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Discover six strategies to deliver differentiated instruction for gifted students.

Ellen Ullman
Shaped Contributor

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Find out ways to use data to individualize instruction for special education students.

Dr. Suzanne Jimenez
Director of Academic Planning and Data Analytics at HMH

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Celebrate the Festival of Lights with these Hanukkah classroom games and activities for elementary students.

Jordan Friedman
Former Shaped Editor

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Looking for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month ideas? We've got you covered with activities spanning Grades Pre-K–12.

Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Executive Editor

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A teacher’s self-care is created by reflection, refraction, and dispersion.

Noelle Morris
Senior Director Community Engagement, HMH; Host of HMH Learning Moments: Teachers in America Podcast

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April is National Arab American Heritage month! It’s a culturally important moment to celebrate the community’s history and potentially teach your students something new.

Zoe Del Mar
Shaped Executive Editor

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Explore tips for using PBIS student surveys to improve your PBIS program. Identify areas that need improvement.

Amanda Clark
Shaped Contributor

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Explore 10 benefits of behavior choice contracts and how they can be helpful in specifying expectations for behavior in the classroom.

Amanda Clark
Shaped Contributor

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Explore response to intervention (RTI) strategies for each intervention tier. RTI principles provide a framework to assess student achievement.

Sara Austin
Shaped Contributor

Writing Feedback for Students

Save time with these effective feedback strategies for improving student writing.

Owen Bondono
Shaped Contributor

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Learn the difference between formative assessment vs. summative assessment and find examples of the different types of assessment.

Jennifer Prescott
Shaped Contributor

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From a museum to a bakery to a carnival, Autumn Dvorak's classroom transformations use hands-on projects and games to get her students excited about learning.

Ali Habashi
Former Shaped Editor

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Discover evidence-based strategies to help improve the reading skills of students with dyslexia so they can achieve school success.

Renee Behring
Education Research Director, Core ELA

Dr. Amy Endo
Education Research Director, Supplemental & Intervention Language & Literacy

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Learn more about schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports (SWPBIS), a framework for promoting positive behaviors and appropriate interventions.

Sara Austin
Shaped Contributor

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Guide students in their oral communication skills with tips from an educator.

Erik Palmer
Program Consultant, Into Reading and Into Literature

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Because research shows engineering can help students understand what they can do with the knowledge they learn in science, encouraging them to invent and create is a natural outcome.

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Introducing the 5 W questions to your classroom is an important lesson to help students think about a topic and what they want to know about it.

Zoe Del Mar
Shaped Executive Editor

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Why PBIS? Explore the benefits of PBIS in schools, and how it can create a lasting positive change.

Sara Austin
Shaped Contributor

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