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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 these tips from What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? Fiction, Grades 3-8, to engage your students in fiction read alouds. 

Much like the adage “a rising tide lifts all boats,” displaying students’ writing about reading gives all students the opportunity to learn from—and aspire to— the ways of thinking of peers. Check out this activity from What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? Nonfiction, Grades 3-8 to learn how to create an effective inspiration wall for your classroom.

 In this webinar, Michael McDowell, author of Developing Expert Learners, discusses practices that strategically support students as they move from novices to experts in core academics. 

This cutting-edge webinar with Julie Stern and Nathalie Lauriault, authors of Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, will help you to promote depth and breadth of understanding by using learning transfer as both a means and an end goal of learning.

This webinar from Gravity Goldberg, author of Teach Like Yourself, offers special insight on how to use your gifts to be the teacher you’re uniquely intended to be.

In this webinar, Catlin Tucker, author of Power Up Blended Learning, provides an overview of a blended learning coaching cycle designed to support teachers from goal setting to implementation to reflection.

This excerpt from The Five Practices in Practice helps you assess student thinking in ways that take them from where they are now and move them towards the lesson goals.

This excerpt from The Five Practices in Practice demonstrates strategies to anticipate student responses in problem solving, including planning to respond to students using assessing and advancing questions, and preparing to notice key aspects of students’ thinking in the midst of instruction.

This checklist from Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades K-2, provides instruction on how to compose mathematics tests that truly assess mastery. 

This Peer-Assisted Reflection (PAR) activity from Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 3-5, helps you develop strategies for process feedback, which is critical as learners explore the why and the how of specific mathematics content.

Use the following template and lesson plan from Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 6-8, to help your students analyze each other’s work for a more effective teaching practice.