- Administration & Leadership
Slowing Down to Communicate With Intention
Tips for how administrators can ensure clarity and reduce teachers’ sense of being overwhelmed by communications.110Your 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.135Your 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. - Assessment
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.124Your 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.119Your 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.210Your 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.128Your 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. - Teaching Strategies
How to Incorporate ‘Spaced Learning’ Into Your Lesson Plans
This powerful, evidence-based strategy works across subjects and grade levels—but you have to plan for it.281Your content has been saved!
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How Can I Be Sure I Know What Students Are Learning?
A teacher who found that reams of data didn’t capture students’ learning made these three tweaks to his quizzes and tests. - Assessment
Simple (and Fun!) Differentiated Review Practices
These whole class and individualized strategies that foster engagement and enthusiasm can help high school students prepare for assessments.293Your content has been saved!
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Turning Difficult Lessons Into Deeper Learning
Pop quizzes, self-tests, and other active strategies are more effective for students than simply reviewing notes. - Game-Based Learning
Using the ‘Would You Rather’ Game for Reasoning and Reflection
A classic decision-making game can help students practice higher-order thinking skills in every subject—and get them to approach content in fresh ways. - Critical Thinking
Documenting Learning Through Portfolios
These strategies let students see how they have progressed during the school year, enabling them to keep building on their successes and learning from any missteps.
- English Language Learners
6 Picture Books to Help Newcomer Students Build a Sense of Belonging
Teachers can use these books to support elementary students who are getting acclimated to a new school and country.208Your 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. - English Language Learners
Bolstering Language Instruction With Comics
Visual texts can be an effective way for English language learners to build literacy skills.328Your content has been saved!
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Using Gardening to Build Community in ELL Classrooms
An interdisciplinary gardening unit can strengthen students’ sense of belonging and enhance their language skills.200Your content has been saved!
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Supporting Neuroplasticity in Multilingual Learners
Challenging, culturally responsive assignments can create a dynamic that supports students’ language development and critical thinking.
- 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. - 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.318Your 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.
