Teaching coach Barbara Blackburn explains the essentials of effective scaffolding, its relationship to rigor, and how both can be achieved in your classroom.

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31.01.2025

Real World Math Projects for Gifted Learners, Grades 4-5

Mark Hess provides engaging, multi-faceted, math-centered content to challenge and engage Gr 4-5 students. Includes detailed images, student examples, handouts.

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30.01.2025

The Power of Mentor Text-Based Grammar Instruction

Author and educatorSean Ruday shares how he uses mentor texts to help students see the power of grammar to illuminate stories and strengthen their own writing.

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29.01.2025

Resilient in the Middle: Keep Your Teacher Battery Charged

Julie Hasson introduces her 5-part series to help middle grades educators strengthen their resilience by learning ways to keep their teacher battery charged.

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27.01.2025

Here's Why My 7th Graders Are Memorizing the 50 States

When U.S. history teacher Lauren Brown realized how little her 7th graders knew about the 50 states, she resorted to memorization to build background knowledge.

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24.01.2025

Advancing MLs' Academic Literacy through Combinations

Nell Scharff Panero and Joanna Yip offer us a robust toolkit designed to empower educators with effective literacy strategies to support multilingual learners.

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22.01.2025

Does Math Class Have To Be Fun All Year?

To reconnect with her math students this winter, Michelle Russell found several ways to up the fun factor, including trasketball and team buzzer competitions.

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20.01.2025

Developing Creative Writing Skills and Writing for Fun

Creative writing exercises allow students to develop writer voices and find joy in storytelling. See Kasey Short’s many choices for plot, setting and character.

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17.01.2025

Turning It Around: Create the School Your Students Deserve

With its tools, approaches and ideas that can work in any school, Turning It Around by Whitaker and Monterecy is a valuable new resource for school improvement.

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15.01.2025

What About the Text I’m Reading Is Influencing My Reaction?

Marilyn Pryle concludes a series on key questions to help students become critical readers. Here it's teaching them to pry open any text and name what they see.

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13.01.2025

Vision Boards Can Help Us Reignite Our Career Goals

If you know your ‘why,’ parlay it into a set of directions that will motivate your daily work. Kelly Owens shares how vision boards help teachers and students.

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10.01.2025

Launching a Student-Centered Collaborative Math Classroom

The Collaborative Math Classroom is a must-read for all educators interested in creating spaces for authentic math learning for students of all ages and grades.

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09.01.2025

“Generous Listening” among Middle Schoolers

Through Generous Listening middle schoolers can learn to see themselves and each other as people with the capacity to teach each other and learn from each other

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07.01.2025

Leading Innovative Instructional Change in Schools

Successful school innovations have clear vision and purpose, full collaboration, and a commitment to monitor and adjust. Williamson and Blackburn share 6 steps.

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06.01.2025

Teacher Gifts: Sweet Funny Things Our Students Give Us

By Stephanie Farley Right before winter break, I was chatting with a few new teachers who were both surprised and delighted by the gifts their students gave them. Neither realized that teachers are smothered in riches each holiday season and were taken aback by the generosity and warmth expressed by students and families in their

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02.01.2025

Playbook for Creating a Place Where Kids Feel They Belong

Belonging in School is packed with evidence-based modules and actions and strategies to create a place where students feel included and teachers want to stay.

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01.01.2025

Foster Student Engagement, Collaboration by Flexible Seating

Flexible seating is not just moving chairs around; it’s creating an environment where students feel valued, empowered & excited to learn says Kathleen Palmieri.

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30.12.2024

Six Ways Students Might Use AI to Pursue STEM Challenges

How can teachers authentically integrate AI digital technology into STEM challenges they design for their students? STEM expert Anne Jolly has some suggestions.

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25.12.2024

Snapshots from an Independent School's Global Travel Program

By traveling abroad, students step out of their comfort zones, build connections, and develop a global perspective, says middle school head Michael McLaughlin.

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21.12.2024

Going Global in the World Language Classroom

Erin E.H. Austin advocates a shift in language class from a focus on grammar and vocabulary to one that integrates cultural understanding and global awareness.

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19.12.2024

Strategies to Keep Kids Learning & Forget About Their Phones

It’s not enough to take the phones away, writes educator Tom Rademacher. Teachers need to introduce activities that change what it feels like to be in school.

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16.12.2024

Teaching Media Literacy in Moments Throughout the Day

Alarmed by research on teens' difficulty separating fact and fiction, Megan Kelly is gleaning spare classroom minutes to strengthen their media literacy skills.

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13.12.2024

How Students Can Engage with Content and Each Other

Lauren Porosoff’s Teach for Authentic Engagement seamlessly ties together 3 big ideas of student engagement with easy-to-follow protocols, writes Laurie Hornik.

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11.12.2024

These Everyday Habits Can Boost Teaching Impact

Building small but mighty habits without having to overthink what we’re doing is a far more effective and lasting approach to teaching, writes Miriam Plotinsky.

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09.12.2024

Crash Course: Teaching Academic Vocabulary

It's critical to support learners with effective vocabulary instruction. Curtis Chandler's crash course shares research-backed strategies and tools that work.

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06.12.2024

50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement and More

The sound teaching ideas in Hernandez’s 50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement can and should be used throughout the academic year, says Michael McLaughlin.

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04.12.2024

Help Students Learn to Examine Their Feelings about Texts

Helping students identify and manage their emotions as they interact with texts helps them become effective thinkers and citizens, writes NBCT Marilyn Pryle.

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02.12.2024

Unlocking Academic Writing, One Sentence at a Time

Tan Huynh advocates teaching multilingual learners at the sentence level because it can facilitate understanding of content and foster academic writing skills.

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25.11.2024

The "Public" in Public Education Makes It Political

Schools need to be spaces where students have the freedom and support to come to their own reasoned political conclusions about the world, writes Dina Strasser.

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22.11.2024

Fifty Strategies for Supporting Multilingual Learners

Mandy Manning’s teaching strategies can help forge the bonds of empathy critical to multilingual learners’ success in academics, language acquisition and SEL.

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20.11.2024

Blur the Lines Between Fiction + NonFiction

Stephanie Farley shows how to blend elements of fiction and nonfiction to help students conceptualize and improve their writing in English and social studies.

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18.11.2024

Reflection Is Key in Learning to Solve Math Word Problems

The most important step in learning to solve word problems is reflection, writes math coach Mona Iehl. See how she builds quick student reflection into lessons.

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15.11.2024

Empowering Students to Own Their Learning Journeys

Heroes Within by Aaron Hansen is built around the concept of students as heroes of their own learning journeys. It offers a framework with strategies and tools.

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13.11.2024

Grow Understanding and Compassion Through Personal Stories

Exploring human experiences through personal stories helps facilitate discourse that focuses on individual realities rather than generalizations. Kasey Short

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11.11.2024

Designing Questions that Support Scaffolding

Effective questions can include opportunities to scaffold student learning. Teaching coach Barbara Blackburn offers five ways teachers can create those options.

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08.11.2024

Leadership: Balancing Assertiveness & Compassion in Schools

Brad and Jeremy Johnson offer a nuanced exploration of the tension between assertiveness and compassion in school leadership and offer actionable strategies.

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07.11.2024

Vocabulary and Context Clues across the Subject Areas

After researching and working with her own students, middle grades teacher Kathie Palmieri shares her findings on the impact of word study on academic success.

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04.11.2024

The Input-Output Loop: It's Chunking 2.0 for Multilinguals

Tan Huynh shows how the Input-Output Loop combines traditional chunking with processing strategies to expand MLs’ opportunity to comprehend unfamiliar content.

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01.11.2024

Improving Opportunities and Outcomes for Black Students

Kafele’s Equity & Social Justice Education 50 is not just another book providing ways to reflect on equity and professional practices. It is a call to action.

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29.10.2024

Random Grouping for Math Class for Discovery and Practice

Michelle Russell revisited random grouping for her math classes and found the environment was better, students were talking more, and more work was being done.

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5 Core Beliefs Support the Rigor and Scaffolding Partnership

Real World Math Projects for Gifted Learners, Grades 4-5

The Power of Mentor Text-Based Grammar Instruction

Resilient in the Middle: Keep Your Teacher Battery Charged

Here's Why My 7th Graders Are Memorizing the 50 States

Advancing MLs' Academic Literacy through Combinations

Does Math Class Have To Be Fun All Year?

Developing Creative Writing Skills and Writing for Fun

Turning It Around: Create the School Your Students Deserve

What About the Text I’m Reading Is Influencing My Reaction?

Vision Boards Can Help Us Reignite Our Career Goals

Launching a Student-Centered Collaborative Math Classroom

“Generous Listening” among Middle Schoolers

Leading Innovative Instructional Change in Schools

Teacher Gifts: Sweet Funny Things Our Students Give Us

Playbook for Creating a Place Where Kids Feel They Belong

Foster Student Engagement, Collaboration by Flexible Seating

Six Ways Students Might Use AI to Pursue STEM Challenges

Snapshots from an Independent School's Global Travel Program

Going Global in the World Language Classroom

Strategies to Keep Kids Learning & Forget About Their Phones

Teaching Media Literacy in Moments Throughout the Day

How Students Can Engage with Content and Each Other

These Everyday Habits Can Boost Teaching Impact

Crash Course: Teaching Academic Vocabulary

50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement and More

Help Students Learn to Examine Their Feelings about Texts

Unlocking Academic Writing, One Sentence at a Time

The "Public" in Public Education Makes It Political

Fifty Strategies for Supporting Multilingual Learners

Blur the Lines Between Fiction + NonFiction

Reflection Is Key in Learning to Solve Math Word Problems

Empowering Students to Own Their Learning Journeys

Grow Understanding and Compassion Through Personal Stories

Designing Questions that Support Scaffolding

Leadership: Balancing Assertiveness & Compassion in Schools

Vocabulary and Context Clues across the Subject Areas

The Input-Output Loop: It's Chunking 2.0 for Multilinguals

Improving Opportunities and Outcomes for Black Students

Random Grouping for Math Class for Discovery and Practice

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