Guidance for educators

Providing math students with positive feedback can help them clarify their thinking, take risks, and apply concepts in new contexts.

Within these methods you’ll find close to 40 tools and tricks for finding out what your students know while they’re still learning.

Students who are doing well—but could be doing much better—benefit from feedback that encourages self-monitoring.

Reading aloud to middle and high school students encourages them to think critically, fosters a sense of community, and makes learning fun.

A look at how school leaders can promote the establishment and success of a professional learning community for teachers.

A high school teacher with four decades of experience shares the principles she has used to build student excitement in a wide variety of subjects.

There are many reasons students don’t ask for help. Research shows there are strategies to help them overcome their reluctance.

Attentive coaching and carefully crafted assessments guide high school students toward literacy skills that last a lifetime.

New materials can leave kids in the fog. Here are five metacognitive questions they can use to find their way and become more independent learners.

A few ways to set up formative and summative assessments that provide an accurate picture of what students know.

The start of a unit is a great time to encourage students to see how what they’re learning applies in different situations.

It can be a challenge to engage students when they’re at school only a few days a week—station rotations and flipping the classroom can help.

Strategies like connecting new information to students’ prior knowledge guide them to store what they’re learning in long-term memory.

When students use a questioning strategy to think about their own thinking, they can see how to transfer their learning to new situations.

Used strategically, interleaving challenges students to learn in smart, adaptive ways instead of relying on too much rote learning and muscle memory.