- Technology Integration
27 Quick Win, Low-Prep Ways to Integrate Tech This Year
These teacher-tested activities use free or familiar tools to help students think critically, create meaningfully, and collaborate with each other.122Your content has been saved!
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How Forward-Thinking Schools Are Shaping the Future of AI in Education
Districts across the country are creating new leadership roles, identifying best practices, and writing flexible policies to prepare students and teachers for an AI-driven world.Your content has been saved!
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Schools Try AI as Student Mental Health Needs Surge
Social-emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs are outpacing what schools can provide. Can technology—namely AI—step in to help?107Your content has been saved!
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Using ‘Tell Me More’ Prompts to Make Learning Stick
Asking students to explain how they arrived at an answer is a powerful strategy for making a concept more memorable.Your content has been saved!
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5 Research-Backed Literacy Strategies That Go Beyond Phonics
Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are grounded in science and tested by expert educators.123Your content has been saved!
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13 Super-Quick Formative Assessments
Teachers can use these techniques to gauge students’ understanding mid-lesson and then decide whether to reteach or press ahead.112Your content has been saved!
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A Simple and Effective Way to Teach Annotation
Try a straightforward three-step strategy to help students get comfortable with exploring challenging reading assignments.107Your content has been saved!
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Surveying Students Regularly Can Yield Valuable Connections
Making a habit of surveying students provides a wealth of information about their goals, challenges, and everyday lives. - Literacy
Using Picture Books to Support Meaning-Making in the Early Grades
Early childhood teachers can guide students in exploring how to communicate meaningful events and feelings even before they can write.120Your content has been saved!
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How Meditation Helps Me Teach a Tricky Physics Concept
Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own breathing.110Your content has been saved!
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- The Research Is In
15 Tips to Align Your Teaching With Brain Science
A comprehensive guide to applying the latest insight from neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science to improve your instruction. - Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
A Fred Rogers–Inspired Approach to SEL
Elementary teachers can focus on these fundamentals of child development to support social and emotional learning. - Media Literacy
Real, Fake, or Deepfake? This Lesson Helps Students Decide
Students examine videos and online information to investigate what is real and what is not in this engaging lesson.1.3kYour content has been saved!
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8 AI Tools That Can Help Generate Ideas for Your Classroom
These educator-tested platforms can help you create instructional materials and develop ideas for lessons—and they require little to no tech savvy. - Student Engagement
4 Ways to Guide Disengaged Students to Try Again
There are many reasons why students disengage in school. The tips here are not a panacea, but both research and teacher experience demonstrate that they can help.
- Assessment
Translating Standards Into Student-Friendly Terms
Designing an effective assessment requires first deconstructing the standards into clear criteria of success that students can understand.246Your content has been saved!
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8 Creative Performance Tasks for World Language Classes
Try these ideas to move from vocabulary quizzes to activities where students communicate in real-world situations.622Your content has been saved!
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Solidifying Core Concepts With Examples and Non-Examples
Asking students to identify an example of what something is—and importantly, what it isn’t—helps establish clarity and leaves little room for misconception.Your content has been saved!
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Helping Students Look Beyond Grades With Visual Rubrics
When students see their content mastery mapped out, they’re more likely to understand their proficiency—and take ownership of their progress.Your content has been saved!
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Crafting Data-Driven Narratives About Students
Telling stories with and about data helps students better see themselves as learners and helps teachers center them in the classroom.415Your content has been saved!
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- English Language Learners
Adapting Gradual Release of Responsibility for English Language Learners
This model provides scaffolded active engagement and opportunities for guided practice to help students master new skills.237Your content has been saved!
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Fun Fall Math Activities for Kindergarten
Implementing seasonal math strategies in the fall is a simple yet powerful way to build early mathematical understanding.207Your content has been saved!
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Making Learning More Playful for Teens
A sense of joy, when combined with rigor and purpose, creates a classroom community where middle and high school students thrive.Your content has been saved!
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4 Ways to Guide Disengaged Students to Try Again
There are many reasons why students disengage in school. The tips here are not a panacea, but both research and teacher experience demonstrate that they can help. - Student Engagement
Boosting Engagement in Biology With Storylines
Organizing curriculum around a central story motivates students to advance the narrative while mastering advanced material.335Your content has been saved!
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- Teacher Wellness
How I’ve Sustained a Long Teaching Career
A veteran teacher shares three things she keeps in mind to avoid burnout and maintain her love for the profession.2.6kYour content has been saved!
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3 Ways to Sustain Joy in School Leadership
Setting boundaries, seeking out connection, and prioritizing time with family can make a principal’s job more sustainable.356Your content has been saved!
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How School Leaders Can Help Teachers Free Up Time for Planning and Breaks
Creative ideas and scheduling suggestions from three principals who are committed to making work easier for educators.236Your content has been saved!
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How to Cope With the Tragic Loss of a Student
Two school counselors share advice for educators on how to support students when a peer passes away.165Your content has been saved!
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30 Quick Tips for New Teachers
There’s no magic formula for getting through your first year, but these pointers will help you keep perspective and carry on.
