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You can post this list of essential academic words from Academic for College and Career Readiness, Grades 6-12, along with their definitions, in your classroom or give a copy to every student.

These graphic organizers from The Nonfiction NOW Lesson Bank are tools that students can use throughout a reading and writing unit to help clarify their thinking.

This complimentary excerpt from Leading for Change Through Whole-School Social-Emotional Learning by Jennifer Rogers shines a light on some of the currently most relevant studies about social-emotional learning that you can discuss with stakeholders.

In this complimentary activity from Keep CALM and Teach, teachers can engage in the first step toward having a CALM classroom: visualizing their ideal classroom.

Just giving students complex text doesn’t mean they will read and understand it. Read this excerpt from Rigorous Reading to learn more about how you can ramp up complex texts.

Use this complimentary excerpt from Visible Learning for Science, Grades K-12, to learn powerful feedback strategies that you can use to impact your students’ science learning.

Use these feedback starters and responses from Teaching the Whole Teen by Rachel Poliner and Jeffrey Benson to inform your strategies for delivering feedback in your classroom that students can use.

Use this self-reflection tool from Teaching the Whole Teen by Rachel Poliner and Jeffrey Benson with your students and help them discover what gets in the way of being their best selves and how they can further develop themselves.

Get a sneak peek into the book with this first chapter of Developing Assessment-Capable Visible Learners, Grades K-12, where the authors define what an assessment-capable learner is and explore how teachers can create them. 

This excerpt from Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12, provides example questions that teachers can use to check for understanding—a crucial aspect of visible learning. 

In this chapter from The Blended Learning Blueprint for Elementary Teachers, consider how you can move from differentiation to personalized learning, design personalized pathways, and make those pathways work.

In this letter from This Is Balanced Literacy, Grades K-6, by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nancy Akhavan, the authors briefly discuss their view of what balanced literacy is and the impact it can have on teaching and learning.