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No More Telling as Teaching: Less Lecture, More Engaged Learning
The truth is, when we rely on lecture in an effort to cover content, we’re doing students a disservice. Although lecture can be engaging and even useful, lecture alone cannot give kids real opportunities to learn, retain, and transfer the...
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Portfolio Portraits
At professional conferences, educational experts recommend portfolios as alternatives to grading. Professional journals recognize portfolios as new systems for evaluating teacher and student performance. Several states are using portfolio assessments for...
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Positive Classroom Communities
In today’s classrooms, academic success begins with emotional and social connection. Positive Classroom Communities: Activities to Support Students’ Emotional and Social Growth is your practical guide to fostering an environment where every...
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Positive Classroom Communities: Activities to Support Student's Emotional and Social Growth
Create a Classroom Where Every Student Feels Seen, Safe, and Ready to Learn
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Purposeful Play for Early Childhood Phonological Awareness
Unlock the joy of language with this easy-to-use resource featuring over 80 engaging activities designed to help students detect, manipulate, and play with the sounds of language. This resource is your go-to guide for helping students master the...
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Purposeful Play for Early Childhood Phonological Awareness, 2nd Edition
Build phonological awareness in a fun and meaningful way! This book provides pre-K through first grade students with over 80 research-based early childhood activities that focus on detecting, manipulating, and engaging with the sounds of language.
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Social Studies at the Center : Integrating Kids, Content, and Literacy
This book presents a view of teaching and learning that connects what students learn in social studies with how they learn it and what they feel about it. With an emphasis on meaning and understanding over coverage of facts, the authors demonstrate how...
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Social-Emotional Learning Starts With Us: Empowering Teachers to Support Students
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) has the power to transform individuals, classrooms, and communities. This essential teacher resource, authored by Trisha DiFazio and Allison Roeser will guide you in successfully implementing SEL strategies while...
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Teach Like an MC: Hip Hop Pedagogy in the K–12 Classroom
In Teach Like An MC, Edmund Adjapong provides a research-based framework for implementing innovative teaching strategies anchored in the five elements of hip-hop culture: MCing, graffiti, knowledge of self, DJing, and breakdancing. He shares the...
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Teach Like an MC: Hip Hop Pedagogy in the K–12 Classroom.
In Teach Like an MC, Edmund Adjapong creates a framework informed by hip-hop culture that supports educators who have also become teachers to stop the cycle of poor teaching and to nurture positive educational experiences for all youth, with special...