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Use Goal Setting to Grow Great Student Writers

How Can We Be Sure AI Advances Our Learning?

New Teacher’s Guide to Motivation & Engagement

Reigniting the Magic of Reading Physical Books

Why Kids Need to Talk in Math Class

How Do We Respond to Toxic Staff Members?

Why My 7th Graders Memorized the 50 States

5 Ways Leaders Provide Stability Amid Confusion

Teacher Think-Alouds Boost Reading Skills

4 Critical Moves If You Teach Kids from Immigrant Families

What Makes a Good Instructional Coach?

Writing Short Form Stories Grows Student Voice

Design STEM Projects Using the Plastics Crisis

Seven Essentials to Assure a Culture of Belonging

Reading Aloud as a Middle School Strategy

Getting Math Students to Show Their Reasoning

How I’m Using AI Bots with My Writing Classes

Dystopian Fiction to Stretch Students’ Minds

Authentic Inquiries Using Gummy Bear Science



Low-Prep and No-Prep Vocabulary Activities

6 Places to Find True Rigor in Your Classroom

Study Skills Strategies Middle Schoolers Need

Interactive Word Walls Enliven Vocabulary Learning

Literacy Strategies in the Middle School Science Lab

What Picture Books Add to a Middle School Classroom

Fun Ways for Students to Learn Through Argument

Spelling Matters in Middle School, Too

8 Strategies to Quickly Assess Prior Knowledge

A Crash Course in Teaching Academic Vocabulary

Unlock Academic Writing One Sentence at a Time

7 Principles of a Heart-Centered Classroom

SEL Picture Books for Middle School Advisory

I Can’t Hear You with All Your Talking

A Teacher’s Love Letter to Notice & Note

10 Ways to Sabotage Your Classroom Management

Starting a Writing Club Outside the Classroom

Teaching with Colleagues Expands Kids’ Learning

Teaching Students to Interrogate Photographs

Teaching Our Students to Value Their Strengths

3 Fun Activities for Teaching Statistics

How I Use Google Sheets to Organize Student Data

Teaching Our Students How to Be Text Savvy

Collaborative Instruction Energizes Co-Teaching

Can Teachers Measure Student Engagement?

What Research Tells Us About Classroom Decor

Effective 5-7 Minute Reading Conferences

Math: How to Differentiate the Teaching, Not the Task

Number Sense Builds a Strong Math Foundation

5 Reader Activities That Invite Higher Thinking

The Year I Figured Out Student Self-Assessment

Give Students Writing Feedback That Works

Real-World STEM Lessons

Five Questions to Help Kids Become Critical Readers

Tiered Activities Make Math More Inclusive

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