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Webinar: PLC+: The Plus is YOU
Webinar: PLC+: The Plus is YOU

Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Almarode, authors of PLC+, discuss how they place student learning, effective teaching, and a focus on equity at the heart of what we all strive to accomplish. Learn how PLC+ provides a framework for the planning and implementation of student learning, teacher professional learning, and cycles of assessment and reflection that direct next steps.

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How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most
How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most

What if the key to increasing the long-term impact of our classrooms and schools was doing fewer things much better? Read the full blog from Dave Stuart Jr., author of These 6 Things, to learn more about how to focus your teaching on what actually matters.

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Clarifying Transfer: The Ultimate Goal of Learning
Clarifying Transfer: The Ultimate Goal of Learning

"They want kids to see the world differently, and to be empowered to act differently, because of what they have learned. It seems that the goal of all learning—not just conceptual understanding—is transfer." Read more from Julie Stern, author of Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, on Corwin Connect.

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Routine 4: Two Wrongs and a Right
Routine 4: Two Wrongs and a Right

This lesson from Daily Routines to Jump-Start Math Class, High School, allows student to work through multiple mathematical arguments in order to identify the errors in the argument. Students will have the opportunity analyze these errors in order promote higher level thinking in their path to finding the correct argument. 

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“No Secrets” Teaching That Supports Student Agency
“No Secrets” Teaching That Supports Student Agency

"Our underperforming, low-confidence students need teachers who understand how they learn and who communicate that they care. The instructional strategies listed below are productive for all students, but they are essential for underperforming, low-confidence students."

Read more from Jon Saphier, author of High Expectations Teaching, on Corwin Connect.

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How to Inspire All Students to Believe in Themselves
How to Inspire All Students to Believe in Themselves

"How do we help students to believe in themselves—to believe they can master complex content and that effort determines their academic success? If they are behind academically, it’s not because there is something wrong with their brains or their 'ability' is deficient."

Read more from Jon Saphier, author of High Expectations Teaching, on Corwin Connect.

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Establishing Norms for Mathematical Argumentation
Establishing Norms for Mathematical Argumentation

"In the past, and even many classrooms today, a math class involved the teacher presenting a lesson, then students practicing the procedures therein, and the teacher correcting students along the way. But things are changing!"

Read more from Teresa Lara-Meloy, author of Mathematical Argumentation in Middle School-The What, Why, and How, on Corwin Connect.

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STEAM Education for Each and Every Student
STEAM Education for Each and Every Student

"In our work with schools and districts developing integrated STEAM infrastructures, we have found that STEAM instruction can deepen students’ mathematics and science learning, serve as an avenue to engage each and every student, and expose students to STEAM careers (Bush & Cook, 2019)."

Read more from Kristin Cook and Sarah Bush, authors of Step Into STEAM, Grades K-5, on Corwin Connect.

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Tech Tools Recommendation: Flipgrid
Tech Tools Recommendation: Flipgrid

In this excerpt from 50+ Tech Tools for School Counselors, the authors recommend Flipgrid, a video discussion tool where prompts are provided by the educator for each discussion topic and then participants respond via video responses, allowing for more in-depth responses than surveys and text allow. 

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Unpacking the Practice: Anticipating Student Responses
Unpacking the Practice: Anticipating Student Responses

This practice activity from The Five Practices in Practice, Elementary, by Margaret “Peg” Smith, Victoria Bill, and Miriam Gamoran Sherin involves thinking about different ways students might solve the task, planning to respond to students using assessing and advancing questions, and preparing to notice key aspects of students’ thinking in the midst of instruction. 

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Frontloading Move 2: Where Do I Stand?
Frontloading Move 2: Where Do I Stand?

This activity from Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12, primes and orients students through discussion of controversial concepts that they will explore in the unit. Students also practice complex processes like making claims, supporting reasoning with evidence, listening and mirroring, summarizing, and addressing opposing viewpoints and reservations to their own thinking.

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Visualization Move 2: Picture Mapping
Visualization Move 2: Picture Mapping

In this activity from Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12, students will use a picture map to walk through the skills of (1) identifying key details and capturing the connections among them in order to (2) identify topics, then (3) identify patterns of key details in order to identify main ideas and make deeper meaning of the text.

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