Fans of Sesame Street know: Puppets can be great teaching tools. Watch these elementary students learn key #SEL skills from some fabulous felt friends!
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As you wind down the school year, here are a few ideas to help you balance maintaining classroom routines with creating special moments for students to remember. #EndofSchool
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Students from this rural high school wanted to make a major environmental impact. Through #PBL, they established the county’s first recycling center.
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Want to nurture global learners? 🌏 To create a rich multicultural environment, highlight the world’s diversity of languages.
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“The stories we tell students become the stories they tell themselves." 📚
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Heading on a field trip? 🔍 🦒 🚀
Let your students think up the questions, teacher Chelsea Holmes suggests. "This engages them in making meaningful connections to something they deem impactful."
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When schools make space for free play in a natural environment, students are left to their own devices to build, create, and problem-solve. And the benefits continue once they are back in the classroom.
#MakingLearningMorePlayful with
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Early this week I posted a piece advocating for educators to tour thr communities where they teach. Likewise, they should “do life” within those communities as well. This piece helps to contextualize that idea and offer ways on how to do that.
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“One has to be empathetic to everybody. You have to explain, but you don’t have to excuse," author and professor Antony Polonsky once said. Here’s how you can help history students put those words into action.
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As you plan out your summer, check out these tips that will allow you to keep learning and developing at your own, relaxed pace. 🧘
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“Whether exploring the local landscape, biodiversity, sea levels, or environmental justice, using interactive maps can help get the conversation started,” writes middle school science teacher Kelly Kleinertz. 🌲 🌊
#ClimateEd #ClimateEducation
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Save time in your busy schedule. ⏳
Have AI help you generate class materials that meet your students’ diverse needs. #EdTech
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Research says everything from asthma to teacher-student relationships move the needle on school attendance, reports: bit.ly/45PFLLM
But did you know that offering attendance awards can actually do more harm than good?
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Check out my guest blog in : Teach immigration history the way adults learn for fun: Successful lessons, practices and extension ideas.
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Choral reading and singing of poetry and songs builds fluency, and provides an entry point for all level of readers. All grades love it…even those too cool grade 7 and 8s!
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The world is your neighborhood. 🗺️ Discover how exploring immigrant enclaves can bring history to life.
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![Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage. – Sir Ken Robinson](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyF4GFEX0AEXFRf?format=jpg&name=large)
What does it mean for administrators to lead from the middle? Try this! Replace "I do" and "You do" with "We do."
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You need time to plan, collaborate, and innovate with your colleagues. Here are ways schools can help enable you.
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You likely have many student achievements to celebrate this #EndofSchool season. Have you tried asking your students how they feel about their big accomplishments? 🎉
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Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈
Create a more welcoming school community—where every family feels accepted. 👇
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Stories increase:
⬆️ Student agency
⬆️ Community building
⬆️ Growth mindsets
Are you harnessing the power of storytelling in your classroom?
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School leaders, here are strategies that you can use to bring teachers together. Welcome clubs and pineapple charts included. ⛺ 🍍
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On your next field trip, don’t just ask your students for answers. Ask them for questions, too. 💭
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The secret to boosting literacy scores may rest in a surprising place. 👀
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A school district used video coaching to help retain 86% of its teachers. ⭐
Do you think any of these video coaching ideas would work for you? Let us know which ones. 👇
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Teaching climate change solely from a global perspective can make students feel disconnected from the issue. These 5 online mapping tools bring lessons closer to home. 🗺️
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In a middle school math classroom in Denmark, students draw on desks, chatter noisily, and build with clay and sticks—all while deeply learning geometry concepts.
#MakingLearningMorePlayful with
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It seems there’s a tech tool for everything, but which are most helpful? Technology coaches, these guidelines will help you identify teachers' objectives so everyone in the classroom feels supported. 👇
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📐 + 🎨 + 🏛️ + 💻 = 🤩
Have you ever tried integrating subjects to give your students a well-rounded picture of a complicated concept?
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No more lectures or resource packets. These 4 strategies make professional learning fun.
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"One core lesson I learned as a school administrator was to never give people a solution to a problem they don’t have."
This and more thoughtful advice on leadership from :
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