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When in the writing process do writers figure out a focus and decide on the point they want their writing to make?

This study guide will be your companion as you work through the book, helping you to consider how you can put the skills of social comprehension to work in your own life.

Teachers who engage in these practices understand the importance of culture to teaching, learning, growing, and developing.

We've organized a roundup of all the episodes from our Spring season and broken it down by topic to help you find the most relevant content.

You don’t have to be tech-savvy to participate in the online PD we offer. Even if you don’t have barriers to attending an on-site or off-site event, perhaps your learning preferences include smaller chunks of time, flexible scheduling, or time and space to process, practice, reflect, and synthesize new learning.

How can we help kids to identify when they have an engaged experience and how they can create the condition necessary to repeat it and create new ones? Consider these moves in your classroom

One of the biggest balancing acts of teaching is finding ways to be flexible in the often inflexible context in which you've found yourself.

As we move into the summer months, many kids will have a lot of hours to fill. As teachers, we have a lot of power to make sure that at least some of kids’ time this summer is taken up with reading.

A wrap up of the PLC series posts from 2017-18 year.

As teachers, we must cultivate the structures and beliefs in a classroom community that lay the foundation for the mathematical growth of our students. Our foundation is built on a set of nine key beliefs.

In this video, Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle, coauthors of 180 Days, reflect back on the past year; what they got to, what they didn't, what they wished they had more time for, and most importantly, what went well.

Our ideas about engagement were for formed in early childhood by our parents, and have been solidified by what our teachers did to 'motivate' us. In classrooms now, many of these old notions are concretized by what our colleagues believe about motivation and engagement.

In today’s podcast, authors Sarah K. Ahmed, Christine Hertz and Kristine Mraz discuss empathy not as something we have, but rather as an ongoing, daily practice that must be prioritized in our minds and actions.

In this video, Allison & Rebekah explain how simple it can be to get the creative juices flowing with inspiration from 'analysis in the wild'.

Rarely does an argument fully develop out of a few well-organized thoughts and statements. Rather, an argument is often the result of several extensions, clarifications, and elaborations of a few seed ideas.

The whole class, teacher included, is feeling it: the approach of summer, marked by warmer days and possibly by shorter attention spans.

Now, more than ever, our students need effective communication skills to be successful, happy, and productive citizens of our classrooms and our world.

If we want kids to learn to comprehend others' identities and perspectives, those identities and perspectives must be shared. To do this productively while also maintaining a safe environment for our kids, we may need to modify our approach.