- Administration & Leadership
Slowing Down to Communicate With Intention
Tips for how administrators can ensure clarity and reduce teachers’ sense of being overwhelmed by communications.Your content has been saved!
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6 Tips to Make Difficult Phone Calls Home More Manageable
While calling home about an in-school incident is never fun, these tips can help make the conversations more effective and efficient.Your content has been saved!
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Promoting SEL Through Music Education
A look at how teachers are fostering students’ social and emotional development across grade levels with music education.Your content has been saved!
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Encouraging Students to Own Their Academic Growth
When students use a hands-on approach to track their own progress, goals, and test scores, they begin to take responsibility for their learning.Your content has been saved!
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Creating Space for Tasks That Are Important but Not Urgent
A priority-setting tool used by President Eisenhower can help school and district leaders ensure that they’re focused on the right tasks.Your content has been saved!
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Let the Drama Games Begin
These theater activities help early learners build literacy, speech, motor, and social and emotional skills while they’re having fun. - Administration & Leadership
Designing a Master Schedule to Support All Teachers
Careful scheduling that takes into account the needs of teachers across grade levels can maximize the amount of time they have to plan.106Your content has been saved!
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A Strategy for Differentiating Assessments
Tiered assessments help ensure that all students can show what they know while being appropriately challenged.139Your content has been saved!
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The Benefits of Creating a Bucket Drumline
A student drum corps can give kids a taste of leadership and a sense of pride in their creative abilities. - Professional Learning
Tips for Achieving National Board Certification
This teacher completed the process in one year using the organized, step-by-step approach shared here.114Your content has been saved!
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7 Learning Myths Your Students Probably Believe
From left- and right-brain thinking to the notion that talent beats persistence, these common myths can hinder student learning. Here’s how teachers can help. - Teaching Strategies
Teaching Students What to Do With the Notes They Take
Taking good notes is an important skill—and so is knowing how best to use them for learning. - Literacy
3 Ways to Begin to Develop Preschoolers’ Literacy Skills
Developmentally appropriate activities focused on foundational reading skills can help young children have fun while they learn. - Special Education
5 Interconnected Ways for School Leaders to Uplift Special Education Teachers and Staff
These strategies build real, sustainable trust between principals and special education staff and help limit burnout. - Special Education
It’s Important to Talk About Learning Accommodations With Your Students—Here’s How to Do It
From metaphors for elementary school kids to mindset shifts and graphic organizers for teens, here are teacher-tested tips for normalizing learning accommodations across grade levels.
- Integrated Studies
Integrating Math Into Elementary PE
Teachers can work together to reveal the ways that math concepts are already present in PE activities. - Integrated Studies
Using Technology to Support Students’ Understanding of Nonfiction Reading
Generative AI tools can help make content more accessible as students learn about complex concepts across content areas. - Integrated Studies
Empowering Students to Be Real-World Problem Solvers
When middle school students are given the opportunity to deeply explore what it means to be a changemaker, they see a path toward making a difference in their own community—and beyond. - Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Connecting Across Disciplines in PBL
Here are three ways to set up project-based learning that involves more than one subject area, which is highly engaging for students. - Integrated Studies
Putting an Environmental Spin on Literary Analysis
Secondary students can consider the ecological context in which a text was written to gain new insights into their reading assignments.266Your content has been saved!
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- Literacy
3 Ways to Begin to Develop Preschoolers’ Literacy Skills
Developmentally appropriate activities focused on foundational reading skills can help young children have fun while they learn. - Arts Integration
4 Activities for Music and Reading Integration
An interdisciplinary approach can help elementary students deepen their appreciation for music while developing their literacy skills.263Your content has been saved!
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6 Ways Technology Can Help You Teach Reading More Effectively
When used well, tech tools can reveal where students are struggling, highlight their progress, and challenge and inspire them to improve. - Literacy
Helping Young Students Build Confidence in Writing Through Revision
Upper elementary teachers can guide their students to look forward to revising their writing with this positive, reflective approach. - English Language Learners
Bolstering Language Instruction With Comics
Visual texts can be an effective way for English language learners to build literacy skills.326Your content has been saved!
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5 Interconnected Ways for School Leaders to Uplift Special Education Teachers and Staff
These strategies build real, sustainable trust between principals and special education staff and help limit burnout. - Teacher Wellness
Question: How Do You Show Up for Students on Hard Days?
Even when you're tired or struggling personally, your students still need you. Share your strategies for showing up on tough days. - Administration & Leadership
How Principals Can Set Up a Sustainable, Equitable Model of Leadership
An award-winning principal on the schoolwide improvements that have come from data-driven goals, transparency, and a culture of trust. - Administration & Leadership
Strategies for Supporting Teacher Growth
Professional learning communities and lesson rehearsals are effective ways to help teachers feel confident and prepared in the classroom.314Your content has been saved!
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How Negativity Bias May Distort Your Perspective
These strategies can help teachers manage negative thinking and can focus more on the positive aspects of their work.
