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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.217Your content has been saved!
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12 Ways to Activate Your Students’ Prior Knowledge
Threading prior knowledge into new material makes for more durable learning. Here are 12 research-backed, teacher-tested strategies to help kids unpack what they already know.245Your content has been saved!
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How to Really Prepare Students for State Tests
A high school teacher uses her state’s testing blueprint to give students practice with the standards and question types they’ll encounter most frequently.173Your content has been saved!
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Weaving Conversation Skills Into High School Art Class
When students’ hands are busy with a simple craft activity, they feel more comfortable moving from digital to face-to-face conversations.Your 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.141Your content has been saved!
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Facilitating Instructional Rounds for New Staff
Schools can use this protocol to reduce isolation, build trust, and make both veteran and new teachers feel valued.182Your content has been saved!
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Is Your Math Homework Worth Doing?
After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.477Your content has been saved!
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Student Engagement as an Aspect of Classroom Management
An educator whose class rules once ‘looked like the Ten Commandments’ has found that fostering intellectual engagement is much more effective for maintaining order.603Your content has been saved!
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How to Stay Organized as a Special Education Teacher
Rolling carts, file folders, QR codes, and a little bit of weekly upkeep make a huge difference.376Your 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.779Your content has been saved!
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11 Classroom Management Tweaks You Don’t Learn in Teacher Prep
Over time, every teacher makes small changes that have a big impact on how their classes run. A veteran teacher shares the hacks that work for him. - Teacher Wellness
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.22kYour content has been saved!
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Leveraging Prior Knowledge to Build Understanding
By guiding students through developing their own understanding of core concepts, teachers ensure that the whole class is starting on a strong foundation.21kYour content has been saved!
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12 Graphic Novels About Mental Health
These books help students explore conditions that they or their peers may be experiencing, such as depression and anxiety. - Formative Assessment
29 High-Impact Formative Assessment Strategies
These versatile strategies—from brain dumps to speed sharing—help students track their own progress while informing your next instructional steps.12.8kYour content has been saved!
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A Virtual Collaboration Project Centered on American Democracy
In a program sponsored by the Smithsonian, students in two different parts of the country interact to explore a civics question that is meaningful to both groups.1kYour content has been saved!
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Problem-Based Learning and Future-Ready Skills
Well-designed projects help students build valuable skills such as collaboration, critical thinking, and communication.5.2kYour content has been saved!
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Boosting Midyear Engagement With Place-Based PBL
High school teachers can build projects around issues in the local community to motivate students before and after winter break.3.1kYour content has been saved!
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Making Project-Based Learning More Impactful by Emphasizing Depth Over Speed
Teachers can help students get the most out of PBL by focusing on the development of effective learning habits.2.5kYour content has been saved!
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Bringing Together Cosplay and Coding in High School
In this class, students learn engineering skills as well as costume design and event planning, culminating in a convention that’s open to the whole community.
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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.1.1kYour 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.1.2kYour 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.1.2kYour 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.3.3kYour content has been saved!
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Connecting Science to Problem-Solving in the Real World
Tackling authentic problems in science class helps students see the link between the lab and the challenges facing our world—and builds multiple skills along the way.
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Setting Up Professional Development to Strengthen the Whole Teacher
School leaders can work to ensure that PD helps teachers strengthen pedagogy and classroom culture, and that focuses on teacher well-being.1.8kYour content has been saved!
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Have Teachers Reached App Overload?
Educators are overwhelmed by an avalanche of tools. The solution isn’t zero tech, but the question of balance is critical.2.8kYour content has been saved!
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The Challenges of Leading a Large School
Three principals discuss the necessity of delegating work effectively—and how they strive to be a steady, known presence for students.847Your content has been saved!
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Making Committee Work More Efficient
Principals can help teachers actively contribute to schoolwide projects by shifting the structure of their staff meetings.1.3kYour content has been saved!
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Flipping the Lens on Classroom Observations With the ‘Inside-Out’ Method
Quick, low-stakes observations focused on student learning allow administrators to provide teachers with useful feedback on instruction.6.7kYour content has been saved!
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