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Encouraging Creativity and Deep Reflection Through Annotation
Tips and real-life examples show how teachers can guide students to create genuinely useful artifacts of analysis and interpretation.Your content has been saved!
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Keeping Students Engaged at the End of the Year
Early elementary teachers can use these ideas to keep things exciting and manage big feelings as students prepare for summer and a new grade.Your content has been saved!
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Leading Your Classroom With Intentional Warmth
Teachers can create welcoming, safe spaces while still maintaining high expectations and holding students accountable.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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Are You Micromanaging?
Carefully considering these five questions can help leaders understand whether they are empowering staff members—or disregarding their expertise.554Your 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.340Your 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.630Your 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.432Your 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.1.2kYour 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.471Your 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. - 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. - 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.21.2kYour content has been saved!
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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.12.8kYour 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.8.7kYour 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.5.2kYour content has been saved!
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How to Co-create a Rubric With Elementary Students
Teachers can include students in the process of designing a tool to measure their understanding of content—an additional learning opportunity.2.1kYour content has been saved!
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How to Accurately Document Preschool Students’ Growth
Young students may repeatedly show progress and regression in skill development, and capturing their learning amid this variability is a challenge.2.4kYour content has been saved!
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- Administration & Leadership
A STEM-Focused Mentoring Program for High School Students
Learning from professionals in specialized fields allows students to acquire transferable skills that can support them in their future careers.511Your content has been saved!
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Designing Outdoor STEM Learning for Elementary Students
A framework for turning nearby trails, campus green spaces, and community sites into classrooms.2.5kYour content has been saved!
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Gardens for All Types of Classrooms
Depending on your specific needs, it's possible to create an engaging, manageable, and successful garden experience for students in any grade.1.4kYour content has been saved!
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How STEM Projects Support Belonging in Middle School
When students engage in hands-on, collaborative problem-solving, they see themselves as essential to their classroom community.1.4kYour content has been saved!
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9 Ways to Teach Spatial Thinking Across the Curriculum
Strong spatial skills are critical for everyday tasks and across many careers—they also strengthen students’ math performance.3.6kYour content has been saved!
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- 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.12.8kYour content has been saved!
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A Multisensory Approach to Literacy in Kindergarten
Teachers can help students develop phonemic awareness with these playful activities that engage multiple sensory pathways.3.3kYour content has been saved!
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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.2.6kYour content has been saved!
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Improving Instructional Practices Through Collaboration
Both veteran and early-career educators can openly share their expertise to make teaching more effective and sustainable.1.9kYour content has been saved!
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An Effective Strategy for Teaching With Videos
Rather than showing long videos, teachers should design lessons that use clips as resources to spur class discussion.
