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Classroom Strategies

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Explore classroom guidance, techniques, and activities to help you meet the needs of ALL students.

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Solutions to Unfinished Learning in Math Must Go Beyond Academics

Making Students’ Learning Visible with Jamboard

Re-Humanizing Assessment through Building Internal Capacity

Tools and Resources

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Discover new tools and materials to integrate into you instruction.

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Dismantling White Supremacy in Our Workplace

Making Students’ Learning Visible with Jamboard

Top Posts of 2020

Materials Adaptation

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Find instructions and recommendations on how to adapt your existing materials to better align to college- and career-ready standards.

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Which Types of Content Are Key in Content-Focused Professional Learning in Mathematics?

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Which Types of Content Are Key in Content-Focused Professional Learning in ELA/Literacy?

Mistakes Tell Us What Students Are Ready to Learn

Standards-Alignment Information

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Learn what it means for instructional materials and assessment to be aligned to college- and career-ready standards.

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What to Consider if You’re Adopting a New ELA/Literacy Curriculum

Not Your Mom’s Professional Development

Reaching New Heights

Research and Reflections

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Delve into new research and perspectives on instructional materials and practice.

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Transforming Literacy Instruction

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Building a Culture of Advocacy

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Knowledge-Building Model Lessons for Middle and High School

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Classroom Strategies

About the topic

Explore classroom guidance, techniques, and activities to help you meet the needs of ALL students.

See all posts

most recent articles

Solutions to Unfinished Learning in Math Must Go Beyond Academics

Making Students’ Learning Visible with Jamboard

Re-Humanizing Assessment through Building Internal Capacity

Tools and Resources

About the topic

Discover new tools and materials to integrate into you instruction.

See all posts

most recent articles

Dismantling White Supremacy in Our Workplace

Making Students’ Learning Visible with Jamboard

Top Posts of 2020

Materials Adaptation

About the topic

Find instructions and recommendations on how to adapt your existing materials to better align to college- and career-ready standards.

See all posts

most recent articles

Which Types of Content Are Key in Content-Focused Professional Learning in Mathematics?

Teacher working at a laptop

Which Types of Content Are Key in Content-Focused Professional Learning in ELA/Literacy?

Mistakes Tell Us What Students Are Ready to Learn

Standards-Alignment Information

About the topic

Learn what it means for instructional materials and assessment to be aligned to college- and career-ready standards.

See all posts

most recent articles

What to Consider if You’re Adopting a New ELA/Literacy Curriculum

Not Your Mom’s Professional Development

Reaching New Heights

Research and Reflections

About the topic

Delve into new research and perspectives on instructional materials and practice.

See all posts

most recent articles

Transforming Literacy Instruction

Group of students talking.

Building a Culture of Advocacy

Students reading and taking notes

Knowledge-Building Model Lessons for Middle and High School

Achieve The Core

Teacher Perspectives

Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation, Standards-Alignment Information
Part 1

A Teacher’s Thoughts on the Core Knowledge Language Arts Curriculum

First grade teacher, Adrienne Williams, describes the strengths and challenges of Core Knowledge Language Arts.
04/07/16, Adrienne Williams
Materials Adaptation
Part 2

Everyday Math: Small Routines Build Bigger Understanding

A Kindergarten teacher dives into Everyday Math and finds ways to make minor Routines into Major Work of the Grade practice
11/08/16, Bethany Lockhart
Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation
Part 3

Everyday Math Kindergarten Tips

A kindergarten teacher explains how she adapted some of the Everyday Math Daily Routines to challenge her students more.
12/12/16, Bethany Lockhart
Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources
Part 4

Using an EdReports Review to Improve My Math Curriculum

A 5th grade teacher explains how she made small adjustments to improve the Everyday Math Curriculum after identifying its weaknesses.
01/26/17, Ingrid Beaty
Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation
Part 5

Navigating the Spiral in Mathematics Textbooks

A classroom teacher and curriculum coordinator describe how they used the spiral design of their textbook to help them focus on creating coherent instruction.
02/02/17, Bethany Lockhart, Jody Guarino
Materials Adaptation, Standards-Alignment Information
Part 6

Math in Focus: The Search for an Aligned Math Program

One district’s implementation of a new elementary math program
02/10/17, Kathryn Lemerich
Materials Adaptation, Tools and Resources
Part 7

Empowering Primary Math Teachers

How one school moved from contention to ownership of their math curriculum
03/27/17, Danielle Brown
Materials Adaptation
Part 8

A Third Grade Teacher’s Perspective on Eureka Math

What does Eureka look like in the classroom?
05/22/17, Jessica Doughty
Materials Adaptation
Part 9

Eureka Math – A View from Second Grade

An honest reflection on Eureka Math's strengths and challenges
06/16/17, Whitney Haynes
Materials Adaptation
Part 10

Students JUMP at the Opportunity to Learn

Building confidence with JUMP Math’s guided discovery approach.
07/26/17, Melanie Greene
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