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Are You “GPSing” Your Students in Math Class?

When we over-guide our math students, we don’t build understanding, we replace it, writes veteran teacher, author and math coach Pamela Seda. “We want students who, after leaving our class, can find their way – not students who are dependent on a voice telling them where to turn.”

Annotation / Articles

Teaching ELA Students to Annotate with Purpose

Whether they’re annotating for current engagement or as preparation for discussion and writing assignments, students benefit from knowing the purpose of their notes. Seventh grade teacher Laurie Miller Hornik shares steps to help students understand the power of annotation.

Articles / Mathematics

Engaging Math Students in a Thinking Classroom

After her close study of insights from three leading math educators, Kathleen Palmieri took “a deep dive into what I had been doing in my classroom and flipped the stage to create a Thinking Classroom for my students.” See examples of how she’s moved from theories to practice.

Articles / Reading

What We Can Do When Students “Skim Read”

Across classrooms, it is increasingly common to see students skim instead of read, search instead of think, and move quickly through text without following how ideas connect. This is not simply a motivation issue. It’s a cognitive one. Veteran educator Holly Durham has a cure.

Articles / Assessment

AI Help with Assessment Saves Me Valuable Time

What AI has done in its teacher assistant role this year has been transformative for teacher leader Katie Durkin. It’s helped her save time by generating ideas for formative assessments, giving her more time to provide students personal feedback – “a feat for any English teacher.”

Articles / Grading

Everything I Knew about Grading Was Wrong

Thanks to her “joyful” journey from traditional to competency-based grading, teacher and instructional coach Stephanie Farley has seen not only more growth of skill among her students but also increased competence, “which increases confidence, which increases resilience.”

Articles / Mathematics

3 Ways to Help Students Make Sense of Fractions

In our math classrooms, writes Mona Iehl, we’ve often trained students to look for what to do instead of making sense of what the problem is actually saying. When they see fractions, they search for a rule. But what if the goal is not to decode but to understand the situation?