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Discover how to create learning environments where students gain 21st century skills, realize their work matters, and know that their work travels beyond classroom walls.

Transform how you teach literacy in elementary classrooms by integrating makerspace ideas and hands-on learning experiences designed to deepen student understanding and reading comprehension.

Discover nine key thinking habits to cultivate in your K–12 students. This book helps educators explore habits, from fostering curiosity and taking risks to embracing lifelong learning. Author Nathan D. Lang-Raad dives into the challenge-based learning framework and how to integrate these habits with academic standards and 21st century skills.

Rigorous learning prepares students to face academic challenges and navigate the real world. Gain clear, research-supported guidance to balance the core values of teaching with a both innovative and impactful mindset and discover ways to help students take ownership of their learning and thrive academically.

Singletons—teachers who are the only ones teaching a specific course or subject—often ask how they can effectively participate on a collaborative team. Additionally, leaders frequently ask what they should be doing to guide and support singletons. This webinar provides participants clear direction to help singletons engage in meaningful collaboration. Teachers and leaders receive templates they can implement immediately.

With a short, reader-friendly format, these quick reads deliver practical, high-impact 21st century strategies to enhance instruction and heighten student achievement.

Research shows that desirable difficulties as achieved with spaced repetition, interleaving, and retrieval (SIR) have positive long-term impacts on student learning, because the learning sticks. This book guides you through these three techniques for a more brain-compatible classroom geared toward student success.

In this one-hour session, K-12 educators will consider the impact of social-emotional learning (SEL) on students when making instructional decisions. Using the highly effective, research-informed Equity and SEL Integration Framework, you will learn to incorporate impactful, creative strategies to craft experiences focused on preparing students for learning.

Learn how to design, implement, and assess engaging sustainable project-based learning (SPBL) units while ensuring students gain surface-, deep-, and transfer-level knowledge. Author Brad Sever offers a five-step process that partners academic growth with social-emotional skill development.

Craft a personal blueprint for teaching that ensures student learning stands as the foundation of your classroom. This resource offers research-based instructional design and teaching strategies that bolster K–12 student success throughout the learning process.