You taught the rule. Students practiced it. Then two weeks later, somebody looks at a problem involving negative numbers as if the minus sign just arrived from another planet. That …
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Season 2 of The Stuff I Learned About Learning is here! And we aren’t starting slowly. Four new episodes are already waiting for you, with conversations about accessibility, technology leadership, …
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Supervising a web developer in a school district can be fun. Your idea starts out as a simple website, but then, pretty soon, the web developer is making suggestions about …
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How Educators Can Use AI to Tell Stories, Spark Conversations, and Build Community Artificial intelligence has become one of the biggest topics in education. Many educators are exploring how AI …
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Artificial IntelligenceDigital CitizenshipEducational TrendsLeadership
Artificial Intelligence in Schools: 5 Questions to Ask Before Approving an AI Tool
AI tools are reaching classrooms faster than policies can keep up. These five practical questions help school leaders evaluate data, accountability, human judgment, and results before saying yes.
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Classroom ActivitiesScience
Teacher Printables: Make STAAR Review More Useful with Science Supplemental Aids for Elementary and Middle School
Welcome to a new series focused on teacher printables for classroom teachers. Ever wish you could just grab-n-go content that you could print and use tomorrow (or today)? Let’s take …
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Before Winter Break, I had written 72 discipline referrals. My assistant principal and I stood shoulder to shoulder against a wave of unruly, undisciplined sixth graders. The Bilingual/ESL sixth grade …
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Some ideas sit in the back of your brain for years. Then one summer workshop finally nudges them into action. This summer, my colleague Dr. Bruce Ellis and I traveled …
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Back to SchoolEducational ResearchEnglish Language Arts Reading (ELAR)Equity, Diversity, InclusionESL/ELLForeign LanguageOnline Tools and AppsSpanish
When the Classroom Lives in the In-Between: Nepantla, Rasquachismo, and Teaching Tools
Somewhere, there’s a teacher or professor trying to do amazing work but lack of access is getting in the way. Maybe, the tool they do have access to lacks critical …
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Every now and then, a classroom activity theme practically wraps itself in a tortilla and says, “Create me.” National Taco Day lands on the first Tuesday in October, which is …
