Category Archives: Articles

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Learning Step by Step

Teacher Mary Tarashuk says The Walking Classroom podcasts make it easy to combine skills and goals that meet CCSS & other standards across multiple content areas.

The Walking Classroom

Middle grades teacher Mary Tarashuk often yearned to spend more time outside, learning with her students. Now she's discovered The Walking Classroom program. Problem solved!

Here Come the Toy Ads

Toy commercials, so pervasive on TV during the holidays, are a great way to jump-start media literacy discussions with students. Expert Frank Baker has lesson ideas.

The Power of Teachers’ Words

Author Debbie Silver examines effective feedback, motivational praise, and the power inherent in the words teachers say to students about their work.

Media Literacy & Politics

Future voters and civic leaders need to understand how political messages are crafted so that they can see through the spin, says media literacy expert Frank Baker.

Watching Debates with Kids

Prepare your students to watch the Presidential Debates with these tips & tools from media literacy expert Frank Baker.

Change in the Forecast

We must stand up for students even if it makes us unpopular, writes Becky Bair. She shares some lessons learned about pushing for change in your school.

Cognitive Conditions for Learning

Students don't like school because we don't create the right cognitive conditions for learning. Bill Ivey reviews Dan Willingham's book.

From Resumé to Bucket List

In the last decade of her teaching career, NBCT Julie Dermody no longer thinks about her resumé. She's working on her bucket list. What's on yours?