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Students do not put up walls to avoid relationships, but to see who cares enough to break the walls down. Research shows that building relationships with students increases engagement, motivation, test scores, and grade point averages while decreasing absenteeism, dropout rates, and discipline issues.

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.

Rely on Shifting to Digital to give you clear, concise, and helpful answers to all of your remote teaching questions. This comprehensive guide provides specific strategies for planning high-engagement instruction, handling technology, assessing collaboration and assignments, and more.

Choose soft edges over hard edges to deliver assessment for learning and student engagement. Align students’ and teachers’ needs with assessment practices meant to meet learning targets. Use responsible assessment methods to smoothly guide students so confidence grows and their experiences are positive and relevant.

Increase the achievement of every learner with Student Self-Assessment. In this practical guide, author Katie White outlines how to plan and implement various self-assessment strategies to ensure student growth at all grade levels. She covers every stage of the process—from setup to goal setting to celebrating.

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.

Empower your fourth- to sixth-grade learners to think with inquiry-based learning. Using guided rubrics and tools, teachers can realistically assess, evaluate, and integrate inquiry into their curriculum. Learn the specific needs and learning stages of students as they explore, synthesize, consolidate, and reflect on their learning.

Empower your learners to think with inquiry-based learning. Using guided rubrics and tools, teachers can realistically assess, evaluate, and integrate inquiry into their curriculum. Learn the specific needs and learning stages of grades 7–9 students as they explore, synthesize, consolidate, and reflect on their learning.

Empower your kindergarten learners to think with inquiry-based learning. Using guided rubrics and tools, teachers can realistically assess, evaluate, and integrate inquiry into their curriculum. Learn the specific needs and learning stages of students as they explore, synthesize, consolidate, and reflect on their learning.

Empower your first- to third-grade learners to think with inquiry-based learning. Using guided rubrics and tools, educators can realistically assess, evaluate, and integrate inquiry into their curriculum. Discover the specific needs and learning stages of elementary students as they explore, synthesize, consolidate, and reflect on their learning.