How Student Work Models Make Rubrics More Effective
Without models of student work to validate and ground them, rubrics are often too vague for students to be useful.
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14 Messages Every Student Needs To Hear From You
One message every student should hear from you: “The word ‘smart’ doesn’t mean anything so you and I aren’t going to use it anymore.”
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50 Classroom Procedures Students Need To Know
From how digital assignments are turned in to what students should do if they’re confused, here are 50 common classroom procedures.
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Simple Tips For Teachers Communicating With Parents
Build relationships with parents at the beginning of the school year. This helps develop trust and opens the lines of communication.
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8 Ways Principals Can Show Leadership At The Beginning Of The School Year
Is My School Ready? Strategies For Principals That Lead contributed by Jen Schwanke, Principal for Dublin City Schools For a
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4 Strategies For Implementing Learning Stations In Your Classroom
One idea is each academic group comes to the teacher in groups of four to six students for direct instruction.
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The First 6 Weeks: Strategies For Getting To Know Your Students
The better we know our students, and the more they know and trust that we know them, the more invested they become in their learning.
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1st Period Or 6th: Teaching The Same Lesson Differently
Students would show up saying they heard “the test was brutal” or didn’t do the homework because they ‘heard’ I didn’t collect it.
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Stanford: We Created A Course About Better Classroom Conversation
Stanford launched a short online course designed specifically to help K-12 educators create better classroom conversations among students.
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5 Barriers To More Authentic Teaching And Learning
The pieces and parts of most schools and school days looks eerily similar to what many of us experienced decades ago but with advanced tech.
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How The WE CAN Project Touched My Students
How The WE CAN Project Touched My Students by Kristen LaScola My name is Kristen LaScola, and I am a
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6 Questions About John Hattie’s Meta-analyses: The Big Picture Of Data
What if a teaching strategy improves test scores but stifles creativity and ambition? Is that still a ‘win’?
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