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.

MiddleWeb

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.

MiddleWeb

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

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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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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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

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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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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08.08.2025

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

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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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.

MiddleWeb

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.

MiddleWeb

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.

MiddleWeb

29.07.2025

How Can I Make Change When I'm Just One Teacher?

How can teachers become change makers for equity and justice with so much stacked against us? Author and educator Alex Shevrin Venet shares three strategies.

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29.07.2025

A "Must-Read" Illustrated Welcome to Beginning Teachers

Welcome to Teaching! by Fisher and Frey does not just tell you how to teach. It shows you! It includes QR codes to extend learning beyond the pages of the text.

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29.07.2025

5 Strategies for Building Leadership Capacity in Your School

Williamson and Blackburn share five strategies to help school leaders expand the leadership capacity of their staffs and draw on the skills of informal leaders.

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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.

MiddleWeb

29.07.2025

A Quickwrite Protocol Helps Students Navigate Difficult Text

Ron Klemp uses a four-step quickwrite protocol to help struggling readers navigate their way through challenging texts, boosting engagement and understanding.

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15.07.2025

Better Beginnings for Better Learning This Year

With a new school year not too far over the horizon, 7th grade teacher Laurie Hornik suggests way to get off to a strong start. First tip: skip the icebreakers.

MiddleWeb

14.07.2025

Capabilities & Ethics of AI Found in Middle Grades Fiction

Novels that explore AI through stories grounded in real ethical and scientific questions spark discussions and critical thinking with students, says Kasey Short

MiddleWeb

01.07.2025

Portrait of a Middle School STEM Student

Anne Jolly describes the well-rounded middle school student– ready for success in high school and beyond– and how STEM (and all) teachers can help them prepare.

MiddleWeb

29.06.2025

3 Ways Ed Leaders Might Become More Present and Productive

Overwhelmed? Matt Renwick uses what he calls productive presence, "a system for organizing all my responsibilities so that I can focus on one thing at a time."

MiddleWeb

27.06.2025

Prompting Deeper Discussions by Crafting Great Questions

Matthew Kay provides actionable insights on how to structure discussions, promote critical thinking, and create a safe classroom to encourage thoughtful debate.

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25.06.2025

Reading Aloud Succeeds as a Middle School Intervention

Jennifer Sniadecki shows how reading aloud provides students with opportunities to experience success through thinking alongside their teachers and peers.

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23.06.2025

Welcome the FANBOYS Conjunction Fan Club to Your Classroom

Patty McGee and Tim Donohue share fun, effective techniques to help more students evolve into grammar rock stars. Welcome to the FANBOYS conjunction fan club!

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20.06.2025

9 Leadership Strategies Support Your Most Valuable Teachers

Invest in Your Best is full of practical insights leaders can use to improve the retention of their most effective teachers and the performance of their school.

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16.06.2025

Classroom Anxiety: What It Is and What Teachers Can

By focusing more on student anxiety and the need for safety teachers can help kids experience the self regulation they need for learning, says Gravity Goldberg.

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13.06.2025

Strategies for Student-Driven Learning for Reading & Writing

"Step Aside" is full of ideas for secondary teachers to support and encourage students to become involved, engaged, and in control of their reading and writing.

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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

2 Resource Books to Engage Gifted & Advanced Middle Graders

A Framework for Effective Co-Teaching Relationships

The Prepared, Patient, and Persistent Instructional Coach

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

Apply Depth of Knowledge, Cognitive Rigor for Deep Learning

Use Frontloading Strategies to Help Multilinguals Power Up

The Power of Short Form for Growing Student Voice

The Essential Toolbox for ELL Teachers

Study Strategies: Proven Ways to Help Students Remember More

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

A Collaborative Leadership Model to Turn Your School Around

How to Spark Student Engagement in Middle School Classrooms

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

5 More Things I Learned Sitting in a Classroom

My Summer of Relaxed and Purposeful Fall Planning

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

How Can I Make Change When I'm Just One Teacher?

A "Must-Read" Illustrated Welcome to Beginning Teachers

5 Strategies for Building Leadership Capacity in Your School

Teacher Induction with Lasting Impact from Day One

A Quickwrite Protocol Helps Students Navigate Difficult Text

Better Beginnings for Better Learning This Year

Capabilities & Ethics of AI Found in Middle Grades Fiction

Portrait of a Middle School STEM Student

3 Ways Ed Leaders Might Become More Present and Productive

Prompting Deeper Discussions by Crafting Great Questions

Reading Aloud Succeeds as a Middle School Intervention

Welcome the FANBOYS Conjunction Fan Club to Your Classroom

9 Leadership Strategies Support Your Most Valuable Teachers

Classroom Anxiety: What It Is and What Teachers Can

Strategies for Student-Driven Learning for Reading & Writing

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