Distance Learning: 3 Strategies to Spark Student Engagement
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BetterLesson
Published April 30, 2020
One of the great joys of teaching is a buzzing classroom where students are presenting, collaborating, providing feedback to each other, and asking[...]
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Distance Learning: 3 Strategies to Build a Positive Classroom Culture
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BetterLesson
Published April 28, 2020
As thousands of schools around the country have closed their doors to address the coronavirus pandemic, there’s one thing that teachers and students[...]
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Distance Learning: Reaching Students with Limited Virtual Access
Published April 07, 2020
With the vast majority of U.S. schools closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, many districts have turned to online learning to ensure students[...]
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3 Blended Learning Strategies to Effectively Personalize Learning
Published March 17, 2020
Blended learning offers an incredible opportunity to dramatically improve student outcomes. However, it’s easy to fall into the trap of using tech[...]
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3 Tenets of Culturally Responsive Secondary Literacy Instruction
Published March 10, 2020
Across the country, we have a deep literacy problem: According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), in 2019 only 35% of 4th[...]
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Meeting the Needs of All Learners: A New Learning Domain
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BetterLesson
Published February 04, 2020
Infusing Student-Centered Literacy Practices into an Established Curriculum
Published October 22, 2019
This is the fifth blog in our Newsela student-centered literacy blog series. You can find the previous installment here and the subsequent, and[...]
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Scaffolding Academic Discussions for English Language Learners
Published October 08, 2019
This is the third blog in our Newsela student-centered literacy blog series. You can find the previous installment here and the subsequent[...]
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Unpacking Student-Centered Instruction for Literacy
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BetterLesson
Published September 17, 2019
Student-centered literacy instruction is a skills-rich and text-robust approach to teaching literacy that emphasizes student choice and ownership of[...]
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Top 5 Instructional Strategies for Student-Centered Teaching and Learning
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BetterLesson
Published September 12, 2019
One of the most prominent themes in K-12 education right now is student-centered instruction. Brown University Education Alliance defines a[...]
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