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5 Qualities of Effective Instructional Intervention

9 Teacher Tips to De-Stress During the Holiday

7 Teacher Discourse Moves That Let The Kids Talk!

3 Quick and Easy Strategies for Active Learning

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5 Qualities of Effective Instructional Intervention

5 Qualities of Effective Instructional Intervention

Karie Gladis
When you think of intervention, does your mind jump to paper-and-pencil, skill-and-drill activities with rote memorization? Intervention can be so much more dynamic. I like to think of intervention as a way to "light a fire" in my students. In fact, with more rigorous standards and higher expectations, it is critical that intervention motivates students, not just for the enjoyment of learning, but also to engage students in higher-order thinking.

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Posted 01/11/19
9 Teacher Tips to De-Stress During the Holiday

9 Teacher Tips to De-Stress During the Holiday

Sara Johnson
The holidays are such a crazy time of year, especially in the classroom. Students are filled with excitement and anticipation, and it’s not easy to manage both your classroom and your own holiday to-do list. That’s why when the bell rings on the last day of school for the year, it's important to relax and unwind so that you return from break refreshed and ready to hit the ground running in January.

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Posted 12/06/18
7 Teacher Discourse Moves That Let The Kids Talk!

7 Teacher Discourse Moves That Let The Kids Talk!

Barbara Blanke
As classroom teachers we spend hours setting up our physical classroom environment and spend weeks building a community of learners, so now is the time to really reflect on the things that we say as teachers that will benefit our student’s mathematical conversations. If you choose one or two of these Teacher Discourse Moves to focus on for the next few weeks, you will see your students begin to engage in deeper mathematical conversations, arguments and begin to ask questions of each other.

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Posted 11/30/18
3 Quick and Easy Strategies for Active Learning

3 Quick and Easy Strategies for Active Learning

Lisa Callahan
The very best teachers we ever had as students involved us in the learning process. They drew us in and got us making our own connections to what they were teaching. They may have also created a sense of cognitive dissonance, or mental discomfort, that we wanted to resolve. Creating an environment of active learning that engages students promotes deeper understanding and long-term retention of the concepts we are teaching.

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Posted 11/16/18
Clothesline Math: The Master Number Sense Maker

Clothesline Math: The Master Number Sense Maker

Chris Shore M.A.Ed.
Clothesline Math is nicknamed the master number sense maker because it requires students to think harder about quantities while simultaneously making it easier to see their relationships to each other. To create this tool in your classroom, simply hang a long string—like a clothesline—somewhere that all students can see and interact easily with. The numbers for the clothesline are created by folding paper or index cards in half and writing the numbers on the front. They can be integers, fracti

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Posted 11/09/18
Giving Friendly Feedback in the Design Process

Giving Friendly Feedback in the Design Process

Sara Johnson
In honor of National STEM Day, we are sharing this mini lesson as a way to support students during the design process. Allowing students the opportunity to give and receive feedback from others enables them to assume greater ownership of their work and provides students with a valuable skill for lifelong learning. During any kind of activity or project, friendly feedback can be given. This is especially true for design projects, where students can help peers improve their ideas, designs, and mod

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Posted 11/02/18

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