- Literacy
‘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.210Your content has been saved!
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5 Research-Based Studying Strategies for High School Students
Integrating active recall and synthesis into the process of reviewing for exams helps students study more productively.215Your content has been saved!
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Refocus Students With Silent Brain Breaks
These three activities allow early elementary students to play while also creating a sense of calm they carry back into learning.400Your content has been saved!
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Working Toward Instructional Equity for All
A focus on the science of learning has helped this district shrink achievement and opportunity gaps—by making sure every student is engaged in effortful thinking.Your content has been saved!
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Designing Classroom Accommodations That Help Students With Disabilities Succeed in College
Teachers can support students during the final stages of college preparation by viewing supports through a transition lens.353Your content has been saved!
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Exploration-Based Learning in Preschool
Designing inquiry around student curiosity allows them learn language, math, and SEL skills through investigations of their environment.320Your content has been saved!
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Bringing Your Elementary Tech Class Outdoors
These ideas for both digital and analog lessons get kids outside while still learning important tech skills.226Your content has been saved!
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Making Reading Personal by Identifying Purpose
When students reflect on their reason for engaging with a text, they can develop a stronger understanding of it.1.2kYour content has been saved!
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Fun End-of-Year Assessments for Art Classes
Teacher can try incorporating scavenger hunts and a Pictionary-style tournament to get students to show what they know.471Your content has been saved!
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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.474Your content has been saved!
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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. - 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.22kYour 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.16kYour 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.
- Assessment
The Philosophy Behind Allowing Retakes
Because student proficiency develops over time, assessment retakes play an important role in accurately measuring learning.1.9kYour 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.9kYour 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.5.3kYour 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.2.2kYour 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.525Your 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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- Critical Thinking
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.1.8kYour content has been saved!
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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.16kYour 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.3.7kYour 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.2.7kYour 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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