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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.Your content has been saved!
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Using Restorative Conversations for Effective Classroom Management
Tips for teachers who are willing to trade consequence-based control for a framework of calm observation, genuine curiosity, and honest impact.Your content has been saved!
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A Case for Human Evaluation of Student Work
A teacher who is optimistic about AI’s potential in education is nevertheless adamant about not using it to give students feedback.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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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.Your content has been saved!
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Podcast: 14 Excellent Ways to End the School Year
Looking for creative ways to celebrate the last weeks of school? Here’s a toolkit of delightful, memorable activities from veteran K-12 teachers.
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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.293Your content has been saved!
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Meeting Learning Goals Right Up to the End of the Year
Teachers can help students continue to practice grade-level content while still leaning into the excitement of the upcoming break. - Curriculum Planning
A Project to Combat End-of-Year Disengagement in Social Studies
A low-stakes assignment culminating in an investigative paper has worked wonders in this teacher’s AP World History classroom.Your 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.
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- 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
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.17.5kYour 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. - Classroom Management
Low-Lift Elementary Classroom Routines That Get Students Ready to Learn
Teachers can foster a healthy classroom culture with these easy-to-plan activities that spark thinking, sharing, and engagement.9.1kYour content has been saved!
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- Project-Based Learning (PBL)
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.565Your content has been saved!
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Implementing a PBL Design Challenge in Your School
A weeklong, schoolwide project-based learning challenge encourages students to try to tackle meaningful problems.11kYour content has been saved!
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Implementing PBL in Physical Education
At its core, high-quality PBL uses content to teach, build, and assess skills like collaboration and problem-solving—and PE classes are a natural place to continue this work.1.4kYour content has been saved!
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Building PBL Systems That Really Encourage Students to Lead
Teachers can set up effective systems for project-based learning that support students in assuming more agency in their work.6.2kYour content has been saved!
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How to Navigate Student Absences During PBL Units
When absences accumulate, teachers can implement specific strategies so that all students complete necessary work.2.4kYour content has been saved!
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- Differentiated Instruction
Podcast: One Task, Many Doors: A More Effective Way to Differentiate
Three low-prep ways to differentiate instruction that keep kids learning together.
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A Streamlined Strategy for Differentiating Instruction
This framework for offering students choices helps teachers personalize learning opportunities without creating separate lessons for each student.5.1kYour content has been saved!
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How to Scaffold Learning and Maintain Rigor
A myriad of tools and strategies that support learning and student agency are also essential to maintaining rigor.8.2kYour content has been saved!
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How to Use Hexagonal Thinking in Any Content Area
This engaging activity supports students in organizing their thoughts in a multidimensional way, helping to cement their understanding. - Teaching Strategies
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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- Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
Nature-Based Activities for Preschool
When young children engage in learning that connects them to the natural world, they experience social and emotional benefits.2kYour content has been saved!
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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. - Learning Environments
An Unconventional Seating Plan Designed to Benefit Focus and Learning
After years of search and experimentation, this teacher finally hit on a room layout that allowed for efficient shifting between whole class, small group, and independent work. - 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.3.4kYour content has been saved!
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