Plus, When Reading Logs Backfire, What Can Teachers Do Instead?
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October 5, 2022

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4 Ways Classroom Design Impacts Executive Functioning 

Effective classroom design can help elementary students develop skills like organization and task initiation.

When Reading Logs Backfire, What Can Teachers Do Instead? 

To create life-long readers, ditch quotas, calendars, and logs—and replace them with strategies that get students talking about books and keeping track of the joy they experience reading.

Teaching Debate Across the Curriculum 

Debating helps students strengthen their communication and objective thinking skills, and practice patience and tolerance.

Fact Check: Are Flexible Student Deadlines at Odds With Real Life? 

Will flexibility around due dates deliver a reprieve for stressed-out students—or ruin them for real-world work? A high school teacher examines the practice.

How Culturally Responsive Practices Help Students Connect to School video icon

This bilingual elementary school offers students a more inclusive educational experience—through music and culturally relevant instruction.

5 Ways to Elevate the Effective Teaching Happening in Your School 

Principals can use these strategies to help all teachers on staff learn about the best teaching practices of their colleagues.

Discussion Protocols That Engage All Students 

Class discussions work best when everyone participates, and these strategies for grades 6 to 12 help ensure that happens.

How Administrators Can Help Ensure Teachers’ Success 

Effective leadership helps teachers feel heard, supported, and capable of weathering the challenges of their profession.

Encouraging Social and Emotional Learning Through the Arts 

Elementary students can build a sense of community and awaken a lifelong interest in the arts with these simple classroom strategies.

How to Make Fat Bear Week Part of Your Classroom Activities 

Giving students a peek into the lives of brown bears is a fun way to shake up science and math lessons and spark interest in animal conservation.

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