Teacher Leaders Network
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Reading & Literacy
Teacher Leaders Network
Reflecting on Your Teacher Leadership
As the school year closes, Anthony Colucci asks himself some tough questions about his performance as a teacher leader.
Reading & Literacy
Teacher Leaders Network
The Home Library Effect: Transforming At-Risk Readers
Teacher Justin Minkel says a project he launched to get more books into the homes of his students has had a profound effect on their academic progress and connection to reading.
Teaching Profession
Teacher Leaders Network
No More Whack-A-Mole: My Conversion to Collaborative Learning
A language arts teacher shares how he overcame his anxiety about having students work in groups.
Teaching Profession
Teacher Leaders Network
What Teacher Leaders Learned This School Year
Reflecting on their fast-changing profession, members of the Teacher Leaders Network share their thoughts on the most important lessons they learned about teaching this year.
Teaching
Opinion
Teaching Secrets: Ending the Year on a High Note
Ideas on how to send students off into the summer months feeling good about the lessons they learned throughout the school year.
Teaching Profession
Teacher Leaders Network
Grade the Work, Not the Behavior
Cindi Rigsbee thinks her students' grades should reflect their knowledge rather than behavior, so she gives cheaters and those who are late with assignments a second chance.
Teaching Profession
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Assessment & Reflection With ELLs鈥擜nd All Students
In an excerpt from their upcoming book, Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski highlight student reflection as an important tool in assessing the progress of English-language learners.
Special Education
Opinion
Strategies for Meeting All Students' Needs
Teacher Laurie Wasserman says collaboration, diligence, and compassion can help schools better support students with learning difficulties.
Teaching Profession
Teacher Leaders Network
Tips for Planning Interdisciplinary Units in Middle School
Cross-curricular teaching requires forethought and communication but pays off in student engagement and knowledge retention, says one middle school teacher.
Teaching Profession
Teacher Leaders Network
Going Global With a Schoolwide Festival
Teachers and student leaders planned a weeklong festival devoted to learning about鈥攁nd taking actions to help solve鈥攃omplex global and local water issues.
Teaching Profession
Teacher Leaders Network
Teaching Foreign Language Through Storytelling
A veteran teacher takes an instructional leap, eschewing traditional memorization-heavy methods of teaching a second language, and offers some takeaways from the experience.
Teaching Profession
Teacher Leaders Network
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Deepening Learning
A veteran teacher offers a neuroscientific perspective on helping students forge long-term memories that boost their future learning.
Teaching Profession
Teacher Leaders Network
The Flipped Classroom: Students Assessing Teachers
By using student feedback to plan instruction, teachers can be more responsive to a class' learning needs, says teacher Brianna Crowley.
Teaching Profession
Teacher Leaders Network
Cultivating Student Leadership
A community organizer-turned-teacher describes the ways he helps students develop their natural leadership abilities.