After Your Formative Assessment
You’ve checked for understanding—now you can use this framework to understand what students’ confusion is telling you, and how you can adjust course. - Critical Thinking
6 Routines to Get Students Unstuck
When students are grasping at straws, these self-directed strategies help them to pause, make a plan, and pivot more effectively.13kYour 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.1.1kYour 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. - Integrated Studies
A Hands-On Approach to Interdisciplinary Learning
By integrating multiple subjects in a cohesive project, teachers can empower students to think flexibly and persist through challenges. - Project-Based Learning (PBL)
7 Projects Teachers Stand By
Planning for projects can be difficult and time-consuming. This list of teacher-tested projects—complete with printable resources—should offer a big head start. - Integrated Studies
Celebrating Pi Day Across the Curriculum
Engaging, informative Pi Day activities designed for middle school math, ELA, science, and social studies.
- Differentiated Instruction
4 High-Quality Math Enrichment Tasks
These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths. - Differentiated Instruction
4 Ways to Make Story Problems More Engaging and Accessible
Four simple strategies—beginning with an image, previewing vocabulary, omitting the numbers, and offering number sets—can have a big impact on learning.2.2kYour content has been saved!
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Taking Your Read-Alouds From Interactive to Immersive
Story time is a highlight of the day for many young students, and teachers can boost engagement even further by adding costumes and sound effects.3.5kYour content has been saved!
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A 6-Step Plan for Differentiated Instruction
Middle school teachers can follow a straightforward method that facilitates customization of support for students.4.4kYour content has been saved!
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How to Differentiate Without Splitting Students Up
Advice for teachers who want to make sure everyone in their classroom works and learns in tandem.80.7kYour content has been saved!
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- Classroom Management
All the Reasons for Seating Students in Groups of 3
This desk arrangement facilitates peer discussions and supports effective collaborative and independent work. And students prefer it. - Learning Environments
Supporting Students to Study Abroad in High School
Studying abroad can be a transformative experience, and there are many resources and scholarships available for students who want to pursue it.3.2kYour content has been saved!
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3 Ways to Reimagine Your Learning Wall
Teachers can borrow a few ideas from museum displays to enhance their wall space dedicated to objectives and other learning processes. - Learning Environments
Podcast: A Flexible Seating Arrangement That Teachers Love
After trying numerous seating arrangements—including rows, blocks, and U shapes—this teacher stumbled on a desk layout that outperformed them all. Here’s how it works.
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11 Smart Student Desk Layouts
How classroom seating—from traditional rows to Socratic circles and L-shaped clusters—alters classroom dynamics and shapes learning outcomes.
