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Find resources to help you implement project-based learning, social and emotional learning, comprehensive assessment, teacher development, integrated studies, and technology integration. Read more about our core concepts or see our list of all topics.
Growth Mindset
Embracing Failure: Building a Growth Mindset Through the Arts
Teach your students the recipe for success: taking risks, making mistakes, and integrating critical feedback.
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Communication Skills
Oracy in the Classroom: Strategies for Effective Talk
School 21 develops confident students who can articulate their thoughts and learning with strategies like discussion guidelines and roles and structured talk tasks.
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Advisory
Advisory: 22 Ways to Build Relationships for Educational Success
Nashville Big Picture High School shares many ways to build intentional relationships with students -- strategies that can work at schools of any size.
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Student Voice
Student Surveys: Using Student Voice to Improve Teaching and Learning
When teachers survey their classes at Trinidad Garza Early College High School, students see how their opinions matter and have a direct impact on instruction.
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Place-Based Learning
Turning the Community Into a Classroom
See how students investigate real issues in their communities—and check out an e-book on how to adopt this type of program.
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Place-Based Learning
A Student's Perspective on Place-Based Learning
"All I needed during middle school was to feel a part of something, and connecting to my community brought me that...
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Environmental Education
5 Benefits of Outdoor Education
An outdoor education program builds community and culture, raises expectations and standards, increases connection...
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Place-Based Learning
Place-Based Learning: Connecting Kids to Their Community
At Hood River Middle School, place-based learning makes student learning relevant and engaging by turning their local...
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Communication Skills
Oracy in the Classroom: Strategies for Effective Talk
School 21 develops confident students who can articulate their thoughts and learning with strategies like discussion guidelines and roles and structured talk tasks.
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Social and Emotional Learning
Wellbeing: Developing Empathy, Emotional Awareness, and Agency
Learn how School 21 explores topics like culture, diversity, and responsibility using drama techniques, grounding texts, and controversial statements.
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Collaborative Learning
Teaching Group Work: Building Student Collaboration and Agency
At University Park Campus School, students learn through group work that they have something to contribute.
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Advisory
Pride Advisory Classes: Social and Emotional Support for Every Student
"Going to Pride every day does something for me that no academic class can do. It's like a second home." – Deveon, a 12th-grade Urban Prep, Englewood Campus student.
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Arts Integration
Arts Integration: Resource Roundup
All points of arts integration -- from benefits and implementation to linking the arts with core curriculum -- are covered in this roundup of useful Edutopia blog posts, articles, and videos.
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Arts Integration
Rainstorms and Symphonies: Performing Arts Bring Abstract Concepts to Life
When early elementary teachers integrate music and theater, student learning improves in reading, math, and science as they become better critical thinkers and problem solvers.
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Project-Based Learning
Arts-Infused Project-Based Learning: Crafting Beautiful Work
Learn how to bring cross-curricular, arts-infused project-based learning into your classroom.
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Arts Integration
How to Infuse the Arts Into Core Curriculum (and Why It Matters)
Successful arts integration includes approaching your Curriculum like an artist, a rich process for a rich product, cultivating artist-researchers, and combining content with art.
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Social and Emotional Learning
How Gaming Connects to SEL and Career Readiness
Leverage your students’ interests in gaming to build social and emotional learning—skills that will be valuable in their future jobs.
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Technology Integration
Using Apple Teacher for Professional Development
A seasoned educator shares her tips for getting the most out of Apple resources.
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School Leadership
Networked: How Today’s Education Leaders Make Decisions
Rapid changes in technology are pushing school administrators to turn to their peers to solve some of their toughest ed-tech challenges.
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Assistive Technology
Assistive Technology: Resource Roundup
Discover websites, blog posts, articles, and videos related to understanding, selecting, and assessing assistive technology.
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Global Education
U.S. Math Scores Fall in Global Rankings
The latest PISA rankings show a decline in U.S. math scores, but experts say that focusing on successes at home may be more important.
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Social and Emotional Learning
Assessment: We Cannot Improve at Scale What We Cannot Measure
Assessment needs to directly connect with the goals of a school or district -- this is not the case with the current...
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Critical Thinking
Mastering Self-Assessment: Deepening Independent Learning Through the Arts
Develop your students' ability to self-assess by showing them examples of mastery, equipping them with technical...
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Assessment
7 Steps to Becoming a Data-Driven School
Learn to access the right data: the why (why do your students not get it?) and the how (how can you reteach content to...
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Teacher Development
Review Overload and How to Keep Content Fresh
With so much time now spent reviewing for tests, here are five ways to improve the quality of both instruction and assessment in your classroom.
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Teacher Development
How to Make IEP Meetings More Effective
Transform the Individualized Education Program meeting from a mandatory evaluative process into a student-centered discussion.
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Social and Emotional Learning
How Gaming Connects to SEL and Career Readiness
Leverage your students’ interests in gaming to build social and emotional learning—skills that will be valuable in their future jobs.
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