- Professional Learning
Research-Based Supports for Algebra Students
Offering effective instructional supports to secondary students in algebra helps build learners’ confidence and math identity.Your content has been saved!
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4 Strategies to Create a Curious Classroom
Teachers can promote curiosity and critical thinking by helping students make sense of new information.Your content has been saved!
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Building a Teaching Portfolio
During job interviews, digital or hard copy portfolios give teachers the opportunity to provide evidence of a student-centered approach to teaching.100Your content has been saved!
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AI Tool Demo: Generating Podcasts About Class Content With NotebookLM
With this advanced tool from Google, teachers can upload sources about a particular topic, then automatically output an interactive podcast with two AI hosts.Your content has been saved!
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What Happened the Year I Banned AI
The choice to keep artificial intelligence tools out of my class has been the most impactful decision that I have made as a teacher.118Your content has been saved!
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Recognizing and Addressing Emotional Overload to Better Support Students
Teachers may misinterpret behaviors as laziness when their students are actually working beyond their emotional limit.108Your content has been saved!
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My 5 Cs of Classroom Management
By setting clear expectations and promoting a sense of connection, teachers can set all students up for success at the beginning of the year.123Your content has been saved!
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Are Robots Friends or Foes?
A project-based learning unit asks second-grade students this and other questions in an engaging hands-on experience.112Your content has been saved!
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6 Essential Tips for New Elementary Teachers
New teachers have a lot to think about as the school year approaches, and focusing on these ideas can help them get off to a good start.131Your content has been saved!
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A Simple Outdoor Activity to Build Collaboration Skills
Taking elementary students outside to work together in a team-based scavenger hunt can help build classroom community.122Your content has been saved!
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Managing Your Class Without Collective Punishment
Even in moments of frustration, teachers can hold disruptive students accountable without punishing the class as a group.2.7kYour content has been saved!
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15 Quick (and Mighty) Retrieval Practices
From concept maps to flash cards to Pictionary, these activities help students reflect on—and remember—what they’ve learned. - Literacy
3 Games to Amp Up Reading Instruction
Gamifying literacy and phonics lessons teaches students valuable social-emotional skills, gives them regular movement breaks, and increases their engagement. - Brain-Based Learning
7 Study Habits to Teach Kids This School Year
Studying is critical to academic success—but many students have never been shown how to do it effectively. - Learning Environments
27 Ways to Optimize Your Classroom Design for Better Learning
A research-based lineup of smart, effective classroom design tips that support deep learning, reduce distraction, and build belonging.
- Assessment
Your Students Struggled on an Assessment—Now What?
You can give an assessment, use the results to design differentiated learning experiences to catch students up, and still keep up with pacing requirements. - Assessment
Setting Up Standards-Based Grading in a Traditional School
Individual teachers may feel like they can’t implement standards-based grading on their own, but an educator who managed it in a variety of schools over a decade explains how it can be done. - Assessment
Representing Student Proficiency and Progress With Visual Rubrics
By creating a visual representation of students’ performance, teachers can help them make sense of their skills and areas for growth.433Your content has been saved!
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‘Proficiency Days’ Are a Great Way to End the School Year
Instead of the end-of-year rush to turn in missing assignments, this district set up a meaningful way to ensure that high school students met standards. - Assessment
Tyler Rablin on Ditching Old Assessment Systems to Build Student Motivation
Frustrated by the narrow lens of traditional grading, this instructional coach and former English teacher redesigned his grade book to encourage authentic student buy-in.
- Research
15 Quick (and Mighty) Retrieval Practices
From concept maps to flash cards to Pictionary, these activities help students reflect on—and remember—what they’ve learned. - Brain-Based Learning
7 Study Habits to Teach Kids This School Year
Studying is critical to academic success—but many students have never been shown how to do it effectively. - Brain-Based Learning
Intentionally Slowing Down to Ensure That Students Learn Material Deeply
Teachers who are tempted to race through the curriculum to cover everything may want to reconsider and slow down a bit so that students can learn the most important content better. - Brain-Based Learning
Helping Elementary Students Improve Their Working Memory
Explicitly teaching brain-based memory strategies can help students build their executive function skills. - Brain-Based Learning
Reducing Math Negativity
Teachers can facilitate positive learning experiences to help students develop favorable perceptions about their math skills.268Your content has been saved!
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- Student Wellness
Using Values-Alignment Messaging to Teach Healthy Digital Habits
Thoughtful phone policies are helpful, but teens need more than rules, and schools can help them build digital self-agency.230Your content has been saved!
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Why This Middle School Principal Memorizes Her Students’ Names
A school leader describes the impact that a personal touch can have on school culture. - Environmental Education
How a School Turns Nature Into the Ultimate Classroom
From interdisciplinary projects to wilderness expeditions, The Greene School is an innovative model for nurturing academic success and student agency. - School Culture
Innovative Ways to Acclimate New Students to Your School
Starting middle and high school is hard—but schools can do a lot to smooth the transition and build belonging from day one. - Student Wellness
3 Ways to Help Students Build Attention Stamina
These simple tools and strategies can improve focus in the classroom.
