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SEL Environment Culture

Improving your classroom culture and environment begins even before students enter! Consider using SEL competencies as you plan physical space and procedures.

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Scaffolding: Temporary Supports Build a Lasting Foundation

Just as scaffolding in architecture is temporary, educators provide temporary extra support as students learn and increase their understanding.

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Scaffolding, Start to Finish

Scaffolds can be included in content, tasks or materials to meet students’ needs. They can occur during both instruction and practice.

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Scaffolding: Getting Started

Scaffolding supports student success by providing purpose, explaining expectations, increasing independence, and motivating mastery.

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Scaffolding, Simplified.

Scaffolding supports student success by providing purpose, explaining expectations, increasing independence, and motivating mastery.

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Use Curriculum Integration to Increase Engagement

Curriculum integration is one way to actively engage students in learning and extend their thinking skills. Learn three models to boost engagement.

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Apply It: Activities for Spelling and Writing Composition

The fifth in a five-part blog series focusing on specific interventions for ELA learners provides spelling and writing activities as students readjust to in-person learning environments.

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Reading Activities for Comprehension and Analysis, Part 2

The fourth in a five-part blog series focusing on specific interventions for ELA learners provides listening and speaking activities as students readjust to in-person learning environments.

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Reading Activities for Comprehension and Analysis Part 1

Article: Learn intervention activities, including the retelling bracelet, to boost student reading comprehension and success.

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Activities for Foundational Reading Skills

The second in a five-part blog series focusing on specific interventions for ELA learners provides foundational reading skills activities.

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3 Activities to Build Listening and Speaking Skills

The first in a 5-part series focusing on interventions for ELA provides intervention activities to build listening and speaking skills.

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Looking for Cognitive Rigor in All the ‘Right’ Places

Cognitive rigor encompasses three key ideas: the complexity of the content, the cognitive engagement with that content (sometimes called Depth of Knowledge/DOK), and the scope or breadth of the learning activity.

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Social and Emotional Growth Through Science Investigation

Often, science lessons include investigations conducted collaboratively. These situations are the perfect avenue for students to begin building the skill of self-awareness and more. 

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Social Emotional Learning in the Mathematics Classroom

As mathematics educators, we want students to know the joy and importance of math! The question is, how do we get students to value the importance of math and value their contribution to their learning?

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Unwrapping SEL Activities

This blog series will focus on social and emotional learning (SEL) and its benefits for helping students manage emotions and build healthy relationships. Each blog post will provide ideas and strategies for implementing the five areas of SEL in a variety of grade levels.

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Uncovering Lit Ideas for SEL

This blog series will focus on social and emotional learning (SEL) and its benefits for helping students manage emotions and build healthy relationships. Each blog post will provide ideas and strategies for implementing the five areas of SEL in a variety of grade levels.

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Unmasking Social and Emotional Learning

This blog series will focus on social and emotional learning (SEL) and its benefits for helping students manage emotions and build healthy relationships. Each blog post will provide ideas and strategies for implementing the five areas of SEL in a variety of grade levels.

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The Science of Reading—Building Your Toolbox

Reading—it’s a Science! This blog series will focus on the elements of the Science of Reading, orthographic mapping, decoding, and practical applications for teachers.

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The Science of Reading—Your Most Powerful Tool

Reading—it’s a Science! This blog series will focus on the elements of the Science of Reading, orthographic mapping, decoding, and practical applications for teachers.

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Why Learning to Read is Difficult & How the Science of Reading Can Help

Reading—it’s a Science! This blog series will focus on the elements of the Science of Reading, orthographic mapping, decoding, and practical applications for teachers.

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Nurturing Deeper Conversations with Students

Who owns the talk in our classrooms today? Is it teachers or students?

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7 Quick and Easy Self-care Tips for Teachers

A day in the life of most teachers is demanding and filled with challenges. Here are 7 quick and easy…

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Climbing Back Up Safely

Educators are being presented with a challenging question: How can we create an effective learning environment this fall, address learning…

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Trauma-Informed Teaching through Interest- and Choice-Based Learning

About 50 percent of kids in school have experienced some form of trauma, according to ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences). As…

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7 Tips for Weaving SEL into Everyday Instruction

SEL skills are strongly linked with academic achievement and improved participation in school, work, and life.

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Creating a Thinking Culture on Your Campus

Now more than ever, educators are tapping into new skills and technology to promote student growth and help them develop…

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The Time is Now—Social and Emotional Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic is still significantly impacting the lives of our students. We, as educators, must not forget to infuse…

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The How, Who, Where, and When of Project-Based Learning

Let’s continue our exploration of Project-Based Learning by looking at the who, where, when, and how of PBL. (Take a…

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How to Help Students Ask Great Questions

Often students are pushed to develop questions on the spot, with little to no framework. Unsurprisingly, this often leads to…

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The Magic of Wrong Answers

Of course, no one wants to get an answer wrong. However, when a student comes up with a response that…

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How to Engage Elementary Students with Project-Based Learning

A fifth-grade class is hard at work. Posted on the board is the question the students plan to answer: How…

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7 Ways Students Stamp Out Bullying

No one likes a bully—or so it’s been said. Over the years, bullying has been a major concern for everyone….

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2 Thinking Frameworks: Bloom’s Plus DOK Infographic

Critical thinking frameworks can be a huge help for teachers as they lesson plan, but knowing which one to use…

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4 Keys to Boost Student Questioning

“Does anyone have any questions?” Silence fills the room. The teacher waits the customary three seconds and then moves on…

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8 Ways to Empower Bystanders of Bullying

Bullying and cyber bullying usually involve 3 distinct personas—bullies, victims, and bystanders. The bully and victim roles are usually obvious…

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Practical Ways to Use Taxonomies like Bloom’s and SOLO

Thinking frameworks help teachers analyze the various levels of student thinking that are present in lessons, tasks, and assessments. Knowing…

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Beyond “Sit and Get”: Four Classroom Strategies for Integrating Critical Thinking and Kinesthetic Learning

There was a time when teacher-centered learning, or “sit and get,” was the classroom norm: the teacher would stand in…

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Tips for Using Music in the Classroom

If you want to spice up your curriculum with something new, take a look at these tips for incorporating music into the classroom.

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Continuing Your Education as a Teacher

When teachers decide to become students again, a whole new set of questions is raised. Talking to a career coach and your own administration can be key in finding the best path forward.

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Resource Roundup: Critical Thinking

As educators, we have a common goal: get our students to think outside of the box. We know when students…

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Tips for Teaching Mastery

While many classes focus on teaching a broad range of skills, it can often be more beneficial to help students master subject matter by delving more deeply into just a few concepts.

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Tips for Achieving Deeper Learning

Teachers need to consistently go above and beyond the call of duty to strive for deeper learning – a process by which students are not only engaging with curriculum but also retaining it.

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Assessing Creativity in Students

Take a look at these tips for assessing creativity in students and try implementing a few of them in your classroom.

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Our Top 3 Tips for Collaborating on Classroom Rules

If you’re weighing your options between making your own classroom rules near the end of summer or waiting for the school year, check out these suggestions for involving your students in the process.

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Advice for Guiding Behavior on a Field Trip

If you’re planning a field trip with your students this semester or academic year, you’ll want to do everything in your power before the actual event to ensure that it goes smoothly.

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Using Music in the Classroom

Take a look at some suggestions for finding new ways to use music in your instruction.

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Tips for Introducing Pets into the Classroom

Before you begin the process of bringing an animal into your classroom, you may want to consider these tips

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Technological Alternatives to Classic Classroom Lessons

Whether or not you’re crazy about the idea, technology is becoming more and more integrated into educational strategies and the way that we deliver instruction to our students.

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Making Your PowerPoint Presentations More Engaging

Every teacher has their own preferred set of methods when it comes to designing creative curriculum.

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Managing technology in your classroom

The recent surge in affordable and simple to use technologies has led to a drastic rise in the ability to integrate technology into your creative curriculum.

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Celebrating Individual Students in Your Classroom

If you establish a classroom culture in which your students feel not only welcome but also wanted, then you will have an environment far more conducive to facilitating learning.

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Enhancing Parent Teacher Communication

If you’re hoping to enhance your parent teacher communication practices, take a look at these three tips.

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Teaching Tolerance in the Classroom

Tolerance is a prime example of something that can make or break a classroom.

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Tips for Helping Students Apply to College

If you’re looking for some brief advice on how to help your students apply to college, take a look at these few tips

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Using Exercise Balls in the Classroom

One of the more interesting trends to emerge as of late has been the arrival and implementation of exercise balls into student seating arrangements.

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Integrating e-book readers into classrooms

Take a look at a few of the ways that e-books and e-readers can help better your instruction and the learning experience of your students.

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Arranging Your Classroom for Optimum Engagement

Whether you’re preparing for a new class of students to enter your room this academic year or simply trying to revamp your current arrangement, take a look at these tips for bettering classroom engagement through tactical design

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November is National Novel Writing Month

Autumn continues to be an excellent time for teachers, because with Connected Educators Month behind us, National Novel Writing Month is in full swing.

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Turning the Classroom Upside Down

Flipped classroom models reverse the way in which students have traditionally been taught.

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Comparing Content Area and Disciplinary Literacy

When discussing the literacy strategies of K-12 students, one is likely to encounter two oft-used terms: content area literacy and disciplinary literacy.

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Technology and Classroom Management

Ask any teacher and they’ll tell you that they’ve struggled with classroom management at some point in their career.

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What We Can Learn About Differentiation From UDL

For teachers working to incorporate an integrated curriculum into their classrooms, understanding the pedagogical philosophy of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) may help reinforce the need for differentiation.

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Maker Movement 101

Though the maker movement has deep roots, this learning strategy has recently been attracting lots of attention in the world of education. 

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5 STEM Resources for Teachers

One of the most important reasons educators across the country are moving toward an integrated curriculum is to prepare students to be part of a STEM workforce.

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BYOD: Bring Your Own Device

Implementing a bring-your-own-device policy in your classroom is a great way to work toward an integrated curriculum.

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Student Infographics

If you’re looking for ways to develop a more creative curriculum for the coming school year, consider challenging students to design infographics.

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Classroom Tech Management Tips

When implementing an integrated curriculum, it’s imperative that teachers be able to manage their classrooms while students are using Internet-equipped devices.

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Tips for Talking Tech with Parents

For some educators, it might be challenging to explain all the benefits of an integrated curriculum to parents.

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October is Connected Educators Month

For the past two years, October has been Connected Educators Month (CEM), an opportunity for teachers across the country to network, share learning strategies, and discuss curriculum integration.

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3 Simple Classroom Management Secrets for New Teachers

For new teachers, one of the main challenges might simply be finding a firm structure of management and discipline that works.

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Google Shows Teacher Appreciation with New Classroom App

Google is among several tech firms such as Microsoft and Apple that are courting educational systems to invest in devices and applications.

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Theories of Self-Regulation

Self-regulated learning, often abbreviated to SRL, is a pedagogical technique in which students utilize metacognitive strategies to evaluate their individual progress and consider their educational motivation.

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Social and Emotional Learning

Social and emotional education teaches students to become healthy members of society.

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Personalizing Project-Based Learning for Your Classroom

There are ways to ensure not only that project-based learning is appropriately rigorous for today’s standards, but also that it engages each individual student.

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How to Scaffold Your Instructional Strategies

Scaffolding is a process by which you can make sure students are receiving the instructional support they need in their education without being overbearing.

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Your Classroom Decor May be Inhibiting Effective Study Skills

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that heavily decorated elementary school classrooms can be disruptive to student learning.

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Integrating Social Media into the Classroom

The Internet revolution is connecting people from across the world in new and meaningful ways, and even young elementary school students can benefit from exposure to social media platforms.

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Use the Storypath Instructional Strategy to Engage Students in Social Studies

One of the most frustrating things for a teacher is a student who is unwilling to engage in a lesson or unit.

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Quick and Easy Formative Assessment Strategies

Monitoring student progress is critical to the educational process.

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Teaching Tips for Arranging Your Classroom

Students are heavily influenced by their learning environments.

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Coding in the Classroom

In today’s modern society, computer skills are becoming as universal as literacy skills. 

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How to Deal With Angry Parents

Often the greatest challenges a teacher faces come not from their students, but rather, from their students’ parents.

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Teaching Effective Study Skills

As students begin to make the transition from the structured learning environment of K-12 education to the looser collegiate model, proper study techniques become more and more important.

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Critical Thinking is a Key for Increasing Student Engagement

Motivating students to become active participants in their own education is often a difficult task.

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Using Creative Writing to Improve Literacy

The increased focus on literacy has challenged teachers to explore strategies for including more reading and writing in their daily instruction.

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Five Steps for Setting Student Goals

As the second half of the school year draws near, it’s the perfect time to assess how far your students…

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