Why Social Interaction Is Essential To Learning Math
We seek fluency in the language of math but don’t encourage students to use it in a social way, producing many who are anxious about math.
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3 Shifts To Create A Climate Of Possibility In Your Classroom
How To Create A Climate Of Possibility In Your Classroom by TeachThought Staff In May of last year, Ken Robinson–he of “Is School Killing Creativity?”/TED Talk legend status–gave a brief talk on the idea of contrast, specifically the difference between who we are and how we teach. His general message was that we, as human…
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Actually Achieving Close Reading With Digital Tools
As we think about how reading habits change & how to support students in print & digital spaces, I hope you’ll model reading practices.
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The Simple Things I Do To Promote Brain-Based Learning In My Classroom
You don’t have to be a neuroscientist to promote brain-based learning in your classroom. In fact, it’s really quite simple.
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20 SEL Writing Prompts For Middle School Grades 6-8
Write about something in your life that feels uncertain right now. You don’t have to solve it—just describe what the uncertainty feels like.
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Bad News: A Game About The ‘Success’ Of Fake News
This (simple) game helps students understand how fake news works, why it becomes popular, and its central mechanics and trends.
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8 Ways Parents Can Support Critical Thinking At Home
Practicing critical thinking at home–in their ‘native environment’–is a useful strategy to build their cognitive muscles.
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Research-Based Factors Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment
In a highly effective learning environment, there are opportunities for students to revisit old thinking while grappling with new ideas.
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New Learning: Characteristics Of An Innovative Classroom
From content to thought, linear learning to spiral learning, and grading to micrograding, here are possible characteristics of an innovative classroom.
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Why What Students Don’t Know Is More Important Than What They Do
For me, my biggest takeaway from college was learning what I didn’t know.
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AI as a Teacher’s Partner in Modern Classrooms
Explore how teachers use AI as a true instructional partner—improving differentiation, feedback, assessment, workload reduction and student engagement through real, proven classroom scenarios.
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NEW: Analogies Workbook For Critical Thinking | Practice Grades 6–10
A printable PDF with 40+ practice sets in relationship types: Synonym, Antonym, Part-to-Whole, Cause–Effect, and Function.
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The Most Important Things Students Learn At School
Everything around us is some kind of pattern and we look for them. That’s how minds work. Learning requires us to disrupt those patterns.
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The Two Minds Of An Educator
The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.
