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Fire Up Your Students with a Campaign Project

6Dec2020

by Jane Currell

Whether it’s real or fictional, putting students to work on a campaign for a cause is a powerful way to get them writing persuasively.

A Look Inside a Teacher Fellowship Program

12Aug2018

by Jennifer Gonzalez

Imagine a professional development scenario where you are given funding, choice, and time to collaborate with others in your specialty area who energize and inspire you.

To Boost Higher-Order Thinking, Try Curation

15Apr2017

by Jennifer Gonzalez

A digital curation project is a fast way to engage critical thinking in any content area. Here’s how it works.

How to Approach Your Teaching Like a Master Chef

16Oct2016

by Jennifer Gonzalez

If we want our lessons to have a long-lasting impact on our students, we need to design our instruction the way a chef prepares a good meal.

The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies

15Oct2015

by Jennifer Gonzalez

Here they are: 15 formats for structuring a class discussion to make it more engaging, more organized, more equitable, and more academically challenging.

4 Things You Don’t Know About the Jigsaw Method

15Apr2015

by Jennifer Gonzalez

This cooperative learning strategy has been around for decades, but how well do you really know it?

In Praise of Think-Pair-Share

13Jan2015

by Jennifer Gonzalez

Celebrating Think-Pair-Share, the Little Strategy That Could, and sharing some best practices for making it work for you.

How to Teach an Inductive Learning Lesson

17Sep2014

by Jennifer Gonzalez

Instead of saying, “Here is the knowledge; now go practice it,” inductive learning says, “Here are some objects, some data, some artifacts, some experiences…what knowledge can we gain from them?”

How to Use the Reciprocal Learning Strategy

28Feb2014

by Jennifer Gonzalez

This cooperative learning strategy takes the idea of “working in pairs” up a notch.