- Teaching Strategies
Scaffolding Like a Pro: Powerful Ways to Support Learning
With options ranging from tried-and-true to lesser known, these strategies for cognitive, metacognitive, and procedural scaffolding will help you set students up for success.Your content has been saved!
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Building Connections With Students as a Middle School Principal
This simple (and tasty!) strategy can help middle school principals get to know their students and create a welcoming school community.Your content has been saved!
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6 Strategies for Building a Sustainable STEM Ecosystem
Upper elementary teachers can use these ideas to create meaningful, interdisciplinary STEM opportunities that encourage experimentation.Your content has been saved!
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How AI Vaporizes Long-Term Learning
A 2024 study revealed that AI tools like ChatGPT could boost test scores—but ultimately undermined students’ learning and retention. - Culturally Responsive Teaching
Teaching Students About the Richness of Black Language Traditions
Black History Month is an opportunity to augment traditional written documents with visual, sonic, dramatic, and multimedia texts. - Design Thinking
Design Thinking in World Language Classes
Teachers can use the five-stage approach of design thinking to boost students’ engagement, motivation, and comprehension. - 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.107Your content has been saved!
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Using Creative Play to Support Autistic Students in Preschool
Whether teachers know or simply suspect that they have an autistic student, these ideas support learning for them and the whole class.111Your content has been saved!
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Teachers Want Hard Questions Asked Before Adding Tech
Districts can avoid common pitfalls in ed tech adoption by asking these critical questions before spending big money. - Administration & Leadership
Ensuring That Your Curriculum Meets Standards
School leaders can play a pivotal role in aligning curriculum and standards, and in ensuring that teachers receive effective professional development.
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- ChatGPT & Generative AI
AI Tool Demo: Canva’s Text-to-Image Generator
Assistant editor Daniel Leonard shows how teachers are using Canva’s AI image generator to create fun writing prompts and engaging history-oriented images. - Flexible Classrooms
Repurposing Furniture to Support Learning in the Early Grades
A kindergarten teacher gives five practical examples of repurposing classroom furniture to serve multiple uses. - Technology Integration
9 Teacher-Tested Apps to Enhance Math Instruction
From interactive calculators to skill-building games, these digital tools can help make math more accessible and engaging for students. - Professional Learning
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. - Technology Integration
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.
- Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
How to Build Students’ Resilience
Teachers can use these strategies to strengthen their students’ ability to cope with setbacks and frustration. - Technology Integration
Using Tech Tools to Promote SEL
These tools make it easier for teachers and students to collaborate on building self-awareness and reflection skills.204Your content has been saved!
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How—and Why—to Use Improv in the Classroom
By regularly including theater games in the classroom, teachers give students an opportunity to build community, practice social skills, and gain a deeper understanding of academic content. - Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
4 Ways to Leverage Emotions for Learning
These strategies for guiding students to learn how to manage their emotions can help ensure a thriving classroom community. - Literacy
What SEL Adds to Our Understanding of Literacy Development in Young Children
Teachers can use connections between literacy and social and emotional learning to awaken a love of reading in young students.
- Technology Integration
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.296Your content has been saved!
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Spencer Russell on What We Get Wrong About Reading Instruction
There’s a way to get kids learning to read quickly and feeling excited about it, says the former teacher and TikTok influencer—and the return for teachers is big. - Literacy
Using Maslow’s Hierarchy to Teach Literary Analysis
The ability to understand why people do what they do starts with empathy, and using the hierarchy of needs can help students understand fictional characters.
- Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
Adding an Academic Focus to SEL in High School
Social, emotional, and academic development (SEAD) is a subtle shift from SEL, but it can make a big difference for students.470Your content has been saved!
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De-escalating the Brain, Not the Behavior
When students feel intense emotions, it’s important for teachers to meet them where they are and use strategies that guide them toward self-regulation. - Mental Health
A Multi-Tiered Approach to Digital Wellness
Schools can take steps to combat the negative effects of social media and empower students to use digital media in safe, healthy ways.367Your content has been saved!
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Teaching Students to Persevere Without Getting Burned Out
These strategies for balancing perseverance with well-being can help students learn how to take a break and still reach their goals.281Your content has been saved!
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Research-Backed Ways to Support Students Who Stutter
A compilation of evidence-based classroom strategies to help kids who stutter feel welcomed.
