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This excerpt from Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning in Mathematics outlines effective mathematics teaching principals and how to utilize strengths-based instruction.

In this group activity from More Energizing Brain Breaks, students practice communicating their undersanding of a difficult concept to peers in order to reinforce their recent learning.

In this partner activity from More Energizing Brain Breaks, students compete against a partner to do quick addition with small numbers.

In this solo activity from More Energizing Brain Breaks, students practice balance and control as they learn to move a "tray" around their bodies without letting it fall.

This free resource from Productive Math Struggle outlines how teachers can identify what is and isn't productive struggle. 

This resource from Produtive Math Struggle presents a productive struggle walkthrough tool for teacher behaviors, student behaviors, or both.

This resource from Productive Math Struggle gives teachers a self inventory survey to assess where they are with productive struggle.

The foreword from Productive Math Struggle by Matt Larson introduces the topic of productive struggle and why it should be used in the classroom.

"As educators move to competency-based designs in teaching and assessment, they often realize that their traditional or standards-based grading approaches are inadequate in communicating student learning. These limitations include..." Read the full article by Rose Colby, co-author of Deeper Competency-Based Learning on the CompetencyWorks blog.

In this excerpt from Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 2-5, the authors introduce and explain the EMPOWER framework that will empower your units and lessons for transformational teaching and learning.

This excerpt from The Five Practices in Practice, High School, provides 'talk moves' designed to engage students in class discussions.

In this excerpt from The Teacher Credibility and Collective Efficacy Playbook by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Dominque Smith, the authors define and explain how to use teacher credibility.