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5 ways to connect with students through pop music

4/20/2021

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A music teacher reflects on the benefits to integrating popular music into her curriculum.

Hands-on science: How to make it work remotely

3/30/2021

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Remote learning may not be the ideal environment for student science experiments, but here’s how one science specialist is keeping her students engaged.

5 tasks my middle school successfully moved to virtual

3/23/2021

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Here's how moving several middle-school programs from in-person to a virtual format succeeded.

How an engagement evangelist keeps students coming to school

3/9/2021

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A school counselor in one of America’s most violent cities explains how she keeps students coming back to school.

How the pandemic has made me a better teacher

3/2/2021

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One of the best lessons we can model for our students is how to persevere through struggle productively and come out the other side with new skills and strategies.

Black History Month 2021: How teachers are adapting, stepping up

2/23/2021

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Educators are facing a different landscape for Black History Month this year. Here’s how they are shifting practice out of necessity, relevancy.

Selecting and implementing a social and emotional learning curriculum

2/16/2021

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Here is how one district prioritized social and emotional learning by raising the funding for and implementing an SEL curriculum that met students’ and teachers’ needs.

Coping with anxiety: How to help students (and yourself)

2/9/2021

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Here are six steps that schools, administrators, and teachers can take to minimize the negative impacts of anxiety and depression.

5 tips for online speech therapy

2/2/2021

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Speech teletherapy comes with its own set of challenges but can be engaging with the right resources and expectations.

5 benefits of using an online coding program

1/26/2021

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Finding itself “suddenly remote,” this public charter school quickly adopted an online platform for keeping kids connected to STEM, and even participated in an international cyber robotics and coding competition.