Articles Tagged with “High School”
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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
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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Knowledge-Building Model Lessons for Middle and High School
Rethinking how we define “text” to engage older students and accelerate learning
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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
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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"
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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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Centering Student Voice & Choice in a Remote Classroom
How student feedback changed classroom dynamics
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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
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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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Distance Learning with Intention and Purpose
Ideas for engaging and connecting students during distance learning.
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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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Designing for Equity (Teachers as Designers)
Helping folks who care about equity do equity.
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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
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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
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Say “Author” (2019 Blog Competition Finalist)
Strategies for including all learners in discussions about complex text
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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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Addressing Common Challenges with Student Writing
Why aren’t students successful writers and what can teachers do to help?
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Doing Better: Aligned Instructional Practice
An overview of the Instructional Practice Guide suite of tools
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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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Making the Connection Between Materials and Instruction
Why instructional practice should be at the heart of all instructional materials decisions
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Seeing College- and Career-Ready Standards through Instruction
Exploring the updates to the Instructional Practice Guide
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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.
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Formative Assessments and Feedback in the Digital Age
How implementing Pear Deck changed my classroom.
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Three APPS to Support Students with Special Needs
Helping All Kids Grapple with Grade-Level Content
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The Math Gap Between High School and College
Educators at the high school and college levels aren't talking to each other. Should they be?
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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
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3 Steps to Engage Students in Research Writing
A high school teacher shares concrete suggestions for sparking curiosity and stimulating quality research questions
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Designing Effective Homework
Best practices for creating homework that raises student achievement
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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.
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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Creating a Feedback Culture
Using effective feedback to help students master their learning goals
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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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There has got to be a better way to do this! How to start an interdisciplinary PLC.
Insights on the value of interdisciplinary PLCs and how to create one in your school
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Digital Book Baskets for High School Classrooms
Students create their own high-interest text sets to build knowledge
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Lessons Learned from a High School Mathematical Modeling Lesson
A high school algebra teacher creates a lesson to engage her struggling students through real-world application
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8 Questions About High School Math and STEM
A high school algebra teacher shares her thoughts on high school math myths and misconceptions
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STEM Integration in Algebra: A Bridge to Opportunity
Relating mathematical thought processes to those in 21st Century careers
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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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Top 5 Questions About ELA Scaffolding in High School
What do we do when they “don’t get it”?
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Lessons Learned after Teaching without a Textbook
A high school teacher explores the lessons learned after moving away from a textbook-based curriculum.
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Taking Ownership over Assessments – A Case Study in Kentucky
Assessments should align to good standards-based instruction. Instruction shouldn’t align to a bad assessment.
Materials Adaptation, Research and Reflections, Standards-Alignment Information, Tools and Resources
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Training Materials for the ELA/Literacy IMET
New training modules on the IMET’s Non-Negotiables and Alignment Criteria
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Four APPS to Redefine Your Language Arts Curriculum
Focusing on building a student-centered classroom through digital applications
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Assessment Item Alignment Modules
Learn how examining assessment items can be a source of professional development and deepen your understanding of the Shifts
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Reason Abstractly and Quantitatively
A math teacher explains how well-designed materials can help students learn to deal with challenging math problems
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Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching
How building specific mathematical knowledge in teachers can strengthen classroom instruction
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Creating a Conducive Environment for Teachers to Adapt Materials
An administrator’s guide to promoting teacher innovation
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Why We’re Choosing Instructional Materials Blindly
A Brookings Institution report explains how much we DON’T know about instructional materials in use in today’s classrooms.
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Using Complex Texts with All Readers
A reading interventionist explains the strategies she uses to help struggling readers benefit from complex texts.
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Decision-Making that Matters: 10 Ways Teachers Can Impact Curricular Decisions
A high school English teacher shares 10 ways classroom teachers can influence curriculum
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Top Five Ways to Improve Your Basal Reading Program
If you’re not satisfied with your current basal reading program, here are five things you can do to improve it.
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Top Five Ways to Make the Most of Your Math Materials
If you’re not satisfied with the quality and CCSS-alignment of your existing math materials, here are five tips to improve them.
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Choosing Wisely: A Strategic Approach to Curriculum in Duval County
An interview with Dr. Nikolai P. Vitti, Superintendent of Duval County Public Schools
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The EQuIP Review Process and Rubric
Achieve created a rubric and review process to facilitate peer reviews
