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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Shaking Up High School Math

Executive Functions and Literacy Skills in the Classroom

Connecting and Communicating With Families to Help Break Down Barriers to Learning

Tools and Resources

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Discover new tools and materials to integrate into you instruction.

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Culture, Community, and Collaboration

Vertical Progression of Math Strategies – Building Teacher Understanding

“Can I have this? Can I have that?”

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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Helping Our Students See Themselves and the World Through the Books They Read in Our Classrooms

Textbooks: Who Needs Them?

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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Let’s Not Make Power ELA/Literacy Standards and Talk About Why We Didn’t

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

Not Your Mom’s Professional Development

Research and Reflections

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

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Summer Reading Club 2023

Synergy between College and Career Readiness Standards-Aligned Instruction and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Children Should be Seen AND Heard

Achieve The Core

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Part 9

Culture, Community, and Collaboration

How discovering student assets helped me create a culture of community and collaboration

08/16/23, Ariel McDaniel

5 Strategies to Create Spaces that Spark Interest and Investment

08/14/23, Rachel Fuhrman

Part 7

“Can I have this? Can I have that?”

What happens when students are able to request any tools they might want to help solve a problem?

07/26/23, Jana Bryant

Part 6

How Can We Uncover and Leverage What Students Do Know Rather Than What They Don’t Yet Know?

07/19/23, Rachel Erickson

Part 5

Classroom Structures and Math Milestones™

07/07/23, Katiria Caceres

Part 4

Using Math Milestones™ Tasks in a Vertical PLC

06/28/23, Dr. Beth Joswick

Part 3

Using a Task as a Pre-Assessment

06/21/23, Josh Deis

Part 2

Unexpected Assets: Beyond the “Right” Answer

Highlighting the Standards for Mathematical Practice in Math Milestones™ Tasks

06/15/23, Megan Smith

Inform and Empower Families about Math Instruction

05/04/23, Rachel Fuhrman

Part 1

Using Math Milestones to Activate Student Agency

01/06/23, Josh Deis

Part 2

Constantly Shifting Practice

How the Shifts of the Common Core changed instruction and still missed the mark

12/15/22, Katie Keown

We’ve Come a Long Way, Fast

How Technology is Shaping the Modern Classroom in Unseen Ways

12/01/22, Zak Cohen

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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

Math teacher explains online lesson to students

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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

Designing Equitable Learning Environments

Intentional instructional practice decisions, with a specific focus on mathematics

09/11/20, Amber Cook

Teacher teaching mathematics to students in a classroom

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Planning for Math Remediation

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

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

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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

Students engaged in a classroom and raising their hands.

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Refocusing on Your Learners

5 ideas to create a student-centered classroom

05/28/20, Tamera Musiowsky-Borneman

Student participating in a remote math classroom.

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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

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3 Recommendations for Supporting Early Elementary Students Remotely

A kindergarten teacher shares strategies and advice

04/17/20, Lindsay Arnold

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Top 5 Resources for Learning Online

Free, standards-aligned resources to facilitate remote learning

03/20/20, Tika Epstein

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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

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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

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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

Part 1

Most Misunderstood Math Standards in Grade 1

Are these instructional mistakes happening in your classroom?

09/23/19, Angie Miller

Part 3

Yarn Number Line: A Lever to Develop Fraction Understanding

A routine for developing conceptual understanding of fractions

04/18/19, Jennie Beltramini, Jody Guarino

Part 2

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

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Giving Students a Choice with Their Learning

Using academic choice boards to build metacognition

12/21/18, Tika Epstein

Part 5

Most Misunderstood Math Standards in Grade 5

Are these instructional mistakes happening in your classroom?

10/31/18, Rebecca Few

Part 4

Most Misunderstood Math Standards in Grade 4

Are these instructional mistakes happening in your classroom?

10/04/18, Rebecca Few

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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

Part 3

Most Misunderstood Math Standards in Grade 3

Are these instructional mistakes happening in your classroom?

09/13/18, Rebecca Few

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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

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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

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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

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Formative Assessments and Feedback in the Digital Age

How implementing Pear Deck changed my classroom.

07/06/18, Jeff Crayton

Part 4

Re-Teaching Doesn’t Always Mean Repeating

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

06/12/18, Kristi Gettelman

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Illuminating Interims

What makes a good interim assessment program?

06/07/18, Laura Hansen

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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

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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

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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

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Most-Read Articles of 2017

12/15/17, Student Achievement Partners

Part 2

Addressing unfinished learning in the context of grade-level work

Not all unfinished learning should be treated the same way

12/06/17, Chrissy Allison

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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

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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

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Designing Effective Homework

Best practices for creating homework that raises student achievement

10/13/17, Claire Rivero