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2018 Texas Senate Race: O'Rourke vs Cruz
Editor's Note: Anekah Kelley, a student in Janelle Bence's freshman English class, is one of three students who have written and graciously allowed us to publish their thougths about the midterm elections. Their assignment was to take a 30-minute walk around their neighborhoods, take pictures of the political signs they came across,
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Making Midterm Elections Meaningful: Awakening Civic Engagement Through Walkabouts
High school is a pivotal time for students for many reasons. Youth are entering a new school. They are discovering more about their identities and exploring their beliefs, and it is a time when they become more familiar with current events and civic issues. Teenagers are making sense of important
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Fall Into Phenomena: Using NGSS to Harvest Student Investigations
What are you doing engage your students and bring relevance into your science classroom this fall? Try pairing anchoring phenomena with an anticipatory set to create investigations and sense-making for the season.
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High Quality Project-Based Learning with Jennifer Pieratt
Jenny was recognized with Smartbrief Education's monthly Editor's Choice Content Award for her post on Deciding When PBL Makes Sense for Your Year. Listen to Jenny talk about her work with Larry Jacobs on Education Talk Radio.
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Un-Columbus Day
Tips for how you can reframe Columbus Day in a creative way to decenter Columbus and celebrate a more inclusive, accurate historical narrative.
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Family Engagement: An Amazon Gift Card for Your Thoughts!
Tell us what's what's important to you about teacher and family partnerships and we’ll enter your name for a $50 Amazon gift card. How’s that for an incentive?
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Tch Tips: Three Ways to Help Students Build Confidence
Consider using these strategies to help students develop a strong sense of self and the confidence to speak out.
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Five Things I Wish I Knew in Year One
I’m certain this piece has been written before. Time and time again, teachers with far more experience than I have shared their reflections as a means of providing tips to new and veteran teachers alike — and that’s okay.
This piece isn’t just for you — it’s also for me. It’s
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Preparing Students to Access Complex Texts
The objective of great teaching is to help find access points for all children to learn complex ideas.
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Tch September 2018 Rewind
In case you missed any of the great ideas we explored this month on Tchers’ Voice, let’s recap our smart September lineup, filled with great ideas from passionate educators just like you!
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Connecting Black Boys and Their Families with School and Success
Connecting is about looking at the structures of learning that were not built for Black boys and finding a way to make them work. If students aren’t connecting with school or with us, it’s our responsibility as the adults in the relationship to find out why.
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Are You Coachable?
If you're coachable and willing to take feedback to improve, your instruction becomes stronger and positively impacts student learning.
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Tips for Building Your Classroom Library
Try these tips to build a well-stocked classroom library, full of texts your students love.
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Creating Citizen Scientists: Connecting Students to the World
Connecting the classroom with the outside world provides students with a starting point for interacting with society and someday changing it for the better.
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Tch Tips: Make the Most Out of Your Coaching Experience
Coaches can make your teaching life easier by giving you the tools and feedback you need to succeed. Use these tips to make the most of your time with your coach.
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Assessment Literacy: The Most Cost-Effective Cure for Our Schools
Improving the assessment literacy of educators is, hands-down, the most cost-effective way to improve the effectiveness of our schools.
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Building Literacy Skills Through Storytelling
Storytelling as a tool for tracking student progress over time creates not only a record, but also a positive support for struggling writers.
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Peek at the Process: Learn By Watching Students Write
As you think about your writing instruction this year, think about finding time to watch your students write; it might be as close as we can get to truly peeking inside their minds during the process.
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Respecting Black Boys In a Way That Supports Excellence
Respecting Black boys is about defying the narrative and helping them to do so as well.
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The Necessity of Instructional Coaching: Helping New Teachers Thrive
As teachers, we are often confined within our four walls and rarely get a chance to learn by watching other teachers. But as coaches, we can help teachers see different approaches without even leaving their classrooms!
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International Dot Day: A Celebration of Courage and Creativity
The Dot is an invitation for people of all ages to be creative. No matter how you celebrate, Dot Day is a moment to make your personal mark on the world.
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Word of the Day
In a classroom where language takes center stage, a student dealing with communication issues or dyslexia can find themselves completely lost. In this post, 2014 Oregon TOY Brett Bigham adapts Madeline Noonan's "Word of the Day" lesson for students who struggle in the classroom.
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Active Learning: A Strategy for Science Sensemaking
A new Tch DIY video series from Tch Laureate Meg Richard, who asks us to remember where our students are coming from and to strive to implement exciting strategies in all content areas so students can actively fall in love with learning in our classrooms.
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Putting Thoughts on Paper: Start with a Storyboard!
As a special education teacher, I know many students have trouble analyzing text and recalling information. General education teachers see students facing similar hurdles; however, many of my students don't even have the vocabulary to share everything they've learned.
I suspect that my students learn much more than they can ever
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Elevating the Preservice Teacher Voice in Our Math Community
Tch Laureate Kristin Gray introduces her new project, working with elementary math methods instructor Crystal Lancour to document the journey of a class of preservice teachers as they're introduced to math activities, such as the ones in Kristin's Math Routines series.