The Best Engagement Strategy: Scaffolding and Guided Notes
It feels like it’s getting harder and harder to keep the attention of our students. Every teacher knows that if a student doesn’t use ...
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- Nov 22, 2022
- 2 min
Learning and Exercise: A Conversation with ActivEd Founder Dr. Julian Reed
Every teacher is familiar with the kind of student who struggles to pay attention for a long period of time...
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- Nov 17, 2022
- 2 min
How to Avoid Teacher Burnout: 3 Solutions
For me, stress always hits at the end of a marking period. I suddenly realize how much I need to grade . . .
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- Jul 8, 2022
- 5 min
Classroom Routines: 5 Simple Hacks
There’s no feeling quite like when you discover a small classroom routine that makes your life easier.
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- Jan 11, 2022
- 3 min
New Year, New Habits: Reflecting on Reflecting
It’s a new year and this will be my 100th blog and podcast, so I’ve been thinking about reflection, the mental process of looking back and t
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- Nov 11, 2021
- 3 min
What If We Treat Students Like Athletes?
What if we treated our students like we treat athletes? What if we taught like a coach at halftime? What if we could recreate the same...
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- Oct 27, 2021
- 5 min
How Students Learn: 7 Engagement Techniques
When we ask our students to pay attention, we’re competing with five to ten second video clips on television and social media apps...
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- Oct 18, 2021
- 3 min
5 Easy Ways to Motivate Students
Every fall my students seem a little sluggish from the summer. Over the course of a few weeks in September, I see their brains turn on,...
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- Sep 2, 2021
- 4 min
5 Ways to Establish Great Relationships in Your Classroom
If you look back on being a student, I’m sure you remember not the specifics of what you learned, but your teachers, the people tasked with
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- Aug 5, 2021
- 3 min
Symbolism Ice Breaker
We are all familiar with the first few days in our classroom. It’s a little tense because our students don’t know us ...
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- Jul 2, 2021
- 3 min
The Keys to Organizing an ELA Classroom
A well-organized classroom reduces stress and helps everyone focus on what’s most important, the literature.
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- Jun 26, 2021
- 3 min
The Path to Easy, Exciting, Excellent Teaching
My school year finished this week, and as I watched my seniors graduate, I felt like we all deserved something special for making it...
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- May 25, 2021
- 3 min
New Year, New Ideas
It’s hard to imagine that anything positive will come out of this year, but I’ve been thinking about what, if any, lessons I’ve learned ...
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- Apr 14, 2021
- 4 min
7 Methods to Finish the Year Strong
If you have been teaching remote or hybrid you know that students don’t turn in as much work as they usually do. You’re not alone ...
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- Mar 12, 2021
- 7 min
Meaning-Making in the Secondary ELA Classroom
It’s easy to say to our students that literature should be meaningful. It’s easy to ask students … what does that line mean?
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- Feb 14, 2021
- 3 min
Why Do You Want to Be a Teacher?
Introduction to Teaching the Magic of Literature: Using Imagination to Shape the Future It was one of the simplest, yet most complicated...
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- Jan 19, 2021
- 4 min
What Makes a Superteacher?
This has been a challenging year for any teacher. Even during a regular year, teachers work hard to meet the many demands and...
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- Jan 11, 2021
- 3 min
Teaching the Novel in a Remote or Hybrid Classroom
I’m trying to get as creative as possible when it comes to being flexible with students. After finishing a few units ...
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- Dec 23, 2020
- 6 min
10 Creative Projects for Remote Learning
My colleagues and I recently had a conversation about the rest of the year and what we could do to keep our students engaged....
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- Dec 11, 2020
- 3 min
50 Songs to Start Class
This year, the start of class is that awkward time when we’re saying hello and waiting for everyone to virtually trickle in. When...
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- Oct 19, 2020
- 4 min
5 Tech Tools for Small Groups and Presentations
Under normal circumstances, we try to steer kids away from socializing so they can stay on task and so that we can give our assessments and
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- Oct 8, 2020
- 3 min
Homework: Putting Home and Work Together
We need to think about what we’re asking students when we ask them to do homework.
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- Oct 2, 2020
- 3 min
5 Goals for Remote or Hybrid Teaching
Right now, I’m keeping the focus on learning and not on assessment.
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- Sep 5, 2020
- 2 min