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My Students Can’t Write!: Strategies for Scaffolding On-Demand Writing

Teachers around the country are faced with a pervasive issue: students can’t write in their classrooms. When tasked with what most would believe to be a simple task such as responding to an open-ended prompt, students face myriad challenges from forming an idea to writing […]

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4 Strategies to Build an Inclusive, Brave Community in Your Classroom This Year

Think about some of the more difficult or challenging subjects that you and your students will encounter this school year. Maybe it’s a difficult concept in a text or in the curriculum, or perhaps a topic that elicits strong, conflicting perspectives from students. Of course, […]

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Math Proficiency for All: Part 1

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As a new school year begins, teachers and leaders are already planning intervention support for students who are not currently meeting grade-level math standards. Rather than defaulting to traditional remediation practices that have produced disappointing results and failed to position students for future success, let’s […]

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Learn to Collaborate in Support of Multilingual Learners with Exceptionalities

“Collaborator” is a powerful word in education circles that a growing number of teachers use to describe themselves. From speaking to many of you, we know that strong collaborative relationships between educators are needed to support student success. More specifically, collaboration on behalf of multilingual […]

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Building Your Habit of “Keeping Cool” as a Teacher Working in a Hustle Culture

As the summer winds down and school doors reopen for returning educators at a steady pace, there may be scarcely a hint of difference in the range of emotion experienced by teachers as by students themselves: excitement, wonder, anxiety, anticipation, uncertainty, confidence, and even doubt. […]

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Navigating Plagiarism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, AI tools have found a place in education– whether welcome or not. This rapid integration and use by teachers and students has brought with it widespread concern around plagiarism and cheating. In fact, a district director of technology […]

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STEAM-Y Read Alouds: Igniting Curiosity and Expanding Knowledge

Peering through a magnifying glass, Cai compares the seashell in his hand to the others on the table. Across the room, the clatter of collapsing plastic cups rings out; yet Sylvia and Bella remain undeterred as they rebuild their structure. In Mr. Park’s classroom, STEAM-related […]

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This Year, Commit to Measuring Initiative Impact

What’s measured matters. So why, in the world of school-based initiatives, isn’t measuring our efforts and impact the regular and requisite element of practice it should be? I’ve seen amazing programs over the course of my initiative adventures. And I’ve evaluated a fair number that […]

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Cross-Cultural Competencies Every Educator Should Develop

The United States’ social and cultural journey toward desegregation has always centered on removing and preventing segregation by changing systems. A simultaneous need for the US has also been to desegregate the individual from the racial hierarchy that permitted systems of segregation. More specifically, desegregating […]

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It’s Time to Value Fantasy Writing!

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Even though fantasy is a genre that students love to write in, they rarely get the opportunity to write fantasy stories in school. It’s time to disrupt the status quo in writing instruction and raise fantasy writing to the status of a “must write” genre […]

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