Power Lesson: Note-Taking Stations 16Dec2018 by Peg Grafwallner To take quality notes, students need to be taught how. This fantastic station-rotation lesson gets the job done, and it can be used with all kinds of other content as well.
10 Ways Educators Can Take Action in Pursuit of Equity 2Dec2018 by Jennifer Gonzalez Awareness of educational inequity is important, but we also need to take action. Pedro Noguera shares ten ways educators can do just that.
Get Students Talking with Ongoing Conversations 18Nov2018 by Jennifer Gonzalez It’s not just a fantasy: This simple system gets every student in your room to have rich conversations with every other student. About content. Really.
To Learn, Students Need to DO Something 4Nov2018 by Jennifer Gonzalez Too often, we’re expecting students to learn material without asking them to do much of anything with it. Why is this a problem? Where did it come from? And how can we fix it?
What Are the Best Ways to Use Leveled Texts? 21Oct2018 by Jennifer Gonzalez When it comes to leveled texts, teachers and administrators make some missteps that can negatively impact students’ growth as readers. Here’s what to do instead.
OneNote Class Notebook: A Digital Binder That Will Change the Way You Teach 14Oct2018 by Jennifer Gonzalez When a single platform lets you share and deliver materials, access student work, and allow students to work together, you can do some pretty incredible things.
Voice of Witness: Bring the Power of Oral History to Your Classroom 23Sep2018 by Jennifer Gonzalez The need for these books goes beyond curriculum: Reading these stories will make our students better humans.
Note-taking: A Research Roundup 9Sep2018 by Jennifer Gonzalez A summary of 8 best practices in note-taking, straight from the research.
Deeper Class Discussions with the TQE Method 26Aug2018 by Jennifer Gonzalez Want your students to have rich, complex conversations about the texts they read? This method leads to the kinds of classroom discussions you thought only happened in college.
