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What Are the Signs of ADHD? 20+ Symptoms To Watch For
It affects millions of people worldwide.
Help! I Accidentally Said the F-Word in Front of My 8th Graders
It's not the end of the world.
10 December Holidays You Never Knew About But May Need to Celebrate
Check out these fun and quirky holidays.
Have You Tried the “Mystery Reward” With Your Students Yet?
The peeling off is just so satisfying!
Grades:
High School
Are Students Getting False Diagnoses To Get Accommodations for Extended Time?
And who does this hurt?
Teaching Close Reading: Building Your Bank of Text Dependent Questions (TDQs)
This is the third in a three-post series about TDQs. Read the other two posts here and here. We’ve covered the basics about close reading and text-dependent questions in our previous posts. Now it’s time to up our TDQ game: How can we come up with good TDQs to use again and again? Here are[…]
Grades:
10th Grade
How One Superintendent’s Lightbulb Moment Changed a District
Controlling lighting color and intensity can alter a learning environment.
Unhappy And Exhausted Teachers: How And Why Everyone Is Affected
This is a guest post written by Robyn Shulman of Ed News Daily. “Teaching is not a profession. It is a never-ending entry-level vocation, divorced from foundational understandings of training, accountability, and advancement. If we are to enact meaningful reform, we must rescue teaching from its status as vocation and volunteerism, and recast it as a[…]
9 Things You Can Do to Keep Students With Disabilities Safe From Bullying
Make your room a safe zone.
Close Reading: The Most Fun Lesson in Your Week
Close reading has a reputation for being drudgery. Sure, the intense, focused reading and rereading of text that defines close reading does sound like, well, hard work. A recent Dangerously Irrelevant post asks whether or not close reading will kill the joy of reading. Of course, I argue, no! Quite the opposite. Close reading should[…]
The Case for Frontloading: Why Kids Should Talk about Texts Before they Read Them
One of the great debates in close reading is whether or not we should frontload (or pre-teach) before students do a close reading. Often, close reading lessons start with a cold read, when students start reading text without any lesson beforehand. While this approach has merit, there are many reasons frontloading has a place in[…]
140+ IEP Accommodations Every Special Ed Teacher Should Bookmark
Your go-to list.
12 Essential Books for Teaching Kids With Autism
Book no. 4 on this list totally changed how I relate to my students with autism and how I teach them.
Why Your Next Teaching Gig Should Be in One of These Three States
Good salaries, better perks.
This Teacher Took off Her Superhero Cape to Stand up for Self-Care and Equity in Education
"We’re not doing the S on the chest thing anymore."
