Instructional time is a precious commodity, so it’s worth thinking about ways to make transitions as efficient as possible. In this blog post from Every Child Can Write author Melanie Meehan, she explains that, when we teach explicit strategies for transitioning smoothly and efficiently, we unlock more time for instruction.
What if we were regularly told only what we don’t do well? How can we expect our students, many who face the same messages, to continue to persevere? What if we transformed our classrooms to strengths-based environments that cultivate the assets that our students bring each and every day? These are the very issues Kobett and Karp will address in this webinar and how by shifting your attention from students’ weaknesses to their strengths you can maximize understanding and turnaround instruction.
This webinar will build on the book From Equity Insights to Action that addresses how educators, on the one hand, can recognize their students’ cultural and linguistic identities, backgrounds, multiliteracies, and complex experiences and, on the other hand, how they can engage in critical collaborative practices that champion equity for MLs.
Our students’ focus, participation, and interest in the activities of their learning are what we call “engagement”. But the benefits of engagement extend far beyond what we can see in the moment. Our long-term goal is for students to gain the skills of curiosity, focus, persistence, and self regulation. Download this excerpt for strategies you can test to build and maintain student engagement.
Use this checklist to see where your school or district can improve on coaching practices.
With some ingenuity, universal response systems can still work in remote and hybrid learning.
Explore with Jim Burke the ways educators can prepare students for Common Core Assessments without undermining daily instruction.
Uncover from William Bender how project-based learning can aid in the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.
Dive deeper into your own math identity, your students' math identity, and how you can make a positive impacts.
Learn about multiple community-building exercises you can use at the beginning of the year and throughout the year.
In this post by Edutopia, author Cathleen Beachboard shares how educators can help students who have experienced trauma.
This resource shares how students can practice bouncing in and out of formal and informal language through text translations.
