21st Century Skills

Encourage creativity, communication, innovation, and collaboration in students by incorporating engineering design process thinking into existing classwork. Gain strategies for supporting engineering practices that foster creative problem-solving and critical thinking.

Prepare your students for the future. Use innovative classroom practices to teach 21st century skills and create personalized learning experiences for students. Learn how future-focused pedagogy, including strength-based learning, can ensure college and career readiness for all students.

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.

Use the academic tasks students already do for social-emotional learning. Integrate student values into academic instruction and make learning meaningful for students. This book will guide teachers in helping students connect their work to their values, empowering them to redefine success.

Transform how your school operates to better prepare students. Learn how the six areas of school management and structure—school and community partnerships, instruction, school timing and scheduling, physical learning environments, educational technology, and budget—intersect to affect students’ academic performance.

Become a highly effective, learning-progressive school that utilizes PLC processes and well-implemented RTI structures to promote student agency. Increase authentic learning, engaging students in personalized learning experiences.

Developed specifically for grades 9–12, this resource presents classroom-tested lessons that help take instruction and learning to the next level through technology.

Developed specifically for grades 6–8, this resource presents classroom-tested lessons that help take instruction and learning to the next level through the use of technology.

Developed specifically for grades K–2, this resource presents classroom-tested lessons that help take instruction and learning to the next level through the use of technology.

Part of the NOW Classrooms series, this guidebook outlines how to create an engaging, student-centered learning environment using technology.