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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Textbooks: Who Needs Them?

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?

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

Collaborating for Multilingual Learners in the Real World

Thoughts on The Right to Read

Achieve The Core

Articles Tagged with “Equity in Education”

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The e² Instructional Practice Framework™: Toward a Vision for High-Quality Instruction

07/07/23, Silvestre Arcos, Jennie Beltramini, Dr. Diana Cordova-Cobo, Carey Swanson

Summer Reading Club 2023

06/21/23, Student Achievement Partners

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Practical Ideas to Support Newcomer Students

Building an understanding of how to support newcomers in the classroom.

04/20/23, Angelica Shornack

Challenging the Status Quo

How Chat GPT Can be the Key to Achieving Educational Equity

01/19/23, Zak Cohen

Equity = Challenge for ALL

12/13/22, Kimberly Bast

We’ve Come a Long Way, Fast

How Technology is Shaping the Modern Classroom in Unseen Ways

12/01/22, Zak Cohen

Learning From Mistakes: Easier Said Than Done

How can you turn mistake-making into mistake-learning in your classroom?

02/04/22, Zak Cohen

Debunking the Myth of the “Math Person”

What messages are we sending students?

11/19/21, Jessica Lauer Tilli

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What Is Academic Success (Student Learning)?

Reimagining how to foster academic success in the classroom and document students' growth

11/12/21, Dr. Abigail Amoako Kayser

Small Classroom Moves Can Make a Huge Impact on Student Confidence

How to “create safety in small”

10/25/21, Jo Lein

What Balanced Literacy Can Learn from Biliteracy

09/24/21, Dr. Lillian Ardell

The Power of Students’ Self-Perception

Countering stereotypes and promoting positive math self-identities

07/08/21, Alicia Tackitt

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A Stroke of Genius

Implementing culturally responsive teaching

06/22/21, Alexis Mays-Fields, Adrienne Williams

When Grades Don’t Motivate

Disrupting the grading system

06/04/21, Lindsay Prendergast, Dr. Roberto d’Erizans, Chris Thoms

Every Student Can Learn

Confronting entrenched beliefs about student ability

04/09/21, Kimberly Sarfde

What the Data Can’t Tell Us

Concerns about summative assessment in a pandemic year

03/25/21, Katie Keown, Astrid Fossum, Jun Li, John Young

Textbooks: Who Needs Them?

03/19/21, Devin Evans

Transforming Literacy Instruction

An opportunity to equitably accelerate students’ literacy development

03/03/21, Amy Briggs

Meeting the Needs of Every Student No Matter What

5 ways to meet students' academic and emotional needs

12/16/20, Tika Epstein

Students participating in digital classroom

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Centering Student Voice & Choice in a Remote Classroom

How student feedback changed classroom dynamics

08/30/20, Whitney Aragaki

Group discussion among adult professionals

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How Honestly Willing Are We to Create Equitable Opportunities and Experiences for All Students?

Transforming education by leading teachers to empower students

08/06/20, Carrie Rosebrock

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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

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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.

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Refocusing on Your Learners

5 ideas to create a student-centered classroom

05/28/20, Tamera Musiowsky-Borneman

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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

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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

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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

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I See Me

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

11/24/19, Tamika Peters

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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

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Creating a Feedback Culture

Using effective feedback to help students master their learning goals

09/13/17, Andrea Raines