"Young people dealing with the effects of the pandemic can be encouraged through lessons that inspire resilience." Read the full article by Heather Wolpert-Gawron, author of Just Ask Us, on Edutopia.
"Young people dealing with the effects of the pandemic can be encouraged through lessons that inspire resilience." Read the full article by Heather Wolpert-Gawron, author of Just Ask Us, on Edutopia.
"The need to partner with caregivers is even more important now with so many students learning at home." Read the full article by Heather Wolpert-Gawron, author of Just Ask Us, on Edutopia.
"The popular lesson framework can help keep remote teaching manageable while encouraging students to develop self-reliance." Read the full article by Paul Emerich France, author of Humanizing Distance Learning, on Edutopia.
"Teachers are learning a lot this year, and keeping a portfolio will help when it’s time to reflect on that learning." Read the full article by Monica Burns, author of #FormativeTech, on Edutopia.
In this excerpt from The Poverty Problem, discover how a strange sequence of events and one individual’s
arbitrary decision shaped the nation’s thinking and behavior toward poverty.
In this webinar, Ricky Robertson, author of Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences, focuses on a whole-staff approach to foster resilience in both students living with ACEs and the professionals who work with them in America's rural, suburban, and urban schools.
Summarizing is a great way to know if a student is understandning the main point of the reading. In this activity from The Big Book of Literacy Tasks, Grades K-8, the student will write a news story to another student explaining the most important points to know from the text read the day before.
Much like the adage “a rising tide lifts all boats,” displaying students’ writing about reading gives all students the opportunity to learn from—and aspire to— the ways of thinking of peers. Check out this activity from What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? Nonfiction, Grades 3-8 to learn how to create an effective inspiration wall for your classroom.
This Peer-Assisted Reflection (PAR) activity from Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 3-5, helps you develop strategies for process feedback, which is critical as learners explore the why and the how of specific mathematics content.
Whether you will be building your STEAM physical space in your regular classroom setting, have an already-defined STEAM lab in your school, or are conceptualizing other ideas for STEAM physical spaces, consider the following excerpt from Step Into STEAM, Grades K-5, to understand what a STEAM classroom atmosphere looks like—and doesn’t look like.
This lesson from the Teacher's Guide included with Becoming an Assessment-Capable Visible Learner, Grades 6-12, Level 1: Classroom Pack is set up to help you support your students in asking the right questions to get the feedback that they need.
In this excerpt from Real Talk about Classroom Management, author Serena Pariser shares her secret to creating a purposeful seating chart based on students’ academic abilities, learning disabilities, language barriers, and more, rather than simply separating the students that “shouldn’t be together” and sprinkling the rest around, hoping for the best.