There's a lot of thought that goes into setting up safe and supportive classroom environments. From establishing a whole group meeting area and arranging desks, to organizing classroom supplies and creating bulletin board displays,...

What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...

Guide members of the educational community in understanding and supporting autistic learners. A kit from Autism Speaks includes an array of tools designed for parents, teachers, and community members. 

Perfect for music specialists, classroom teachers, and substitutes, a packet of 18 games includes complete lessons as well as short activities for when you have some extra time at the end of class.

Can Jerusalem be equitably organized? Can Israel and Palestine be successfully partitioned? Part one of a two-part workshop looks at the geo-political history of Jerusalem while Part two investigates Egypt's dependence of the Nile River...

In this educational research article, the use of reading partnerships in the context of classrooms where some students are learning a second language. The first part of the article discusses the benefits of adding extensive reading to...

List of collaborative group ideas to help teachers foster interaction between English language learner students in their classes.

Tactile learners learn most effectively by being able to manipulate and physically touch objects. This article explores three different tactile activities that have been found to be useful in teaching different age groups of tactile...

A Grade 8 Science teacher describes how she set up her classroom routines to facilitate group interaction and efficient use of technology tools during a UDL unit. As part of their unit on meteorology, students created a presentation on...

An excellent site for studying the Iowa prairie. Offers wonderful facts and interactive activities for students to do individually or as a group. Identifies national standards and lesson plans for the teaching of prairie life. Provides...

"Responding to Writing: Teacher to Student" [58:21] demonstrates how five teachers Jenny Beasley, Vivian Johnson, Mary Cathryn Ricker, Laurie Swistak, and Jack Wildea use student-teacher conferences to help their students improve as...

The iTunes U courses linked to below were developed by a group of classroom teachers to explain the Shifts in ELA / Literacy and mathematics required by the Common Core. Presented in partnership with The Council of Chief State School...