Teaching Unscripted

Los estudiantes investigan las narrativas que marginan, así como las que centran las experiencias de la diáspora latina en los Estados Unidos. En esta lección, usamos biografías y nuestras notas para que los estudiantes participen en conversaciones y desarrollen sus propios entendimientos de sus historias.

A poor physical environment, heavy workload, and lack of administrative support are often cited as the most common challenges teachers face. Unpack how classroom environment can lead to teacher burnout.

Preparing students for algebra and beyond requires less prescriptive and regimented pedagogy and more attention to how students see themselves in their work. Read the excerpt from Jose Vilson's forthcoming You Already Know

The secret to a successful Wellness Day isn’t just offering a variety of workshops—it’s creating workshops that are engaging, so that activity becomes part of an experience and then a memory. Here are several activities that students and staff alike love to get you started on ideas.

As we determine which tasks to present to students, we have opportunities to not only offer challenges but also ensure that their work is standards-driven, lifeworthy, aspirational, and culturally sustaining. Read the excerpt from All Minds on Mathematics.

Wellness Day is a reminder that educating the whole child takes the whole community. By bringing together students, educators, families, businesses, first responders, healthcare professionals, artists, athletes, and volunteers, we create an environment where everyone has something to teach, and everyone has something to learn.

While it might be enticing to move play to screens for the limited amount of unstructured time we may have available in our classrooms, if we want to help students learn the skills they need to connect with themselves and each other, we need to offer opportunities for children to play offline.

Building a successful Wellness Day begins with thoughtful planning, collaboration, and are designed around the needs and interests of their students and staff. Here are the 8 steps to get started. Including a video from the authors.

Infusing novelty into the classroom is important because when there is too much structure the brain will zone out. Keeping it interesting keeps students engaged.

We need to create an outlet for students to reconnect with their peers, the environment, and themselves. School-wide wellness days are about creating a place and space for students to connect without devices in a safe, structured environment.

A classroom with designated focus areas helps students regulate their attention, reduces distractions, and enhances learning outcomes.

Planning for the demands of a text starts with assessing the text itself. Jennifer Serravallo breaks down how every text makes its own demands on a reader and how to approach it.

Our students' attention has changed, and there's research behind why. Jennifer Serravallo breaks down the active view of reading and how we can explicitly teach stamina and focus .

Explicit instruction turns talking and writing from classroom routine into real engines of comprehension. Talking and writing is most powerful when we teach students how to build a discussion, how to choose what matters, how to jot a note that's worth revisiting, how to shape a written response with purpose.

We build knowledge through content study and thoughtful text choices, but active comprehension strategies are what let kids do something with that content so it sticks.

Este post presenta una lección de En comunidad que invita a reflexionar sobre los pasos para enseñar un tema de justicia social. El objetivo es que los estudiantes aprendan sobre el tema a través de fuentes primarias y secundarias y comprendan las políticas que lo respaldan.

The five elements Jennifer Serravallo considers every time she plans a comprehension lesson. Learn more about background knowledge, vocabulary, writing about reading, strategies and prompts, and conversation.

Making small shifts in language, student grouping, partnerships, and classroom practices are a starting point for creating a safer, more inclusive environment for all students.