Support students struggling with trauma by creating rich communications environments in classrooms, with a focus on observations, feelings, needs, and requests.
The K-12 model has been overturned since spring, but these principals and superintendents say focusing on people first and finding joy are key to success.
Students can get turned off to reading because of traumatic experiences, like shaming one's reading choices or high-stakes testing. Teacher-librarians offer advice on how to cultivate better reading experiences for kids.
Students to show the work they did to solve math equations, writes math teacher Michelle Russell. In this blog post, Russell shares a grading rubric that she says helps ensure students understand math concepts and are able to communicate that knowledge.
While pandemic shifts to remote learning set the stage for significant change, a variety of factors will determine how far and fast it goes, a new report shows.
Are your students’ annotated texts hard to make sense of? Do they underline entire sections of a source? And write very few comments? This kind of annotating can be a waste of time and a huge impediment to meaningful learning for some of our learners. How can we turn this around?
Teachers across California are adopting various approaches to assess what students have learned during remote lessons. Brian Shay, a high-school math teacher, says assessing students has been more challenging this year, leading teachers to gauge understanding in different ways, including using online polls, exit tickets and Google forms.
Using the popular game in station rotation activities during distance learning is a way to bring an element of play and collaboration to writing assignments.
Data science can help apply math concepts to students' daily lives, making the subject applicable to STEM and other subjects, including public policy, social justice and health care, writes Pamela Burdman, executive director of the nonprofit Just Equations. Analyzing data teaches students how to think critically, Burdman writes in the commentary, and the results of…
Teachers can help parents overcome their own math anxiety to support their children, writes Jessica Banda, a third-grade dual-language teacher in Dallas. In this blog post, Banda writes that she has her students model growth mindset for their parents and that she works to curb misunderstanding of so-called "new math" taught under the Common Core…