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Preparing Students With Disabilities for Life Beyond School

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Family and school partnerships are important components of school success and student achievement. Engaging families of youth with disabilities is especially crucial. When students with disabilities enter middle and high school, schools and families need to begin to ensure that these young adults are prepared for life after graduation. As mandated by the Individuals with […]

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How to Engage Developing Writers in the Upper Elementary Grades

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How to Engage Developing Writers in the Upper Elementary Grades Every school year brings challenges and opportunities—and a chance for students to tell brand-new stories. In grade three, we start the year with a narrative-writing unit based on true stories from the students’ lives. As with many skills after a long break, there’s a predictable

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Using Math Journals in Kindergarten to Deepen Students’ Understanding

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  Using Math Journals in Kindergarten to Deepen Students Math journals will look different depending on whose classroom you are walking into. Some colleagues use math journals as a place for students to record problem-solving strategies before sharing them with peers. Others use math journals as a place for students to reflect on their learning

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How Playful Approaches Can Bring More Joy to Teaching

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    4 Time-Saving AI Tools for Teachers Time-Saving AI Tools for Teachers New edtech tools are making it easier for teachers to complete tasks like generating lessons and providing differentiated texts, freeing up time for them to work with students. For years, technology—everything from adaptive software to tablet computers—has promised to make teachers’ lives

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Rethinking Energy Transformation Labs

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Students constantly experience the effects of different types of energy transformations. They make use of power plants that convert chemical energy into electrical energy every time they plug in their cell phones, for example. My state is transitioning to the Next Generation Science Standards, which emphasize engineering design and hands-on, student-driven experiences, and I wanted

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Sparking Students’ Interest in Music With Bucket Drumming

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Five-gallon plastic buckets are great drums—flipped upside down, the bucket has a responsive head and a built-in resonator. Bucket drums can create eight tones that correspond to standard drum set timbres. This versatility and the low investment cost are making bucket drumming a fast-growing trend in music education—great for music teachers who want to add a

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4 Time-Saving AI Tools for Teachers

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4 Time-Saving AI Tools for Teachers For years, technology—everything from adaptive software to tablet computers—has promised to make teachers’ lives easier and their workloads lighter. Quite frequently, it’s done the opposite, piling still one more thing on teachers’ plates. But in the midst of the technological sea change brought about by artificial intelligence technologies like

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Connecting High School Science to Sociocultural Issues

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  People who engage in authentic science have hypotheses about the world. They seek information that supports, extends, or conflicts with their understandings to establish more complete knowledge. For educators looking to promote this type of thinking—this authentic science—in their classrooms, the following practices offer guidance: DEMONSTRATE AND WELCOME DIFFERENT FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT Students’ identities

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