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Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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Meeting the Needs of Every Student No Matter What

5 ways to meets students' academic and emotional needs

12/16/20, Tika Epstein

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

Finding and Teaching The Complexity In Read-Aloud Texts

11/25/20, Anne Lyneis

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

Are We Forgetting About Fluency?

11/13/20, Anne Lyneis

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

Improving Accessibility for All Students

Remote Learning Tips and Tricks

11/06/20, Fishtank Learning

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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Enhancing Remote Learning and Student Engagement With Online Tools

Five tools to make virtual learning more social for students

10/30/20, Aaron Grossman

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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Building a Culture of Advocacy

Building a culture of advocacy is a continuous effort

10/23/20, Dr. Janice K. Wyatt-Ross

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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What Principles Must Underlie Successful Personalized Learning?

What educators should consider when selecting or using personalized learning approaches to accelerate literacy outcomes

10/09/20, Meredith Liben, Tanji Reed Marshall, Ph.D., Susan Pimentel

Math teacher explains online lesson to students

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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Two Facts: We Are Better Together, And We Can Do Hard Things

Exploring what it means to be “good at math"

09/18/20, Brian Dean

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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Designing Equitable Learning Environments

Intentional instructional practice decisions, with a specific focus on mathematics

09/11/20, Amber Cook

Teacher giving online school lesson via video conference

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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How to Keep Virtual Live Lessons Running Smoothly? It Takes Two

A two-person model can improve the flow and engagement in virtual lessons

09/03/20, Matt Kerrigan

Teacher teaching mathematics to students in a classroom

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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Planning for Math Remediation

Just-In-Case or Just-In-Time?

08/13/20, Sarah Britton, Jami Therrien Wells

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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Amplifying Student Voices During Distance Learning

Using asynchronous tools to create a math share-out for the kindergarten classroom

07/17/20, Bethany Lockhart Johnson

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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Why Teaching Justice Through Reading & Writing Cannot Wait

How teachers can enact change and combat racism through purposeful discussions and literary curricula

06/14/20, Yvonne Thompson

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections, Tools and Resources

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You Have a List of Culturally Diverse Texts. Now What?

Guidance on facilitating classroom lessons and discussions that push student thinking

06/11/20, Keenan W. Lee, M. Ed

Students engaged in a classroom and raising their hands.

Classroom Strategies

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Refocusing on Your Learners

5 ideas to create a student-centered classroom

05/28/20, Tamera Musiowsky-Borneman

Teacher Hosting Online Class Using Video Conference On Laptop

Classroom Strategies

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Distance Learning with Intention and Purpose

Ideas for engaging and connecting students during distance learning.

05/11/20, Marya Hay

Student participating in a remote math classroom.

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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5 Ideas to Engage K-2 Students in Math Remotely

Using video, interactive platforms, and at-home materials to support math instruction for young students

05/06/20, Chris Fishpaw

Family reading together as part of remote book club during remote learning

Tools and Resources

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Class and Family Book Tasting During Distance Learning

Designing reading activities to engage K-12 students at home

04/28/20, Tika Epstein

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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3 Recommendations for Supporting Early Elementary Students Remotely

A kindergarten teacher shares strategies and advice

04/17/20, Lindsay Arnold

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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Top 5 Resources for Learning Online

Free, standards-aligned resources to facilitate remote learning

03/20/20, Tika Epstein

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections, Tools and Resources

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Designing for Equity (Teachers as Designers)

Helping folks who care about equity do equity.

02/27/20, Dr. Christine Ortiz

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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Finding the Courage to Teach Texts Outside Your Comfort Zone (2019 Blog Competition Finalist)

Teaching texts that honor difference and inspire challenging conversations

02/21/20, Rhiannon Hartman Dunn

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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Creating a Culture of Shared Norms and High Expectations in Your Classroom (2019 Blog Competition Finalist)

How to create a culture that facilitates powerful learning for ALL learners

02/21/20, Matthew Shea

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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Say “Author” (2019 Blog Competition Finalist)

Strategies for including all learners in discussions about complex text

02/21/20, Shannon Hahne

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections, Tools and Resources

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How Does Education Research Relate to My Practice?

Is your reading program working? What can you do to improve it?

02/14/20, Tori Filler, Carey Swanson

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections, Tools and Resources

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Tidying Up

Instructional Routines for Whole-Class Reading and Writing

01/22/20, Jon Gustafson

Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources

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Reaching New Heights

A Framework for Examining Cognitive Complexity in Mathematics

01/06/20, Shelbi Cole, Ph.D, Ted Coe, Ph.D

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections, Tools and Resources

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For the Love of Learning

How a focus on building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction can enrich ELA instruction and engage learners

12/08/19, Carey Swanson

Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation, Tools and Resources

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Math Instructional Routines: Creating Opportunities for Students With Disabilities to Grapple with Grade-Level Math

How Routines for Reasoning can support all students to engage with the mathematical practices

12/01/19, Grace Kelemanik, Amy Lucenta

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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I See Me

Building a diverse classroom library with the help of First Book Marketplace

11/24/19, Tamika Peters

Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation, Tools and Resources

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Designing and Integrating a Grade 3 Assessment on Fractions

A Q&A With Raven Redmond and Jennifer Ahearn

11/15/19, Raven Redmond, Jennifer Ahearn

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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What Makes a High-Quality Diverse Text and How to Get These Texts Into Your Classroom

Resources and guidance for educators

11/13/19, Jill Eisenberg

Research and Reflections, Tools and Resources

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A New Way to Consider Cognitive Demand in ELA Assessments

A Framework for Text Complexity in ELA and Reading

11/08/19, Katie Keown

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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Laying a Solid Foundation of Literacy

Building Teacher Capacity with the Reading Foundational Skills

11/04/19, Darla O'Leary

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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Planning the Small Group Reading Lesson

Teach and Guide

10/06/19, Dr. Deborah Glaser

Classroom Strategies

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Robust Vocabulary Instruction

Bringing Knowledge-Rich Curricula to Life

09/30/19, Jon Gustafson

Classroom Strategies, Standards-Alignment Information

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Most Misunderstood Math Standards in Grade 1

Are these instructional mistakes happening in your classroom?

09/23/19, Angie Miller

Classroom Strategies

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Yarn Number Line: A Lever to Develop Fraction Understanding

A routine for developing conceptual understanding of fractions

04/18/19, Jennie Beltramini, Jody Guarino

Classroom Strategies

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Choral Counting: A Lever to Develop Fraction Understanding

A model process for using choral counting to build conceptual understanding

02/28/19, Jennie Beltramini, Jody Guarino

Classroom Strategies

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Giving Students a Choice with Their Learning

Using academic choice boards to build metacognition

12/21/18, Tika Epstein

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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Effective Reading Instruction

Why a text-centered approach, instead of a strategies-based approach, is more effective

11/16/18, Meredith Liben, Sue Pimentel

Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation

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Wit & Wisdom: Implementation Dos and Don’ts

Lessons learned from teachers who've implemented the curriculum

11/07/18, Sarah Webb

Classroom Strategies, Standards-Alignment Information

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Most Misunderstood Math Standards in Grade 5

Are these instructional mistakes happening in your classroom?

10/31/18, Rebecca Few

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections, Tools and Resources

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Addressing Common Challenges with Student Writing

Why aren’t students successful writers and what can teachers do to help?

10/09/18, Zackory Kirk

Standards-Alignment Information

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Most Misunderstood Math Standards in Grade 4

Are these instructional mistakes happening in your classroom?

10/04/18, Rebecca Few

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information

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Doing Better: Aligned Instructional Practice

An overview of the Instructional Practice Guide suite of tools

09/19/18, Destiny Eldridge, April Pforts

Standards-Alignment Information

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Most Misunderstood Math Standards in Grade 3

Are these instructional mistakes happening in your classroom?

09/13/18, Rebecca Few

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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Building A Culturally Responsive Classroom

Why building a culturally responsive classroom matters for the success of ALL students

09/07/18, Jill Yamasawa Fletcher

Research and Reflections

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Making the Connection Between Materials and Instruction

Why instructional practice should be at the heart of all instructional materials decisions

08/20/18, Sandra Alberti

Research and Reflections

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Seeing College- and Career-Ready Standards through Instruction

Exploring the updates to the Instructional Practice Guide

08/15/18, Lisa Goldschmidt

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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Creating and Sequencing Text-Dependent Questions to Support English Language Learners

Strategic selection and organization of questions can be a scaffold that helps English learners grapple with highly complex questions.

08/01/18, Claire Rivero

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information

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Considering Reading Instruction with the End in Mind

Meet students not only where they are, but also where they're going.

07/30/18, Carey Swanson

Tools and Resources

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Formative Assessments and Feedback in the Digital Age

How implementing Pear Deck changed my classroom.

07/06/18, Jeff Crayton

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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Inspiring Writers

A process for supporting writing practice with K-2 English Language Learners

06/22/18, Astrid Emily Francis

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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Re-Teaching Doesn’t Always Mean Repeating

Consider alternative ways to re-teach when students struggle with new content

06/12/18, Kristi Gettelman

Research and Reflections

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Illuminating Interims

What makes a good interim assessment program?

06/07/18, Laura Hansen

Materials Adaptation, Tools and Resources

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enVisionmath 2.0: Focusing the K-5 Mathematics Curriculum

The process and the documents one district designed to support alignment of their curriculum to the standards.

05/30/18, Jaime Pitkin

Classroom Strategies

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To Write or Not to Write? There is No Question! Part 2

Activities to support the connection between reading and writing

05/22/18, Dr. Deborah Glaser

Materials Adaptation, Tools and Resources

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Making enVisionmath 2.0 Work

An Introduction to Adapting enVisionmath 2.0 K-5

04/25/18, Anna Schattauer Paillé, Marni Greenstein

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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How much time do you need to create a foundation for literacy?

One coach’s reflection on increasing the foundational skills block

03/21/18, Lauren Hurley Wilson

Research and Reflections

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A Visit to Monticello-Brown Summit Elementary School

Though this literacy program uses leveled readers, it focuses on building knowledge through topic-based units and ensures students are not limited to a single reading level

02/28/18, Barbara Davidson, David Liben

Materials Adaptation

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Inside Implementation of Wit and Wisdom

Bringing complex content and instruction into a high-needs school district

01/04/18, Sarah Webb

Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Tools and Resources

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Three APPS to Support Students with Special Needs

Helping All Kids Grapple with Grade-Level Content

12/21/17, Dr. Bryan Drost

Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information

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Most-Read Articles of 2017

12/15/17, Student Achievement Partners

Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources

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Addressing unfinished learning in the context of grade-level work

Not all unfinished learning should be treated the same way

12/06/17, Christina Allison

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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Creating Student Empowerment Through Your Garden-Variety Graphic Organizer

How I use graphic organizers in my classroom to promote student independence

11/30/17, Alison Killy

Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources

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A Five-Course Meal Complete with Strategies for Assessment

Concrete strategies to help classroom educators get involved with assessment design

11/21/17, Bryan Drost

Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Tools and Resources

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The Many Positive Uses for Assessment

Three ways to use assessment for good

11/15/17, Rob Woodworth

Standards-Alignment Information

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Don’t be afraid to ask…

Advice for where to ask--and find answers--to your education questions

11/05/17, Student Achievement Partners

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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Designing Effective Homework

Best practices for creating homework that raises student achievement

10/13/17, Claire Rivero

Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections

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High-impact strategies for teaching writing with evidence at the high school level

An interdisciplinary PLC develops common strategies and rubrics to support student writing.

10/11/17, Mary Burt

Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources

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The Instructional Practice Toolkit: An Introduction

Learn how the Instructional Practice Toolkit can help teachers make connections between planning, instruction, and student outcomes.

09/22/17, Rachel Etienne

Classroom Strategies, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources

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Assessing Grammar and Language Convention Skills

New guidance explains how to assess writing skills through embedded-error passages and multiple-choice items

09/18/17, Laura Hansen, Katie Keown

Classroom Strategies

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Creating a Feedback Culture

Using effective feedback to help students master their learning goals

09/13/17, Andrea Raines

Classroom Strategies, Tools and Resources

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Blended Learning: The Station Rotation Model

Find out how a blended learning station-focused model can help you differentiate instruction and give ALL students the support they need to tackle grade-level work

09/06/17, Susan Hitt

Materials Adaptation

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Students JUMP at the Opportunity to Learn

Building confidence with JUMP Math’s guided discovery approach.

07/26/17, Melanie Greene

Materials Adaptation, Tools and Resources

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Finding Our Way in Fluency – A School’s Journey to Strengthen Math Fluency Instruction

A personal story of how educators built their knowledge of mathematics fluency from the ground up, and identified creative ways to help their students master fluency expectations

07/05/17, Amanda Davis, Catie Warren

Materials Adaptation

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Eureka Math – A View from Second Grade

An honest reflection on Eureka Math's strengths and challenges

06/16/17, Whitney Haynes

Materials Adaptation

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A Third Grade Teacher’s Perspective on Eureka Math

What does Eureka look like in the classroom?

05/22/17, Jessica Doughty

Materials Adaptation, Tools and Resources

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Adapting an ELA Curriculum for Standards-Based Learning

05/11/17, Cassie Mense

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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Limiting “Teacher Talk,” Increasing Student Work!

A team of teachers share strategies to increase student ownership in literacy

04/24/17, Tori Filler

Materials Adaptation, Tools and Resources

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Empowering Primary Math Teachers

How one school moved from contention to ownership of their math curriculum

03/27/17, Danielle Brown

Classroom Strategies, Research and Reflections

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At the Foundation of Foundational Skills: Structured Phonics

Learn how structured phonics instruction is critical to literacy development and a necessary part of an ELA curriculum

03/17/17, Carey Swanson

Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources

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Forming a United Whole – The Coherence Map

A K-12 STEM District Supervisor Explains How He Used the Coherence Map to Improve His District's Math Curriculum

03/13/17, Joshua Zagorski

Classroom Strategies

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The Wild West of Open Literacy Materials

Identifying and using high-quality, ELA Open Educational Resources successfully

02/21/17, Sarah Tierney, Tracey Waters

Materials Adaptation, Standards-Alignment Information

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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

Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation

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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