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Tch Talks 23: School Startup to Curio: Redesigning Deeper Learning
When teachers solve problems, they inspire their students to solve problems, too. How can teachers use their best strategies as a launching pad for deeper learning and professional growth? And how can curiosity, co-creation, and collaboration before a lesson idea is formed be a game-changer for classroom practice?
On this episode
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Five Strategies to Add to Your Coaching Toolbox
Whether you’re teaching or coaching, it’s easy to get into a rut. But these five videos are here to help! Clocking in at just five minutes each, these videos will expand your ideas about what coaching can be and push you to try new strategies.
Building Coaching Relationships
How well do you
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10 Top-Notch Strategies in 12 Minutes: Student Participation
Every teacher strives for an active classroom buzzing with engaged and eager students. However, even the most experienced teachers face days when it seems like they’re the only one talking and the students have simply tuned out. Or, perhaps your students are so engaged and so eager to participate that
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Scholar Activism: Reflections on Becoming a Scholar-Activist
Tch Laureate Geneviève Debose Akinnagbe teaches ELA at Bronx Studio School for Writers and Artists (BSSWA) in New York City, a secondary school where teachers refer to their students as Scholar-Activists. She’s developed a unit on Scholar Activism for her middle school students to give them a better idea of what that title means
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Ensuring Equity for Every Student
I had never heard of the "achievement gap" until the summer after my first year of teaching. It was after reading Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gap, that I became aware of the gap in educational achievement between white and minority students.
This stubborn gap has persisted throughout my
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Six Smart Strategies in Six Minutes: Classroom Management
Managing a classroom is never easy — even for the most seasoned and experienced educators. Even more, every class of students is different, and a great strategy that works with one group may not necessarily work with the next. That’s why it’s smart to build a toolbox full of strategies
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Practices in Action: Ecobottles as a Model Ecosystem
Anyone who has spent time learning about the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) is familiar with the three-dimensional aspect of the Standards — an integration of disciplinary core ideas, cross-cutting concepts, and science and engineering practices. While most would reason science education has always involved themes and practices in addition
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Scholar Activism: Student Presentations to a Community Panel
Tch Laureate Geneviève Debose Akinnagbe teaches ELA at Bronx Studio School for Writers and Artists (BSSWA) in New York City, a secondary school where teachers refer to their students as Scholar-Activists. She’s developed a unit on Scholar Activism for her middle school students to give them a better idea of what that title means
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Tch Tips: Teaching Collaboration Skills
We all want our students to work together. But how do we do it? True collaboration is much more than just having students work with each other. As teacher David Olio points out in this video, students often learn most deeply from their peers. Spending time teaching students how to collaborate
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Getting Better Together: Collaborating Around Instructional Priorities
It's nearly impossible to put into words what educators feel when the bell rings on the final day of school. The sheer joy of entering into weeks of bell-free, kid-free, and paper-free days alone is almost worth entering into the profession. In June, the new school year seems so far
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Mid-Year Check-in: Assessing Your Year So Far
As a teacher, January is the perfect time to check-in on YOUR progress, reflect, and reboot for 2018!
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Scholar Activism: Learning from Our Classroom Walls
Tch Laureate Geneviève Debose Akinnagbe teaches ELA at Bronx Studio School for Writers and Artists (BSSWA) in New York City, a secondary school where teachers refer to their students as Scholar-Activists. She’s developed a unit on Scholar Activism for her middle school students to give them a better idea of what that title
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Tch Talks 22: Intention & Critical Creativity in the Classroom
What is Critical Creativity?
To Dan Ryder and Amy Burval, critical creativity is “students using creative expression to demonstrate deeper thinking and the nuances of understanding content.” It's a portmanteau of sorts, which has the potential to turn ideas into action and push your students toward deeper learning and meaningful understanding.
Dan
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STEAM-ing along with Science
In October, Tch Next Gen Squadster Meg Richard was recognized with SmartBrief Education’s monthly Editor's Choice Content Award for her creative post on how to engage students and STEAM through Halloween with 13 fun and creative lesson ideas.
Listen to Meg talk about her work with Larry Jacobs on Education Talk Radio.
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How Do You Measure A Year: Tch Year in Review
Take a look back and reflect on all we’ve done to get better together this year!
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Tchers' Voice: Top Blog Posts of 2017
In 2017, we published posts from writers across the country, covering topics from classroom management to the solar eclipse. These were your favorite!
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Tch Hits: The Top 15 Videos of 2017
What were teachers and educators watching in 2017? Take a look at the most viewed videos on Teaching Channel for the year.
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Hello Darkness: Light Bulb Moments for the Longest Nights of the Year
Whether you're looking for ways to get students engaged with the darkness around us during this time of year or enamored with the bright lights of the season, here are some tips and tricks to use around the solstice to help students embrace phenomena and enjoy the holiday season.
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The Power of Student Voice in First-Person Commentaries
Discover how commentaries can inform, persuade, and build empathy -- making them powerful tools for civic engagement and fostering deeper community conversation.
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KLEWS: Supporting Claims, Evidence & Reasoning
Watch one teacher plan, deliver, and reflect on her lesson as she engages her students with the KLEWS strategy.
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Calling All Bloggers: Submit Your Teacher Retention Ideas
We want you to join our Tchers’ Voice blogger community, so you can share your voice and make an impact on teachers who need your story, advice, and practical solutions.
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What to Do for the Most Challenging Students in Your Class
Discover the key to improving student behavior and some helpful strategies to get your students back on track.
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The Human Side of Teacher Teams and PLCs
When it comes right down to it, teaching in general, and working as part of a professional learning community (PLC) specifically, are very human endeavors. Our charge as educators and the interactions we have with each other in pursuit of that charge are very personal, indeed.
As such, it’s easy to forget when we're
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Scholar Activism: Community Action and the Beauty of the Bronx
Watch students engage with a community organization called Citizens Committee for New York City to actively improve their school community in the Bronx.
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Tch Tips: Four Tips for Surviving December
You can survive and even thrive in December! Here are four tips to get you through to the season.