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Instructional Strategies

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Kelly Weidenmiller June 27, 2019

Top Ways to Get Students Speaking in the Target Language (Part 1)

Strategies that promote speaking and listening skills that lead to fluency and language proficiency in foreign-language acquisition....
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Kelly Weidenmiller June 20, 2019

Creating a Student-Centered Routine for In-Class Presentations

How to integrate presentation and public speaking into instruction so all students have the opportunity to hone these skills...
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Alexandra Morgan Rick June 6, 2019

Strategies for Developing a Growth Mindset in Early Childhood Classrooms

How differentiation and personalized support for students has positively impacted my Early Childhood students....
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Text bubble conversation.
Marleigh Daly May 23, 2019

Talk it Out!: How Designing My Own Math Strategy Made a Difference for my 3rd Graders

Encourage students to work through multi-step word problems by communicating their process step by step with a partner using the "Talk it Out!" strategy...
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BetterLesson May 9, 2019

100 Literacy Teaching Strategies Developed with Newsela

Learn about our Newsela Master Teacher project featuring literacy-specific content across all grades and subject areas....
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Cheryl Belknap April 12, 2019

There’s Never Been a Better Time to Try a New Strategy, Part 2

In spite of all of the important spring business, you couldn't actually pick a better time to try a new instructional strategy....
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Cheryl Belknap March 14, 2019

There’s Never Been a Better Time to Try a New Strategy, Part 1

Explore a few student-centered instructional strategies that can be implemented in the classroom immediately....
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Romain Bertrand February 5, 2019

Students in Charge and in Control: Exploring and Designing Student Self-Paced Online Learning

Learn how an instructional coach and teacher used one class as an incubator for self-paced experimentation....
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Krystal Bankston October 30, 2018

The Power of Data: Instructional Strategies to Help You Create a Data-Driven Classroom

Learn how to utilize data to shift instructional practices and inform and drive every aspect of education....
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