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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- May 5, 2022
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5 Musings for Next Year
As the school year winds down, it’s good to think about all the adjustments we’ve made to keep kids engaged and interested in learning ..
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- Feb 24, 2022
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Happy Teacher, Happy Student
Teachers have a lot on their plate right now. So let’s think about how to scrape some off for the dog ...
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- Jan 11, 2022
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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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- Dec 7, 2021
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The Best Secondary English Language Arts (ELA) Blogs, Podcasts and Websites for High School Teachers
If you’ve ever listened to a fellow teacher deliver a presentation about their favorite project or unit, you know how creativity and passion
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- Nov 11, 2021
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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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- Mar 4, 2021
- 3 min
The Case for Content-Specific Professional Development
After some years teaching, I realized that my love of learning about literature turned into a love of learning about how to teach literature
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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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- Aug 3, 2020
- 5 min
Essential Virtual Tools for ELA Teachers
My school will start remote learning this Monday, and everyone is scrambling to find the best and easiest tools to make life easier.
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- Jul 10, 2020
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3 Tips for a Successful ELA Teaching Interview and Job Hunt
July is here and its arrival makes me think of all those future teachers out there, stalking job websites and submitting online applications
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- Jun 11, 2020
- 2 min
The Value of an End of Year Course Evaluation
I strongly believe that authentic narratives from my students are the most useful information to improve myself, more useful than profession
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- Jun 2, 2020
- 4 min
4 Easy Ways to End Injustice in Education Now
Children don’t compete on a level playing field in our country.
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- May 12, 2020
- 4 min
4 Ways to Simplify Teaching English Language Arts
This is the hardest thing for any teacher. Take a very difficult and complicated topic and make it easy to understand.
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- Mar 26, 2020
- 2 min
Grades Should Be Invisible
I became a teacher to talk about literature, not to talk about grades and due dates and rubrics and expectations.
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- Dec 28, 2019
- 4 min
A Novel Way to Teach the Novel
Every English teacher works tirelessly to instill a love of reading in their students. We convince them that literature matters.
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- Dec 4, 2019
- 2 min
The Power of Job-Embedded Professional Development
Creativity sometimes comes from conversations with people outside our field of study, but sometimes from people trying to tackle the same ex
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- Oct 15, 2019
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A New Approach to Professional Development
You just have to read the title and first few sentences from a recent article in Education Week to understand the potential of Teacher’s Wor
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- Oct 8, 2019
- 2 min
Creativity and Collaboration
Unconscious mental processes, developed from years of prior experience, determine many decisions we make automatically, without deliberation
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