Jackie Walsh, Emily Brokaw and Anna Salazar describe in rich detail the role of 'Student as Collaborative Contributor' using real-world stories and resources.

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30.04.2024

Scheduling MLs and Their Teachers for Equity

The way to check for equity for multilingual learners is by examining a school's teacher and student scheduling practices, writes teacher-consultant Tan Huynh.

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29.04.2024

Relating Classic Texts to Students' Lives Today

The world and our students are constantly changing. Adding modern connections to classic texts can engage readers by helping them relate to universal themes.

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26.04.2024

Leading Culturally Responsive Gifted Programs: A Roadmap

Greene and Dubois’s book is a roadmap to create culturally, linguistically sustaining gifted education policies, practices, and programming that are antiracist.

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25.04.2024

New Teachers: Use Quality Resource Sites to Fill Class Gaps

Education information specialist April Angel urges new teachers to take advantage of quality resource sites to plan lessons and fill gaps in class resources.

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23.04.2024

As Jamboard Sunsets, What Is on the Horizon?

As the sunset of Jamboard approaches in late 2024, Kathleen Palmieri is looking for a replacement. She finds FigJam offers easy transition and improved tools.

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22.04.2024

Prepping and Interviewing for Your First Teaching Job

Teacher educator Curtis Chandler offers expert preparation and interviewing tips to soon-to-be classroom educators looking to secure their first teaching job.

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19.04.2024

100-Word Stories: A Short Form for Expansive Writing

100-Word Stories is a wonderful resource for teaching from micro texts and helping students (5-12) develop both writing and reading mastery, says Erin Smith.

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18.04.2024

Kids Behavior May Be Developmental and Still Not Appropriate

The missteps of middle schoolers may be "developmentally appropriate" but we still need to guide students to do better, writes school leader Jody Passanisi.

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16.04.2024

Teaching Students to Read (and Write with) Film and Video

Teachers can broaden literacy educadtion by engaging students in a critical process of "reading" film and also responding as readers by creating video products.

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15.04.2024

7 Principles of Heart Centered Teaching, Learning & Living

Educator Regie Routman shares seven principles that prioritize supporting, guiding, and celebrating learners and helping them realize their unique potentials.

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12.04.2024

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Co-Intelligence: Living & Working with AI by Ethan Mollick reveals AI's possibilities and challenges in the classroom and beyond. A must-read says Sarah Cooper.

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10.04.2024

Use the Say Something Protocol to Strengthen Reader Response

Rather than reading without focus, this protocol teaches students to attend to what they are reading by stopping to “say something” to each other at intervals.

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09.04.2024

How Do We Teach the Writer First and the Writing Second?

Systems coach Matt Renwick shares his tools for helping students uncover their writing obstacles and apply strategies to become more confident and successful.

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08.04.2024

Teaching: The Best Job I Never Wanted

Stephanie Farley was a reluctant adventurer 30 years ago when she first took a teaching job. She soon discovered "a powerfully engaging, ever-evolving vocation."

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05.04.2024

Media-Savvy Middle School Classroom: Strategies

Teacher Megan Balduf finds some lesson plans in The Media-Savvy Middle School Classroom too esoteric for Gr. 6-8 students and an already packed ELA curriculum.

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03.04.2024

Study Sense = Success!

To succeed academically, middle schoolers must learn to organize and study effectively. G/T Facilitator Sharon Ratliff shares her skill-building strategies.

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02.04.2024

Six Ways We Can Build a Resilience-Friendly Classroom

Positive education champion Dr. Debbie Silver offers six strategies educators can use to grow classroom cultures that foster life-long resiliency in students.

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01.04.2024

5 Questions for Any Text: Helping Kids Be Critical Readers

Marilyn Pryle's 5 crucial questions help students become critical readers in the Age of Disinformation, learning to look more deeply into any text, in any form.

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29.03.2024

Literacy’s Democratic Roots: A ... Tour Through 8 Big Ideas

Among the '8 Big Ideas' Newkirk examines in Literacy’s Democratic Roots are expressive language, the writing process, translanguaging and independent reading.

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27.03.2024

How Teacher Notebooks Can Help Student Writers and Readers

Teachers can use their own notebooks to model how to set up and organize a notebook page and how to craft a range of responses to reading, writes Laura Robb.

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26.03.2024

How to Differentiate the Teaching, Not the Math Tasks

For math teacher Mona Iehl differentiation is not about offering students different problems, it's about varying the amount of support based on their progress.

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25.03.2024

Some Fun Tasks That Help Students Build Research Muscles

Research is a muscle that Megan Kelly’s 6th grade social studies students are still building, and just like muscles, their skills get stronger with repetition.

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21.03.2024

Educator Bandwidth How to Reclaim Your Energy, Passion, Time

Learn factors that impact your educator bandwidth: balancing priorities, filtering possibilities, focusing through mental habits, fueling your brain and more.

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21.03.2024

Why One Teacher Is Leaving Her Classroom Door Open

Dina Strasser noticed a tangible negative impact when her classroom door is closed on a regular basis as security suggests. So she's leaving it locked but open.

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19.03.2024

Meeting Overload: How to Make Meetings More Productive

Ron Williamson and Barbara Blackburn share strategies to lead productive meetings, from planning to norms, agenda setting, decision making and useful tools.

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18.03.2024

How to Use Books to Help Adolescents Explore Body Image

Adolescent students benefit from having access to stories on body image, a complex and sensitive topic. Kasey Short shares titles and questions for reflection.

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15.03.2024

Your Teacher Leadership Journey: A Blueprint for Growth

No matter what role of education leadership you may have as a teacher, there’s a chapter in Melissa Collin’s book worth your time to read and reflect on.

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14.03.2024

Every Student Can Be Successful ith These Complex Tasks

Dr. Karin Hess shares ideas for group tasks that deepen learning and build relationships, classroom culture, and each individual’s sense of accomplishment.

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12.03.2024

Teacher Consistency Builds Student Trust and Engagement

Kids need to know what to expect when they enter our classroom says Kelly Owens. Consistency on the front end paves the way for student autonomy and engagement.

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11.03.2024

Why Are So Many Students Struggling with Simple Equations?

To learn why her 11th graders are struggling with simple equations, Michelle Russell sat with each one as they attempted to solve two middle grades problems.

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08.03.2024

Let's Stop Teaching and Start Designing Learning

Jason Kennedy has written a no-frills, how-to book full of ideas on designing instruction along with his passionate views about student engagement and learning.

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06.03.2024

Number Sense Can Build a Strong Math Foundation for Students

When students develop number sense, they can work flexibly and are ready to achieve at higher levels of math, writes middle grades teacher Kathie Palmieri.

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05.03.2024

Use a UDL Strategy to Help Students Communicate Effectively

Adolescents won’t learn to communicate appropriately in class without explicit instruction. Samantha Layne and Susanne Croasdaile show how UDL strategies help.

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04.03.2024

Offering Students Extra Credit: A Positive or a Negative?

The decision to give extra credit should be closely tied to a teacher's reasons for grading, says Barbara Blackburn. Included: a redo tool—her preferred option.

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01.03.2024

Talent Zones: 10 Tools to Help Kids Develop Their Talents

Dr. Lee Hancock's thoughtful, relatable insights show how we can create supportive environments that give all children the opportunity to develop their talents.

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28.02.2024

Teaching Students How to Assess Themselves

Teachers can help students learn to self-assess with two strategies: providing prompts and stems, and including self-questioning in daily learning targets.

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27.02.2024

How Translanguaging Can Be Part of Any Lesson

By creating space for students’ languages (translanguaging) we give them tools to better understand content and more fully express themselves, says Tan Huynh.

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26.02.2024

What Helps Gifted Neurodiverse Kids Learn Helps Everyone

Teaching coach Stephanie Farley shares engaging instructional approaches that challenge gifted, neurodiverse learners and strengthen learning for all students.

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22.02.2024

Reasons to Read he Reading Strategies Book 2.0

The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 makes a great 1st edition even better. It should be in the hands of every teacher of reading, says literacy coach Pam Hamilton.

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Students as Collaborative Contributors in a Learning Culture

Scheduling MLs and Their Teachers for Equity

Relating Classic Texts to Students' Lives Today

Leading Culturally Responsive Gifted Programs: A Roadmap

New Teachers: Use Quality Resource Sites to Fill Class Gaps

As Jamboard Sunsets, What Is on the Horizon?

Prepping and Interviewing for Your First Teaching Job

100-Word Stories: A Short Form for Expansive Writing

Kids Behavior May Be Developmental and Still Not Appropriate

Teaching Students to Read (and Write with) Film and Video

7 Principles of Heart Centered Teaching, Learning & Living

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Use the Say Something Protocol to Strengthen Reader Response

How Do We Teach the Writer First and the Writing Second?

Teaching: The Best Job I Never Wanted

Media-Savvy Middle School Classroom: Strategies

Study Sense = Success!

Six Ways We Can Build a Resilience-Friendly Classroom

5 Questions for Any Text: Helping Kids Be Critical Readers

Literacy’s Democratic Roots: A ... Tour Through 8 Big Ideas

How Teacher Notebooks Can Help Student Writers and Readers

How to Differentiate the Teaching, Not the Math Tasks

Some Fun Tasks That Help Students Build Research Muscles

Educator Bandwidth How to Reclaim Your Energy, Passion, Time

Why One Teacher Is Leaving Her Classroom Door Open

Meeting Overload: How to Make Meetings More Productive

How to Use Books to Help Adolescents Explore Body Image

Your Teacher Leadership Journey: A Blueprint for Growth

Every Student Can Be Successful ith These Complex Tasks

Teacher Consistency Builds Student Trust and Engagement

Why Are So Many Students Struggling with Simple Equations?

Let's Stop Teaching and Start Designing Learning

Number Sense Can Build a Strong Math Foundation for Students

Use a UDL Strategy to Help Students Communicate Effectively

Offering Students Extra Credit: A Positive or a Negative?

Talent Zones: 10 Tools to Help Kids Develop Their Talents

Teaching Students How to Assess Themselves

How Translanguaging Can Be Part of Any Lesson

What Helps Gifted Neurodiverse Kids Learn Helps Everyone

Reasons to Read he Reading Strategies Book 2.0

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