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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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Learn how integrating science and literacy in the classroom helps students behave and think like real scientists and engineers.

Marjorie Frank
Author, ELD Specialist

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Learn how to approach RTI behavior intervention for each of the three tiers. The RTI process for behavior is comprised of four steps.

Ryan Crawley
Shaped Contributor

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Introduce your students to the five competencies of SEL with these writing and journal prompts for elementary, middle, and high school.

Ali Habashi
Former Shaped Editor

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Productive discourse lends itself well to building a community where social and emotional learning in science is supported.

Dr. Cary Sneider
NGSS Writing Team Leader, Associate Research Professor at Portland State University

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Discover the benefits of technology and personalized learning in the classroom—and digital tools that can automate the personalized learning process.

Aoife Dempsey
Senior Vice President Product Management, HMH

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Happy spring! Try these 8 spring activities for elementary students for ideas to celebrate the season!

Alicia Ivory
Shaped Editor

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Discover 8 components of PBIS to support implementation. Successfully implementing a PBIS program requires many different elements to be in place.

Sara Austin
Shaped Contributor

Timothy Mugabi
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Ryan Crawley
Shaped Contributor

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Learn how to develop PBIS lesson plans. Explore the essential elements of PBIS lessons and templates by intervention tier.

Sara Austin
Shaped Contributor

Ryan Crawley
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