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Teaching and Supporting English Learners: A Guide to Welcoming and Engaging Newcomers
Learn how to best support English learners and address the needs of newcomers! This professional resource provides step-by-step instructional strategies for teachers of ELs. Teaching and Supporting English Learners: A Guide to Welcoming and Engaging...
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Teaching Essentials: Expecting the Most and Getting the Best from Every Learner, K-8
What makes a teacher outstanding? More than anything, it’s a way of being with kids in the classroom that lets them know they’re smart and capable of high achievement. When you combine this mind-set with effective instruction, teaching and...
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The Artful Approach to Exploring Identity and Fostering Belonging
Every child has the right to feel seen, valued, and free to be their unique selves at school. And as educators, we strive to create the conditions that can make it possible for our students to feel this sense of belonging every day. But what are the...
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The Artful Approach to Exploring Identity and Fostering Belonging.
The arts move us, sustain us, and awaken us. In their book, Rebecca Bellingham and Veronica Scott outline ways to engage in conversations about identity and belonging using the lens of the arts. The authors encourage educators and educational...
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The Artful Read-Aloud: 10 Principles to Inspire, Engage, and Transform Learning
It’s no secret that reading aloud to children every single day is one of the most important things any teacher, parent, or grown up can do to help children become better readers, thinkers, and frankly, better human beings. There are many resources...
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The Joyful Teacher: Strategies for Becoming the Teacher Every Student Deserves
“My wish,” writes Berit Gordon, “is for there to be more joy and less struggle in a profession where people put in such tremendous effort and do such essential work.” No matter what supports you might have in your school or...
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The Power of Teaching Vulnerably: How Risk-Taking Transforms Student Engagement
Perhaps more now than at any other time in modern history, our students need a feeling of connectedness at school. They need to feel seen, heard, understood, and known in our classrooms. And it begins with us. As middle and high school teachers, we have...
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Tough Talk, Tough Texts
Strategic reading, critical examination, and civil discourse aren’t just for college preparedness—they are life skills. In Tough Talk, Tough Texts Cindy O’Donnell-Allen shares small-group instruction whose goal is to give kids the...
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Tuned-in Teaching: Centering Youth Culture for an Active and Just Classroom
Does your classroom ever feel stuck, or out-of-tune? Meaningful teaching is something educators strive for each day. Educators also know that there is no such thing as a perfect classroom. Despite our best intentions, our classrooms sometimes feel like...