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- ELL Best Practices Collection
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Our ELL Best Practices collection includes a variety of resources that will help you ensure your school environment is welcoming to English language learners (ELLs) and their families. ELL Best Practices Guide This ELL Best Practices guide ... - Facilitating Constructive Conversations about 9/11
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Conversation Guidelines for Schools and Academic Settings , developed by the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, provides useful steps for having respectful conversations about 9/11 and ... - Cross-Racial Understanding and Reduction of Racial Prejudice
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Willis Hawley Review of research on the effects of racial and ethnic diversity in schools on racial understanding and student ... - Critical Thinking Skills and Academic Achievement
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Willis Hawley Hawley's review of research on the effects of racial and ethnic school diversity on critical thinking skills and ... - Five Standards of Effective Pedagogy
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Teacher and students producing together facilitates learning through joint productive activity among teacher and students. Joint Productive Activity Teacher and Students ... - Teaching Teachers: Professional Development To Improve Student Achievement
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Good teachers form the foundation of good schools, and improving teachers’ skills and knowledge is one of the most important investments of time and money that local, state, and national leaders make in ... - How to ‘Roar’
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Tips for using grassroots organizing to engage your school’s parents. Families with Power/Familias con Poder used grassroots organizing principles to create a thriving organization ... - Using Primary Sources
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Listen as 4th Grade teacher, Kristen Miller, describes using a viewfinder to help her students test the reliability of primary source art in her social studies classroom. ... - Interactive Reader
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Interactive read aloud places more responsibility on students to share what they are thinking in a way that simulates an authentic reading experience. Since successful readers read, monitor their ... - Cubing
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National Board Certified elementary school teacher, Kristen Miller, shares how she uses cubing to build higher-order thinking skills with her students. Look for: ... - Say-Mean-Matter
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High School teacher, Michelle Rainey, presents the technique Say-Mean-Matter that she uses to help her English students understand and analyze text. Look for: ... - Motivation
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Motivated students want to learn and are less likely to be disruptive or disengage from the work of the classroom. Motivation stems from numerous factors: interest in the subject matter, perceptions of its ... - Silent Fails
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There are all kinds of students. It seems like some students were made for school success. They have cracked the code of academic success, make A's and B's and live on the Honor Roll. Other students ... - Reflecting on Practice
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Is your classroom a calm, relaxing day or a violent, destructive storm? Is it sunny, cloudy or rainy? Is it frigidly cold? Are you a calm, refreshing breeze or a tornado? Metaphors ... - Authentic Relationships
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Ask any veteran teacher and they will tell you that the stronger the relationship with the student, the less likely behavioral problems will erupt in the classroom. Good relationships equal good classroom ... - Using Plain Terms
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Beyond the language we speak, the words we choose can help or hinder the effectiveness of communication with parents and guardians. How do our word choices assist or prevent necessary interaction? How might ... - Overcoming Language Barriers
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Many U.S. cities with large, established ethnic enclaves have long sought to welcome newly arrived immigrants and their children. Yet, small towns and cities have less experience identifying and meeting the ... - Inviting Engagement
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U.S. classrooms are growing more diverse — ethnically, culturally and linguistically. In response, teachers and educational advocates are employing new strategies, and adapting tried-and-true strategies, to ... - Mythtakes - Working With Racially and Ethnically Diverse Students
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This professional development activity examines common beliefs that help and hinder work with racially and ethnically diverse students. Framework: Teachers want students to ... - Honoring Home Languages
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Teachers are often a young immigrant's first regular, ongoing contact with someone outside their home community and culture. It's a relationship that can provide the emotional scaffolding necessary ... - Culturally Relevant Curriculum
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Curriculum, in its most simple, essential, commonly understood form, is the "what" of education. It is crucial to academic performance and essential to culturally responsive pedagogy. Even the most ... - Democratic Classrooms
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Educators possess different philosophies and styles for their teaching. Some work from an authoritarian perspective, leveraging their power as the teacher to control student behavior and dictate ... - Engaging Curriculum
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"Why do we have to learn this?" It's a question that teachers dread, and it speaks to a curriculum that, for whatever reason, doesn't engage students. Maybe it's a curriculum that is ... - Differentiated Instruction
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If educators have learned anything in the last decade of school reform initiatives it is that one size does not fit all. Differentiated Instruction (DI) is an approach where teachers proactively plan varied ... - Family Engagement
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Most teachers have a technique or two in their back-to-school tool kits for introducing themselves to families and taking those first steps to engage parents and other caregivers in the classroom and the ... - Tips for Test Success
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How teachers can help students get ready for test days Prior to test days ... Send notes home to parents and guardians asking that they help students ... Get ... - How Stereotypes Undermine Test Scores
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Subtle changes in test environments can improve standardized test scores among students of color and girls. For more than 10 years, New York University associate professor Joshua ... - Controversial Subjects in the Classroom
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Invariably, issues are raised in classrooms that bring charged responses from students. How can educators set the stage for safe, respectful dialogue and learning? Three students in ... - Reflection: When I Feel...
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This activity helps students understand the difference between charity (responsible for others) and service (responsible to others). Use in conjunction with class discussions and activities examining the ... - Multicultural Service-Learning: Teacher Planning Sheet
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This planning sheet can help educators design and implement service-learning projects that support prejudice reduction. Emphasis is placed on collaboration, direct service and advocacy. ...
