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Calculator, document, and pencil.
Vicki Heupel September 5, 2019

Helping Students Fill Gaps with Mastery-Based Progressions

How one teacher used mastery-based learning to support remediation and close gaps in student learning to keep them on track to graduation....
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School building.
Romain Bertrand August 27, 2019

Four Tips for Making this School Year Your Best One Yet

This back-to-school season, discover four teaching tips to ensure you come to the classroom prepared to make this year your best yet....
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Text bubble conversation.
Kelly Weidenmiller July 3, 2019

Top Ways to Get Students Speaking in the Target Language (Part 2)

Build second language fluency with students through interpersonal conversations that promote speaking and listening skills. ...
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Student raising hand.
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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Notebook with written strategy.
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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Growing plant.
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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Lightbulb.
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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Stack of papers.
Natalee Hawks March 21, 2019

Tech Supports for Authentic Language Development

Support all students with academic language and explicitly support students who are learning English as another language....
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