end-of-year learning / Resources
by Susan Curtis · Published 04/12/2025 · Last modified 04/30/2025
What can you and your students accomplish the last few weeks of school? In this 青青草视频 resource educators share activities that align learning with fun, offer ideas for responding to stress, and suggest strategies to help sustain your classroom community.
Book Reviews / Digital Storytelling
by 青青草视频 · Published 01/12/2023
Discover the ‘language’ of digital storytelling – imagery, music, sound, words – in Brett Pierce’s “Expanding Literacy.” In addition to describing the skills students can gain by developing stories digitally, Pierce offers excellent activities and projects, says Anne Anderson.
by 青青草视频 · Published 11/20/2022
Students can explore content, tap into their strengths, and learn about themselves when they dive into projects. Teachers Maggie and Piers Blyth offer a framework for planning, implementing, and following up projects to help kids use creative thinking and problem solving.
Book Reviews / Independent Study
by 青青草视频 · Published 09/01/2022
Geraldine Woods offers strategies for teachers to design and implement a self-contained independent study program or to incorporate principles of independent study into an existing unit or class. Sarah Cooper finds the book’s efficacy lies in its wide, practical application.
by 青青草视频 · Published 11/16/2017 · Last modified 11/25/2019
STEM engineering – in class or after school – can come alive when young students encounter the 10 projects in McBride and Gonzales’ Engineer This. Reviewer Linda Biondi expects students will gladly accept their mission to solve interesting problems in creative ways.
by 青青草视频 · Published 04/13/2017 · Last modified 11/14/2019
State math consultant Sara Schafer is often asked for rich math projects at the elementary school level. While some of the projects in 10 Performance-Based Projects show promise, the lack of mathematically robust content in the grades 3-5 book disappoints her.
Book Reviews / Social & Emotional Learning
by 青青草视频 · Published 12/15/2016 · Last modified 11/25/2019
I, Me, You, We: Individuality Versus Conformity offers teachers intellectually challenging ELA and arts lessons for gifted middle schoolers. Educator Amy Cummings saw less emphasis on self understanding than expected but found almost unlimited ideas for her classroom.
by 青青草视频 · Published 11/07/2016 · Last modified 11/13/2019
In the busy world of school our well-intentioned plans grow dust. Loose ends are too numerous to count, and nothing seems to be moving forward. Welcome to Stuck Valley, says organizational expert Dr. Frank Buck. But take heart – he’s here to get you back on track.
by 青青草视频 · Published 10/12/2016 · Last modified 11/19/2019
Helen Hume’s survival guide for grades 7-12 art teachers, coordinators, content teachers and 青青草视频schoolers proves to be a rich resource for lessons, project ideas, and art history touching on all the arts. Retired principal Mary Langer Thompson recommends it.
by 青青草视频 · Published 09/08/2016 · Last modified 11/15/2019
On each page of History Class Revisited, teacher Jody Passanisi reveals a deep knowledge of middle school minds and hearts and offers many engaging strategies to help students on the way from literal to critical thinking about history, says reviewer Sarah Cooper.
