Persisting through challenges is a key skill for students, and teaching them about others who have succeeded after difficulties is an effective way to support them.

Across grades 3–12, students often struggle to revise their writing. Having them focus on one issue at a time helps them develop this invaluable skill.

Explicit instruction is necessary, but the most effective explanations act as a springboard to launch students quickly into guided, and then independent, practice.

Welcome to our final Jam Session of the school year! This week, join our panelists for a conversation about practical ways to make the most of the final weeks—helping students reflect on their learnin...

Looking for creative ways to celebrate the last weeks of school? Here’s a toolkit of delightful, memorable activities from veteran K-12 teachers.

Looking for creative ways to celebrate the last weeks of school? Here’s a toolkit of delightful, memorable activities from veteran K-12 teachers.

Teachers can help students build their capacity to stay on task by ensuring that they have a clear path to start working, reasons to continue, and support when they lose focus.

Welcome to our final Jam Session of the school year! This week, join our panelists for a conversation about practical ways to make the most of the final weeks—helping students reflect on their learnin...

These extension activities for all grades will help teachers keep fast finishers engaged in meaningful work.

Teachers can help students build their capacity to stay on task by ensuring that they have a clear path to start working, reasons to continue, and support when they lose focus.

These extension activities for all grades will help teachers keep fast finishers engaged in meaningful work.

You’ve checked for understanding—now you can use this framework to understand what students’ confusion is telling you, and how you can adjust course.

These extension activities for all grades will help teachers keep fast finishers engaged in meaningful work.

You’ve checked for understanding—now you can use this framework to understand what students’ confusion is telling you, and how you can adjust course.

You’ve checked for understanding—now you can use this framework to understand what students’ confusion is telling you, and how you can adjust course.

Encouraging students to “look out for each other on purpose” has a powerful impact. These classroom and schoolwide strategies can help you get started.

Podcast Episode · School of Practice · 11/25/2025 · 20m

Teachers can use these techniques to gauge students’ understanding mid-lesson and then decide whether to reteach or press ahead.

An education professor and former teacher tackles issues like classroom management, projecting authority, dealing with parents, cell phone distractions, and more.

The right approach to seating works behind the scenes to keep students focused on learning while minimizing disruptions, research suggests.

Brian and I truly count ourselves blessed as we work in the best of both worlds: classroom teachers and consultants for teachers. Once the school year ends, we work with teachers from across the count...

Teachers can explore with students what not to do—like confusing operations in math or using boring word choices in writing—to set students on the right path and boost learning.

Teachers can explore with students what not to do—like confusing operations in math or using boring word choices in writing—to set students on the right path and boost learning.

Teachers can help students end the year on a high note with activities that remind them how much they’ve learned in class.

Teachers can help students end the year on a high note with activities that remind them how much they’ve learned in class.

Teachers can help students end the year on a high note with activities that remind them how much they’ve learned in class.

These extension activities for all grades will help teachers keep fast finishers engaged in meaningful work.'

How will AI change learning and instruction? How can we best prepare students for the AI World? Click to read Education Disrupted: Teaching and Learning in An AI World, by Stefan Bauschard, a Substack...