Teaching and Curriculum

Effective classroom practices

Building vocabulary to improve reading in middle school

Article featuring: Catherine Snow

Treating the “instructional core”: Education rounds

Article featuring: Richard Elmore, Elizabeth City, and Lee Teitel

Restoring the balance: Putting the adolescent reading crisis in context

Article featuring: Vicki Jacobs

Summer reading and summer not: Fighting the summer reading slump

Article featuring: James Kim

Developing flexibility in mathematical problem solving

Article featuring: Jon Star

From quantities to quality: How mathematical knowledge leads to better math teaching

Article featuring: Heather Hill

Reading, writing, and reform

Article featuring: Terry Tivnan

Morphological analysis: New light on a vital reading skill

Article featuring: Nonie Lesaux

Early childhood education and beyond: Teacher-child relationships and learning

Interview featuring: Jacqueline Zeller

What is teaching for understanding?

Article featuring: David Perkins and Tina Blythe

Reading and writing for understanding

Article featuring: Vicki Jacobs

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Gaining insight into student work

Rounds for teachers

Article featuring: Steve Seidel

Ideal world

Article featuring: Catherine Elgin

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Global education

Growing Up Globally

Article featuring: Fernando Reimers

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Learning needs of the future

Technology and youth: A remix that is changing the education landscape

Article and videos featuring: Helen Haste

Five Minds for the Future

Article and video featuring: Howard Gardner

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Online professional development

Why use the Web for professional development?

Video featuring: Stone Wiske

WIDE World

Summary and link featuring: David Perkins and Stone Wiske

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Rethinking the black/white achievement gap

Challenging the notion of “oppositional culture”

Article featuring: John Diamond

A new era of civil rights

Article featuring: Mica Pollock

Lee Academy: A school focused on closing the achievement gap

Article and video featuring: Richard Weissbourd

Everyday anti-racism

Article featuring: Mica Pollock

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Understanding the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of other people

Social perspective taking: A multidimensional approach

Article, video, and quiz featuring: Hunter Gehlbach

Learning to stand in someone else's shoes

Video featuring: Robert Selman

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