- Learning Environments
27 Ways to Optimize Your Classroom Design for Better Learning
A research-based lineup of smart, effective classroom design tips that support deep learning, reduce distraction, and build belonging.Your content has been saved!
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Using Restorative Practices in Preschool
Rather than rely on external rewards or punishment, these classroom management strategies focus on building community.Your content has been saved!
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5 Manageable Ways to Maintain Consistent Communication
Arts teachers and others who work with all the students in a school can use a variety of tools to help ensure that they consistently reach all families.Your content has been saved!
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Establishing Connections in a New Classroom Community
This low-stakes get-to-know-you game builds community, confidence, and curiosity—key ingredients for a positive classroom culture.Your content has been saved!
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Remembering More Than Your ‘Why’
When teachers focus on their purpose and practice, they can develop and bolster habits that support their success as educators.112Your content has been saved!
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A Grounding Practice for Principals
Reflecting and reframing before responding can help administrators preserve relationships and lead with clarity—even in the heat of the moment.121Your content has been saved!
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- Teaching Strategies
Keep, Eliminate, Adapt
As a new school year begins, these three verbs can help teachers reflect on the practices they want to bring into their classrooms.150Your content has been saved!
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How to Thrive in a New Leadership Role
A good way to approach tough choices as a new administrator is to ask yourself: Is this decision best for kids?159Your content has been saved!
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Strategies for Taking Advantage of AI as a New Administrator
AI can help school administrators save time, improve their communication, and focus their attention where it matters.184Your content has been saved!
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Creating Your Classroom Space and Culture With Students
Spatial, visual, and auditory cues can help students feel that they belong in the classroom.
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- Classroom Management
Managing Your Class Without Collective Punishment
Even in moments of frustration, teachers can hold disruptive students accountable without punishing the class as a group.1.5kYour content has been saved!
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Using a Learning Map to Build Exemplary PBL Units
By developing—and revisiting—an instructional roadmap that connects standards, activities, and skill development, these teachers put students on a path toward mastery. - Brain-Based Learning
7 Study Habits to Teach Kids This School Year
Studying is critical to academic success—but many students have never been shown how to do it effectively. - English Language Learners
Helping Young Multilingual Learners Develop Their Metacognitive Skills
An educator explains how students can more easily access common supports like visuals, sentence frames, and pair-share.567Your content has been saved!
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Intentionally Slowing Down to Ensure That Students Learn Material Deeply
Teachers who are tempted to race through the curriculum to cover everything may want to reconsider and slow down a bit so that students can learn the most important content better.
- Integrated Studies
Combining Science and Music for Deeper Learning
Elementary music teachers can incorporate scientific concepts into lessons so students get a multilayered learning experience. - Integrated Studies
A Hands-On Approach to Interdisciplinary Learning
By integrating multiple subjects in a cohesive project, teachers can empower students to think flexibly and persist through challenges. - Project-Based Learning (PBL)
7 Projects Teachers Stand By
Planning for projects can be difficult and time-consuming. This list of teacher-tested projects—complete with printable resources—should offer a big head start. - Integrated Studies
Celebrating Pi Day Across the Curriculum
Engaging, informative Pi Day activities designed for middle school math, ELA, science, and social studies. - Integrated Studies
Integrating Math Into Elementary PE
Teachers can work together to reveal the ways that math concepts are already present in PE activities.
- Instructional Coaching
How to Change Up Intervention Groups
When students in intervention groups progress at different rates, it’s important to reconfigure the groups so all students do appropriately challenging work. - Differentiated Instruction
How to Implement UDL in Kindergarten
Teachers can take a practical approach to Universal Design for Learning to ensure that their students’ diverse needs are met.185Your content has been saved!
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What to Do When Students Find an Assignment Boring
If an assignment isn’t winning elementary students over, ask them to figure out how to make it more meaningful to them. - Differentiated Instruction
Using Station Rotation to Engage Students in Meaningful Math Work
This strategy for differentiating instruction can help increase elementary and middle school students’ involvement in their learning.317Your content has been saved!
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How to Motivate Students by Thinking Smaller
A framework for setting up playful, purposeful explorations can help increase student agency, one tiny experiment at a time.206Your content has been saved!
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- Instructional Coaching
Collaboration Tips to Help Instructional Coaches Maximize Their Impact
Working with peers helps instructional coaches grow their repertoire of strategies, to the benefit of teachers and students.426Your content has been saved!
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Using Peer-to-Peer Observations to Support New Teachers
Instructional coaches can support novice teachers by facilitating a meaningful process of peer feedback.323Your content has been saved!
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A 5-Step Plan for Encouraging Teachers to Implement Technology in Lessons
Making sure teachers are involved in implementing new technology can help them feel more comfortable with using it.228Your content has been saved!
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How to Select Effective PD Facilitators
An impactful coach—who may be among your staff—can make in-service days more meaningful and engaging for teachers.249Your content has been saved!
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How Instructional Coaches Can Help Teachers Use Data More Effectively
Continuous progress monitoring aids schools in designing targeted interventions to help all students learn.
