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Reconciling Common Core State Standards

The balanced literacy model helps all students achieve in the face of the Common Core demands.

Common Core State Standards advocates contend that the standards provide consistent, clear targets of what students should learn. The standards, they say, are robust and relevant to the real world, with the ultimate...

Author: Darlene Schoenly
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Topics: Common Core State Standards Language Arts and Literacy Teaching

Tags: Reading Writing Literacy

Build a Productive Parent-Teacher Team

The last United States Census reported that young adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in the care of someone other than their parents. Couple this with adolescents' growing need for independence, and...

Author: Joe Bruzzese
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Topics: Family and Community Leadership

Tags: Parent Involvement

PBL: Learning How to Learn

Project-based learning is about more than "doing projects."

We teach children to ask questions at a very early age, then we send them into the secondary school classroom where we ask them to quietly absorb information without questioning it. Project-based learning (PBL)...

Author: Rachel Erickson
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Topics: Curriculum Teaching

Tags: Project Based Learning

Emancipating the English Language Learner

As you cooraptoriliate these words, make sure you flimp the scoglottora in proper schimliturn. You will only understand this column if hickitow glisps in baggaduanation. Use your joomering and begin. Huh? Look,...

Author: Rick Wormeli
Number of views (39986)/Comments (0)/

Topics: ELL/ESL/ESOL Teaching

Tags: Rick Wormeli

Show, Don't Tell: Activities for Image-Driven Writing

Today's students must be able to learn and express themselves in myriad ways, yet reading, writing, and speaking remain the primary vehicles. Thus, language arts still...

Author: Carol Baldwin
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Topics: Language Arts and Literacy Teaching

Tags: Writing

Using Classroom Management to Close the Achievement Gap

While observing in several classrooms recently, I noticed teachers who had outstanding lesson plans, but many of their students had other plans—texting, engaging in sidebars, talking out, and engaging in other...

Author: Charles Beaman
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Topics: Classroom Management Teaching

Tags: Student Engagement Achievement Gap

Developing Relationships with Difficult Students

Four simple strategies can help forge a positive teacher-student relationship.

As Mary watched Ashleigh get off the bus, she knew it was going to be “that kind” of day. Ashleigh was mad and yelling in the faces of the other children. Mary watched her push her way through the hallway,...

Author: Lori Rakes & Audra Parker
Number of views (39565)/Comments (2)/

Topics: Classroom Management Teaching

Tags: Student Engagement Student Motivation Humor In the Classroom

Service-Learning: The Time Is Now

Have you noticed the groundswell of volunteerism during the past few years? In 2006 alone, 60 million Americans dedicated 8.1 billion hours of service to community organizations. More recently, President Obama has...

Author: Cathryn Berger Kaye
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Topics: Curriculum Family and Community Teaching

Tags: Service Learning

10 Steps to a Safer School

Academic rigor, achievement on standardized tests, character education, and student behavior will always be important topics, but above all, parents want their children to come home safely and in the same physical...

Author: James Davis
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Topics: Bullying/School Safety Leadership

Tags: School Violence Safety

"I Feel I'm Important": Successful Collaborative Teaching and Learning in a New Zealand Intermediate School

The investigation examined a collaborative teaching and learning house structure at a New Zealand intermediate (or middle) school. Using observations, questionnaires, and interviews, we explored the perceptions of...

Author: Rachel Martin, Judy Williams
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Topics: Organizational Structures Research

Tags: Cooperative Learning House Structure

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