Recalling a time when interdisciplinary teaching was common, Lauren Brown suggests ways teachers can revive a practice that emphasizes knowledge-based learning.

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06.10.2025

STEM Project Ideas to Recycle, Reuse & Reduce Plastic Waste

Discarded microplastics are everywhere, including inside us. STEM projects can help students explore ways to increase recycling, reusing and reducing plastic.

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03.10.2025

Positively Influence Student Learning and Classroom Behavior

The Tactical Teacher helps readers delve into all crucial methods for positively leveraging student learning, classroom behavior, and relationship development.

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03.10.2025

Teaching Math Intervention to Engage Students Who Struggle

In her book on math intervention, Tapper offers a Math Wars lesson structure. Our reviewer found it accessible, comprehensive and based on proven strategies.

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01.10.2025

Why Puberty Today Isn't What It Used to Be

In an interview with Elaine Griffin, Dr. Cara Natterson shares how parents can support children and youth through the complicated landscape of modern puberty.

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29.09.2025

How We Can Help Students Discover Their Leadership Skills

The authors believe every student has the potential to be a leader. When everyone realizes this potential, classrooms become more positive, productive places.

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26.09.2025

Hands-On Guide to Creating Organized, Effective Instruction

The Teacher Clarity Playbook doesn't just tell you why clarity matters. It shows you how to achieve it step by step with all the templates and examples you need

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26.09.2025

Some Surprising Research About Students and Motivation

Dr. David Yeager’s book "10 to 25" uses groundbreaking research, case studies, and real-life scenarios to challenge educators and parents to rethink motivation.

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25.09.2025

What I Am Pledging When I Pledge Allegiance at School

For Dina Strasser the Pledge is not a real-time reflection of America's status. It's affirmation of the "liberty and justice for all" towards which we strive.

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22.09.2025

Planning and Adjusting Lesson Plans for Successful Pacing

Middle school teacher Laurie Miller Hornik shares six pacing techniques she uses to help make sure her lessons have well-timed beginnings, middles, and ends.

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19.09.2025

Finding Your Path as a Woman in School Leadership

Finding Your Path as a Woman in School Leadership is an accessible mentorship resource for women seeking to enhance their leadership skills and effectiveness.

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19.09.2025

Connecting Literacy Instruction to the Science of Learning

Wexler firmly supports SoR but believes a content-rich curriculum is essential to build the background knowledge students need to understand more complex texts.

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17.09.2025

Making the Most of Your Modern School Librarian

Today's school librarian is an advocate for joyful reading and a supporter and provider of many meaningful learning opportunities, writes Jennifer Sniadecki.

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15.09.2025

Thinking Classroom Design Replaces Compliance with Curiosity

When teachers build classrooms around how students think, they unlock a learning environment where curiosity replaces compliance, and excitement replaces dread.

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12.09.2025

Introduce Middle Grades Readers to People with Down Syndrome

Melissa Hart's Down Syndrome Out Loud introduces middle graders to contemporary people with Down syndrome and to an overview of the condition and its effects.

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12.09.2025

The Missing Link to Help Them Think: SEL and Exec. Function

The Missing Link to Help Them Think presents the integral links between SEL and executive functions, explaining how to create the bridge between the concepts.

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10.09.2025

Fresh Fiction for Class Libraries in the New School Year

The new school year is Kasey Short’s favorite time to update her class and school libraries and create lists full of new fiction books for students to explore.

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08.09.2025

Building Classroom Community Now and Through the Year

Each year our mission is to build community so that middle schoolers can make friends, learn, and thrive. Megan Kelly shares activities to foster this process.

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04.09.2025

A Framework for Effective Co-Teaching Relationships

The Co-Teaching Power Zone offers a framework to navigate complexities of co-teaching, emphasizing building effective partnerships to enhance student learning.

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04.09.2025

2 Resource Books to Engage Gifted & Advanced Middle Graders

Jason S. McIntosh's two books offer PBL and paleontology investigations for advanced middle school students. They include lesson plans, a novel, and much more.

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03.09.2025

The Prepared, Patient, and Persistent Instructional Coach

For instructional coaches to succeed, they need empathy, adaptability, and a toolbox of actionable strategies. Miriam Plotinsky offers keys to being effective.

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02.09.2025

You’re a Teacher Now: What’s Next? Review

You're a Teacher Now: What's Next? is an easy, well-organized read sharing a wide range of proven practices for new teachers, says professor Michelle Schwartze.

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02.09.2025

Use Frontloading Strategies to Help Multilinguals Power Up

Learn how frontloading (pre-teaching key vocabulary, background knowledge and core concepts) scaffolds learning and accelerates the progress of multilinguals.

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02.09.2025

Apply Depth of Knowledge, Cognitive Rigor for Deep Learning

Karin Hess provides clarity and practical tools for teachers seeking to design learning experiences that truly deepen understanding, says NBCT Kathie Palmieri.

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26.08.2025

The Power of Short Form for Growing Student Voice

Teacher and author Kim Culbertson shows how writing 100-word stories can immerse students in a journey of exploration as they discover their own writing voices.

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25.08.2025

Barbara Blackburn: You Are the Key to Your Students’ Success

Dr. Barbara Blackburn's message to teachers is straightforward: On your worst day, you are still someone’s best hope. Read this for strategies and inspiration.

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25.08.2025

How to Spark Student Engagement in Middle School Classrooms

Middle level leader Jennifer Ciok offers a weekly calendar of strategies to increase engagement through storytelling, arts infusion and real world connections.

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25.08.2025

The Essential Toolbox for ELL Teachers

The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox 2.0 is a major update of the popular 1st edition with new strategies & resources to help teachers build an inclusive learning culture.

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25.08.2025

A Collaborative Leadership Model to Turn Your School Around

Turning It Around by Todd Whitaker and Courtney Monterecy is a valuable addition to the literature on school improvement through collaborative leadership.

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25.08.2025

Study Strategies: Proven Ways to Help Students Remember More

Feel-good study methods don't work. Dr. Curtis Chandler shares five proven techniques to help students learn new information and remember it for the long term.

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25.08.2025

7 Essentials Ensure Your School Has a Culture of Belonging

For our students to be well educated, activist citizens who lead fulfilling lives, they need schools that foster a culture of belonging, writes Regie Routman.

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12.08.2025

Build on Turn and Talk to Help ELLs Authentically Converse

Turn and talk is a common teaching practice. But what’s really happening in the conversations? Collaborative language frames can make the talk more meaningful.

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11.08.2025

Bilingual Literacy Strategies for Middle Level Science Labs

MS teacher Enrique Carballo shares how he brings in literacy strategies usually reserved for ELA classrooms and makes them work in his bilingual science labs.

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My Summer of Relaxed and Purposeful Fall Planning

By time-blocking her summer calendar and intentionally carving out space for professional growth, Kathie Palmieri did her most productive fall planning ever.

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5 More Things I Learned Sitting in a Classroom

Sarah Cooper shares 5 things she learned at a summer seminar about being the student, not the teacher, in class. She’ll take them back to her classes this fall.

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08.08.2025

STEM By Design 2nd Edition for Solving Real World Problems

STEM By Design (2nd edition) is a well-organized and practical resource to help students work with real-world problems, complemented by a companion website.

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01.08.2025

The Powerful Union of Differentiation and UDL

Understanding how Universal Design for Learning and Differentiated Instruction complement each other can transform teaching and open doors for every learner.

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01.08.2025

Develop Math Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms

Developing Mathematical Reasoning is a valuable resource offering fresh insights. An eye-opening read that will reinvigorate your approach to teaching math.

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30.07.2025

Supporting Our ELLs: The Power of Strong Sentence Frames

Sentence frames built on clear objectives serve as effective scaffolds for English language learners. Ortiz-Agib and Cummins share classroom-tested strategies.

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29.07.2025

Teacher Induction with Lasting Impact from Day One

Teacher Induction That Works is for anyone involved in setting up or improving a mentoring program. It is practical, engaging, and full of actionable ideas.

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Interdisciplinary Teaching Helps Students Make Connections

STEM Project Ideas to Recycle, Reuse & Reduce Plastic Waste

Positively Influence Student Learning and Classroom Behavior

Teaching Math Intervention to Engage Students Who Struggle

Why Puberty Today Isn't What It Used to Be

How We Can Help Students Discover Their Leadership Skills

Hands-On Guide to Creating Organized, Effective Instruction

Some Surprising Research About Students and Motivation

What I Am Pledging When I Pledge Allegiance at School

Planning and Adjusting Lesson Plans for Successful Pacing

Finding Your Path as a Woman in School Leadership

Connecting Literacy Instruction to the Science of Learning

Making the Most of Your Modern School Librarian

Thinking Classroom Design Replaces Compliance with Curiosity

Introduce Middle Grades Readers to People with Down Syndrome

The Missing Link to Help Them Think: SEL and Exec. Function

Fresh Fiction for Class Libraries in the New School Year

Building Classroom Community Now and Through the Year

A Framework for Effective Co-Teaching Relationships

2 Resource Books to Engage Gifted & Advanced Middle Graders

The Prepared, Patient, and Persistent Instructional Coach

You’re a Teacher Now: What’s Next? Review

Use Frontloading Strategies to Help Multilinguals Power Up

Apply Depth of Knowledge, Cognitive Rigor for Deep Learning

The Power of Short Form for Growing Student Voice

Barbara Blackburn: You Are the Key to Your Students’ Success

How to Spark Student Engagement in Middle School Classrooms

The Essential Toolbox for ELL Teachers

A Collaborative Leadership Model to Turn Your School Around

Study Strategies: Proven Ways to Help Students Remember More

7 Essentials Ensure Your School Has a Culture of Belonging

Build on Turn and Talk to Help ELLs Authentically Converse

Bilingual Literacy Strategies for Middle Level Science Labs

My Summer of Relaxed and Purposeful Fall Planning

5 More Things I Learned Sitting in a Classroom

STEM By Design 2nd Edition for Solving Real World Problems

The Powerful Union of Differentiation and UDL

Develop Math Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms

Supporting Our ELLs: The Power of Strong Sentence Frames

Teacher Induction with Lasting Impact from Day One

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