Formative Assessment is a teacher tool that’s sometimes overlooked but incredibly powerful tool. Formative assessments are a valuable piece of...
Category - Strategic Instruction
Classroom Instruction, Distance Learning, Strategic Instruction
6 Remote Learning Strategies to Successfully Check for Your Students’ Understanding
Remote learning is the new norm for fall instruction, and with this new norm there’s going to be some growing pains. We’ve previously...
Classroom Instruction, Multilingual Instruction, Strategic Instruction
Help Struggling Writers Improve with Sentence Stems
Sometimes our students struggle with communicating, especially when writing is involved. But we can still support our students and help them improve...
Classroom Instruction, School Communities, Strategic Instruction
Reading Comprehension Strategies for Parents
Reading comprehension happens when your child extracts meaning from what they’ve read. It’s the primary goal of reading and a crucial...
Progress in the General Curriculum, Special Education, Strategic Instruction, Subject Areas
Flexible Grouping Strategies for the Science Classroom
Group work and the science classroom go together like peanut butter and jelly – or like hydrogen and oxygen. Whether it’s a lab, discussion...
Project Based Learning (also known as PBL) is a method of instruction that encourages students to learn through the use of projects and problem...
Writing frames are a great way to get your students to practice writing. Rather than using a generic prompt, frames engage students in a type of...
How would you teach a young child to ride a bike? Would you give them a regular bike and say, “Go for it!” or would you start them off on a bike with...
Social Media. Students love it, parents fear it, teachers compete with it, and administrators underestimate the power of it. Social media allows you...
What do you think of when you hear PLCs? The idea of Professional Learning Communities in schools has been in practice for decades. The...