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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Hosting a Schoolwide Poetry Project

Read Like an Artist

Art and Literacy Go Hand in Hand

Tools and Resources

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Discover new tools and materials to integrate into you instruction.

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Read Like an Artist

Art and Literacy Go Hand in Hand

Art is Key to a Culturally Relevant Education

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?

Which Types of Content Are Key in Content-Focused Professional Learning in Mathematics?

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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The Untapped Potential of Text Analysis

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

Research and Reflections

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

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Prerequisites in Mathematics

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

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Developing the Math Language Routines

Foster Student Participation Through Building Math Language, Practices, and Content

10/28/19, Jack Dieckmann, Renae Skarin

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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, 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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Instead of…Try This

Avoid common pitfalls in the ELA classroom with these strategies

10/03/17, Andrea Raines

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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

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Supporting All Learners with Complex Texts

Strategies to scaffold instruction of Standards-aligned, complex texts

08/17/16, Carey Swanson

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Sitting Beside the Learner: The ‘Me’ in Assessments

Common Core-aligned assessments must capitalize on teacher-student relationships

08/15/16, Bryan Drost

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Call for Common Core-Aligned Units

Achieve and SAP are looking for instructional materials aligned to the CCSS to address weaknesses in existing materials

10/15/15, Cristina Marks, Jeremy Thomas

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The EQuIP Review Process and Rubric

Achieve created a rubric and review process to facilitate peer reviews

10/08/15, Student Achievement Partners