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
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Small Pivots to Access Complex Text Across the Curriculum
Reading strategies that help secondary students in all content areas
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Meet Students Where They Are Academically and Literally!
Three ways to use Edcite's Real-time Connect with students
Improving Accessibility for All Students
Remote Learning Tips and Tricks
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Enhancing Remote Learning and Student Engagement With Online Tools
Five tools to make virtual learning more social for students
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Which Types of Content Are Key in Content-Focused Professional Learning in Mathematics?
The Professional Learning Core Content in Math
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Designing Equitable Learning Environments
Intentional instructional practice decisions, with a specific focus on mathematics
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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
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What Is “Content-Focused Professional Learning”?
The Professional Learning Core Content in Mathematics & ELA/Literacy
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Amplifying Student Voices During Distance Learning
Using asynchronous tools to create a math share-out for the kindergarten classroom
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Growing Your Craft, Virtually!
Achieve the Core’s webinars can help your K-12 staff grow and reflect!
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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
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Digital Coaching Menus Bring the Professional Learning Principles To Life
Designing effective coaching sessions that reflect teacher needs
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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
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Class and Family Book Tasting During Distance Learning
Designing reading activities to engage K-12 students at home
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3 Recommendations for Supporting Early Elementary Students Remotely
A kindergarten teacher shares strategies and advice
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Coaching through the COVID-19 Crisis
Four suggestions for how to structure virtual instructional coaching
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Top 5 Resources for Learning Online
Free, standards-aligned resources to facilitate remote learning
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Mistakes Tell Us What Students Are Ready to Learn
Learning from students' mistakes to enhance instruction
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Not Your Mom’s Professional Development
What needs to change in professional learning design
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Designing for Equity (Teachers as Designers)
Helping folks who care about equity do equity.
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How Does Education Research Relate to My Practice?
Is your reading program working? What can you do to improve it?
Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources
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Top Posts of 2019
Read the most popular posts of the year!
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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
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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
Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources
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2019 Blog Contest
Creating Equity in the Classroom
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Designing and Integrating a Grade 3 Assessment on Fractions
A Q&A With Raven Redmond and Jennifer Ahearn
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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
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A New Way to Consider Cognitive Demand in ELA Assessments
A Framework for Text Complexity in ELA and Reading
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Laying a Solid Foundation of Literacy
Building Teacher Capacity with the Reading Foundational Skills
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Developing the Math Language Routines
Foster Student Participation Through Building Math Language, Practices, and Content
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Striving for Foundational Excellence
Country Heights' Journey Through Foundational Skills Instruction
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Quality Instructional Materials or Quality Professional Learning Opportunities for Teachers?
Support for educators serving English Learners
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Designing a Holistic Learning Experience
Why school communities must integrate social, emotional, and academic considerations into instructional planning
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Press Play
Using Podcasts and Documentaries to Supercharge Background Knowledge and Bolster Reading Comprehension
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Social Emotional Learning and Academic Content: A Natural Pairing
Reflections on how best practices for social emotional learning (SEL) and academic instruction are mutually supportive
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Three Simple Steps to Empowered Word-Learning
Using morphology, context clues, and outside resources to help students decipher word meanings
Classroom Strategies, Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources
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Top Blog Posts of 2018
Here are our top 25 most-visited posts of 2018.
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Encouraging a Growth Mindset through Art
Strategies for moving beyond "follow-the-leader" style art projects and developing an art curriculum that supports student learning across subjects
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Observing Reading Foundational Skills Instruction
Introducing a new tool to observe the components of foundational skills instruction
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Addressing Common Challenges with Student Writing
Why aren’t students successful writers and what can teachers do to help?
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Building A Culturally Responsive Classroom
Why building a culturally responsive classroom matters for the success of ALL students
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Engaging Students with #BookSnaps
Reinventing how your students discuss text within the classroom
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Formative Assessments and Feedback in the Digital Age
How implementing Pear Deck changed my classroom.
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Inspiring Writers
A process for supporting writing practice with K-2 English Language Learners
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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.
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Compelling Digital Lessons for English Learners
How to use the free WriteReader app to support English Language Learners
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The 3 R’s + 4 C’s = 7th Heaven (Part 2)
A technology integrationist introduces digital tools to support collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking.
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The 3 R’s + 4 C’s = 7th Heaven
A Technology Integrationist’s Guide to 21st Century Learning (Part 1)
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The Digital Coaching Menu: Four Reasons Why You Need One
Providing teachers with content-focused options for coaching support
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Understanding vocabulary standards: Building students’ skills
Differentiation between the vocabulary standards in the Reading and Language Strands
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Supporting Our Youngest Readers: Teaching the Skills of Reading
Why using decodable readers can be powerful
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Materials Alignment Quick Check
Introducing a new evidence catcher to facilitate instructional materials decisions
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Three APPS to Support Students with Special Needs
Helping All Kids Grapple with Grade-Level Content
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Addressing unfinished learning in the context of grade-level work
Not all unfinished learning should be treated the same way
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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
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Emerging Effects from CCSS
A high school math teacher shares examples of student progress following CCSS implementation
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A Five-Course Meal Complete with Strategies for Assessment
Concrete strategies to help classroom educators get involved with assessment design
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.
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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
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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
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Unfinished Learning in Math: How Do You Address it?
The role of coherence in ensuring all students stay on grade level
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Piloting the Instructional Practice Toolkit
Two curriculum specialists who piloted the professional learning resource share their experience
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Looking At and Learning From Student Work, Part Two: Now What?
An 8th grade teacher models the process of using writing analysis checklists to make plans for future writing instruction
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State of Our Classrooms: Instructional Materials
Findings from a 2017 survey about instructional materials usage among educators
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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
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Looking at, and Learning from, Student Writing
An introduction to the Vermont Writing Collaborative's Writing Checklists
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“We’re the best. Just trust us!”
Finding unbiased information about instructional materials.
Reading to Learn
Strategies to build a love of learning through content-rich nonfiction
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Demonstrating Conceptual Understanding of Mathematics Using Technology
Using free recording software to capture students’ solution methods and help teachers reflect on their instruction
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Five Places for Trusted Resource Recommendations
Amid the sea of free online materials and digital applications, here are five places we’d start our search.
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Empowering Primary Math Teachers
How one school moved from contention to ownership of their math curriculum
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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
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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.
