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product | For Middle Level & High School • Grades K-12

17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong

Strategies That Engage Students, Promote Active Learning, and Boost Achievement

From observing over 17,000 classrooms, the authors provide valuable insight into how to smooth the transition from simply planning instruction to designing high-quality student work.

17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong
product | Middle Level - Senior High

Activators

Classroom Strategies for Engaging Students

Activators, Classroom Strategies for Engaging Students
article | For Middle Level

Active Process Engages Learners

Student plan and reflect their way to success

Slow down lessons to give students time to plan before working and reflect afterward to fully engage them in learning.

product | For Elementary • K-3

Amazing Grace

For use with creating Hopes and Dreams and goal setting: Grace overcomes obstacles through her determination.

Amazing Grace book
article | For Middle Level

An Idealist's Practical Steps to Achieve Goals

CPR and Social Contract provide foundation and guidelines

At the start of every school year, do you dream about the amazing community of learners you'll be teaching? Read how this educator set her students up for success by establishing a social contract and creating a strong advisory.

article | For Middle Level

Art-making Themes for Staff Goal Setting

This article first appeared in Developmental Designs: A Middle-Level Newsletter, Fall 2010

product | For Middle Level

Beyond the Bake Sale

The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships

Beyond the Bake Sale
article | For Middle Level

Coaches' Corner: Goals in a Jar

Weekly goals invigorate learning and build skills for goal fulfillment

Students develop a better understanding of how to set meaningful, short-term goals and how to take action to achieve those targets.

 

DD Newsletter Winter 2012: Coaches' Corner
article | For Middle Level

Coaches' Corner: Keeping the Social Contract Alive

Weave the ideals of your Social Contract through all-school meetings, student reflections, and community-building meetings.

 

article | For Middle Level

Coaches' Corner: Score Your Advisories

Up student buy-in by having them rate their advisory meetings

How effective is your advisory? You'll see when you let students rate and assess their meetings!  

Lively greetings, activities, and sharings make for successful advisories.

Elementary

product | For Elementary • K-3

Amazing Grace

For use with creating Hopes and Dreams and goal setting: Grace overcomes obstacles through her determination.

Amazing Grace book
activity | For Middle Level & Elementary

Essential Questions

Engaged learning strategy: students use a series of questions written on cards to explore curriculum topics

activity | For Middle Level & Elementary

Fact or Fiction

Engaged learning strategy: students attempt to distinguish between facts and fictions about a specific curriculum topic

product | For Middle Level & Elementary • K-8

Kids Taking Action

Community Service Learning Projects, K-8

Kids Taking Action book cover
activity | For Middle Level & Elementary

PMI (Plus, Minus, Interesting) Reflection Form

Engaged learning strategy: Use this PMI (Plus, Minus, Interesting) form to guide student reflection following a social or academic experience.

activity | For Middle Level & Elementary

Reading Interest Inventory

Engaged learning strategy: Gather information about students' reading interests

Middle Level

product | For Middle Level & High School • Grades K-12

17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong

Strategies That Engage Students, Promote Active Learning, and Boost Achievement

From observing over 17,000 classrooms, the authors provide valuable insight into how to smooth the transition from simply planning instruction to designing high-quality student work.

17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong
article | For Middle Level

Active Process Engages Learners

Student plan and reflect their way to success

Slow down lessons to give students time to plan before working and reflect afterward to fully engage them in learning.

article | For Middle Level

An Idealist's Practical Steps to Achieve Goals

CPR and Social Contract provide foundation and guidelines

At the start of every school year, do you dream about the amazing community of learners you'll be teaching? Read how this educator set her students up for success by establishing a social contract and creating a strong advisory.

article | For Middle Level

Art-making Themes for Staff Goal Setting

This article first appeared in Developmental Designs: A Middle-Level Newsletter, Fall 2010

product | For Middle Level

Beyond the Bake Sale

The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships

Beyond the Bake Sale
article | For Middle Level

Coaches' Corner: Goals in a Jar

Weekly goals invigorate learning and build skills for goal fulfillment

Students develop a better understanding of how to set meaningful, short-term goals and how to take action to achieve those targets.

 

DD Newsletter Winter 2012: Coaches' Corner
article | For Middle Level

Coaches' Corner: Keeping the Social Contract Alive

Weave the ideals of your Social Contract through all-school meetings, student reflections, and community-building meetings.

 

article | For Middle Level

Coaches' Corner: Score Your Advisories

Up student buy-in by having them rate their advisory meetings

How effective is your advisory? You'll see when you let students rate and assess their meetings!  

Lively greetings, activities, and sharings make for successful advisories.
article | For Middle Level

Coaches' Corner: Skillful Use of Visual Reminders

Y-charts catch students' attention and remind them of how a routine should look, sound, and feel. Can too many charts cause their heads to swim?

 

article | For Middle Level

Creating Declarations

A blueprint for making meaningful student goals this fall

Start off the year right with this step-by-step guide to successful goal-setting.