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How do you prepare the next generation of teachers? Bring a preschool to your high school. 🙌🖍️

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To keep high school #ELL students engaged, try these simple word games that foster fun and community. 🤩

Skill-Developing Games for ELLs

These simple activities for high school English language learners can keep them engaged and having fun as they learn.

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This middle school math teacher was struggling with disengagement during a lesson—until he discovered an effective way to grab students’ attention. 🔥 Here's his strategy:

Unlocking Engagement in Middle and High School Math

A small shift in lesson presentation can encourage older students to actively participate in class.

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Feeling overwhelmed makes learning tough. These strategies can help students manage their sensory overload and anxiety at school. 🤝

7 Strategies to Help Overwhelmed Students

Some students develop anxiety about assignments, but there are ways teachers can help them cope with these feelings.

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Here’s the key to getting middle schoolers speaking up and sharing their ideas: a Scientists Circle! 🔬

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School communities can embrace new tech *and* support academic integrity. Here’s how to create AI policies that achieve both. 🤖👇

4 Simple Steps for Crafting a District AI Policy

School districts can create effective artificial intelligence policies that support academic honesty while embracing emerging technology.

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💥 A question to spark engaging, student-driven projects: “What’s a problem you care about that adults haven’t solved yet?” Discover an interdisciplinary approach to #PBL from @suzieboss :

Connecting Across Disciplines in PBL

Here are three ways to set up project-based learning that involves more than one subject area, which is highly engaging for students.

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Substantive feedback is key to student success—but sharing it is time consuming! ⏰ Here’s how scaffolding the process with AI tools can add expediency and objectivity:

How AI Can Enhance the Grading Process

Artificial intelligence tools, combined with human expertise, can help teachers save time when they’re reviewing student work.

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Preparing learners for our information-rich world means designing reading experiences that establish learners as meaning-makers rather than meaning-receivers.

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It’s the right time of year for some classroom reflection! 🪞 @Rdene915 shares activities to help students critically engage with their own learning and identify areas for improvement:

5 Activities That Promote Reflection in the Classroom

The metacognitive work of reflecting on learning boosts engagement and encourages the development of critical thinking skills.

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Teachers can use the GLEAM framework to plan projects that reflect grade-level standards and is also engaging, meaningful and affirming. @KacLLL @edutopia Meaningful Learning to End the Year Strong

Meaningful Learning to End the Year Strong

These end-of-year activities for elementary and middle school can help ensure that all students continue to learn while having fun.

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Why support students’ meaning-making skills when they read? You’ll boost classroom conversation and place learning in students’ hands. 🚀 🖐️ @kdbiens explains how:

Supporting Students’ Meaning-Making in Reading Instruction

Teachers can guide students to connect their interests to class texts and to share their ideas in collaborative discussions.

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That awkward silence where every second feels like an hour actually has its benefits! ⏳ 🙌

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3 things that supportive school leaders prioritize: 👀 Visibility. 📋 Selectivity with strategies. 🕙 Respect for teachers’ time. Find more tips for creating a positive school environment:

4 Practical Ways Administrators Can Support Teachers

A teacher who has been in roles ranging from long-term sub to assistant principal has noticed four common strategies used by supportive school leaders.

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From maren.theteacher on IG: “Teacher tip (that came from a student)! Have your students create assignments for their peers if they finish their work early. My class LOVED doing this yesterday and the student who created it felt so empowered 💪🏼”

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How can you help students grow into “informed stakeholders in their own learning”? 🌱 @JorgeDoesPBL shares strategies for supporting students in cultivating successful academic habits:

Helping Middle and High School Students Cultivate Habits That Support Learning

Through explicit instruction, teachers can help students develop the skills necessary to do well in school.

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When students experience loss, a grief and bereavement policy can help them feel supported and clear about the accommodations they can receive. 🧡 Here’s how to develop one in your school community:

A Practical Guide to Grief-Sensitive School Policies

When a school community experiences loss, having grief policies already in place can lessen the trauma.

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According to @TheJoseVilson , teaching students the skills and mindsets needed to persevere through foundational math opens doors to greater academic success—and a better understanding of the world. 🚪🌎

José Vilson: Good Math Education is a ‘Civil Right’

The middle school math teacher, author, and lecturer, on holding high expectations for every child, and prioritizing mathematics in the same way we do literacy.

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"We all deserve to learn the best math possible. We should be saying, 'Wait, you’re innumerate? We need to fix that immediately!' Everything we do for reading, we should do for math." @borywrites talked to the excellent @TheJoseVilson for @Edutopia

José Vilson: Good Math Education is a ‘Civil Right’

The middle school math teacher, author, and lecturer, on holding high expectations for every child, and prioritizing mathematics in the same way we do literacy.

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