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Teaching strategies, classroom management, education reform, educational technology -- if it has something to do with teaching, we're talking about it. Jennifer Gonzalez interviews educators...
It can ruin even the most carefully designed lessons: An activity you had planned takes way longer than you thought it would. Or worse, it t...
When a student behaves in a way that disrupts their own learning or someone else's, our response is often limited to a reprimand or a punish...
Students are coming to school with more needs than ever, and a lot of those needs aren't strictly academic: anxiety, withdrawal, behavior is...
There's been no shortage of conversation about the science of reading over the past several years. But writing barely comes up, even though...
Have you ever watched students sit completely silent in math class, only to come alive the moment they're asked to share an opinion? That's...
When our students face challenges in the classroom, some teachers double down on control and rigor: tighter rules, firmer consequences, high...
Teaching students to write well has always been challenging, and newer developments have made it even more difficult: The internet offers un...
We're kicking off the year like we always do, with a round-up of six educational tech tools we think are worth a look. On the list this year...
We're living in a time when having a difference of opinion is a potential minefield of hurt feelings, emotional outbursts, and severed relat...
Neurodivergent educators, like those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other forms of cognitive diversity, are essential voices in our school...
If we're doing our jobs right as educators, students will gradually become independent, self-directed learners capable of monitoring, direct...
If your teaching requires students to read or work with texts, and things have gotten a little stale in the engagement department, this epis...
Concept maps are graphic organizers or visual representations of knowledge. They're simple, they're low-tech, and they're incredibly powerfu...
At a time when test-driven reform has quieted student voices and marginalized perspectives are being pushed aside, we need student voice and...
Project-based learning can be a powerful instructional framework, but it is often structured in ways that exclude students who need a differ...
Answering student questions is faster in the moment, but redirecting is better in the long run. The next time a student asks you a question,...
Sometimes the best instructional materials are sitting right in our classrooms. At a time when AI threatens to make human writing obsolete,...
We're living in troubling times. When you're surrounded by so much chaos and confusion, it can be hard to figure out where to put your focus...
The practice of collecting supplies and distributing them to all students over the school year has become a common practice in elementary sc...
If the thought of decorating your classroom fills you with anxiety, or if you're just ready to try something different, I have good stuff fo...
As a life-long reader, English teacher Dan Tricarico wanted to bring the love of reading to his high school students, but the constant, irre...
Although most teachers understand that not all students have the same home life, sometimes we forget how big those differences can really be...
Most special education efforts have focused on giving students with disabilities better access to the curriculum — but access alone isn't en...
If you want to have the kind of classroom where students do more than just sit and listen, it's likely that your plans may include activitie...
While the shift to restorative practices should be improving student behavior, that's not happening in every school. Some teachers say the d...
If I give my students an exit slip to check their grasp of a particular skill, and a third of them don't do well, just moving forward with m...
Since ChatGPT's arrival in late 2022, the top concern I've heard from teachers is that students will stop doing their own writing and rely e...
Lots of teachers give students some kind of questionnaire at the beginning of a school year to get to know them, but what do you do with tha...
Retrieval practice is the act of trying to recall something you learned from memory by doing things like taking a test or using flashcards i...
We talk a lot about differentiating instruction, measuring growth, and preparing students for the real world, but how do you actually do tha...
Grammar has never been an especially popular area of study, and teaching it has frustrated many English teachers throughout time. It seems l...
Research shows that adding physical or hand gestures to a learning experience, especially ones that have some meaning to them, can significa...
This episode is for everyone and anyone. In it, I'll share five techniques that will encourage any person you're talking to to go a little m...
If you're doing an activity that requires students or participants to volunteer to participate, this is a fun way to choose them. ----------...
Recent executive orders have launched an attack on teaching for diversity, equity, and inclusion. How do you teach at this precarious time i...
You can create the most spectacular lesson plans, but if all of your students aren't in the room when those plans are executed, catching the...
One of the best-kept secrets in teaching is that frequent quizzing leads to better learning. If you can incorporate more ungraded or low-sta...
When we make certain choices, often without even realizing it, we can turn a teaching moment from one that should be clear into one that's c...
In a classroom that is emotionally "cool," no one is preoccupied with any kind of anger, hurt feelings, anxiety, or fear, and this frees the...
As our understanding of the human mind gets more sophisticated and nuanced, we're learning how to identify neurodivergence, how to appreciat...
As you move through your career, you'll discover new ways of doing things that you're excited about — so excited that you want to share them...
To become skilled readers, our students need reading instruction in all of their classes, not just English language arts. But if other subje...
When student behavior starts driving you bananas, and you feel like you're going to yell, this simple notebook technique can regulate your n...
It's our annual round-up of tools for educators, and this time along with it, we're announcing the launch of the online version of our Teach...
It can happen to the best of us — classroom management deteriorating over time. Don't despair! By figuring out where the problems are, you c...
Multitasking isn't great for our brains, it compromises our mental health, and ultimately it doesn't even work, but that doesn't stop many o...
For many this week, the discomfort and pain of living side by side with people who see the world so differently from us has hit hard. But th...
Books are one of the most powerful ways to learn about others and about ourselves. But for that learning to happen, we need a wide range of...
Any time we teach our students something, we need to check to see how well they learned it. If we only do this check at the very end, after...
If our students are going to thrive, they all need to feel safe, accepted, and loved while under our care. This week, we're focusing on what...