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6 Cool Visual Thinking Activities That Strengthen Student Writing Visual activities like mapping, sketching, sculpting, and writing comic strips can help students clarify ideas, strengthen drafts, and deepen literary analysis.

Visual activities like mapping, sketching, sculpting, and writing comic strips can help students clarify ideas, strengthen drafts, *and* deepen literary analysis. 🗺️ ✍️

#literacy #EduSky

A screen showing a worksheet asking "Why?" "How?" "Can?" "Should?" "Would?" etc.

Student reflections written on sticky notes in response to various prompts.

Close up of student sticky notes sharing a "should" opinion about their learning.

💡 How do you invite students to share questions and opinions after a lesson?

Here's a strategy from educator Felicia Henderson:

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As well as being an educator and an active member on #EduSky, I am a self-published author. Please check out my titles at url-shortener.me/F08Y I've got historical fiction, superhero fiction, kids silly books, and two titles where the hero is a social studies teacher. Yeah, we can be heroes. Thanks!

Cult of Pedagogy!

Who are the essential voices in education that you follow online? Hey everyone! 😁 Edutopia’s working on curating a list of the most essential voices in education right now, and we want *your* recommendations! Who are the “must-follow” accounts that fuel your…

We’re working on curating a list of the most essential voices in education right now, and we want your recommendations. 📣

Who are the “must-follow” accounts that fuel your practice?

12 Ways to Activate Your Students’ Prior Knowledge Threading prior knowledge into new material makes for more durable learning. Here are 12 research-backed, teacher-tested strategies to help kids unpack what they already know.

Edutopia’s @andreatamayo.bsky.social lays out 12 evidence-based strategies to help kids unpack what they already know to learn new material. 📦🧠

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📣 Calling all support staff! We've EXTENDED the registration deadline for NEA's upcoming #ESP conference, March 27-29 in Anaheim, CA. Be sure to register by Wednesday, February 18, at 11:59 p.m.!

11 Classroom Management Tweaks You Don’t Learn in Teacher Prep Over time, every teacher makes small changes that have a big impact on how their classes run. A veteran teacher shares the hacks that work for him.

Here's a collection of some of the more unique classroom management techniques I've gathered over the years.

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What’s something you learned that truly stuck? Asked by Jay M, Podcast Guest

Let’s talk about formative assessment! 💬

On this week’s episode of School of Practice, we chat with veteran educator Jay McTighe about how to use formative assessments like an expert teacher. He’s here in our community forum if you have questions or thoughts to share: edut.to/469GuJx

1-Minute Read. Brain-Based Learning. Coaching Executive Functioning Skills. By Daniel Vollrath.

Executive functioning is a set of powerful cognitive skills that help students manage their emotions, thoughts, and responsibilities.

Here’s a quick five-minute mini lesson high school teacher Daniel Vollrath uses to strengthen these skills.

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Optimizing Working Memory in the Classroom Research shows that distractions, confusing material, or an overwhelming amount of information can tax a student’s working memory. Here’s how to better support this essential executive function.

How does working memory function? And how can you better support it for students in your classroom? We've got 5 tips to help. 🧠

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Screenshot from a NYT article on encouraging boys to read. #Edusky

Real, Fake, or Deepfake? This Lesson Helps Students Decide Students examine videos and online information to investigate what is real and what is not in this engaging lesson.

Here’s a way to help middle school students investigate the information around them! 🕵️

In this 60-minute lesson, students evaluate a few websites and short videos—learning strategies to identify misinformation and use evidence to defend their thinking.

#MiddleSchoolTeacher #MediaLiteracy #EduSky

Today in 8th Grade Computer apps we're going to be "Privacy Policy Detectives" as we explore the changes in TikTok's privacy policy.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TRgPzMgeQkdV8iH1BAB5n7myOF8vDnMfn8f1y3wCuyQ/edit?usp=sharing&utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Vicki%20Davis

5 Models Teachers Can Use for Asking Higher Level Questions More and better questioning allows students to work at higher levels of rigor. Barbara Blackburn shares five options teachers can use to improve what they ask.

5 WAYS TO ASK HIGHER LEVEL QUESTIONS

Teaching coach & author Barbara Blackburn says higher level questioning adds rigor & can help all students reach the learning summit. #edusky #educoach #teachersky @barbararblackburn.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social

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Helping Middle and High School Students Cultivate Habits That Support Learning Through explicit instruction, teachers can help students develop the skills necessary to do well in school.

We sometimes ask students to “do better” without ever teaching them how.

This piece explores why explicit instruction in learning habits matters and how level-setting helps students become stakeholders in their own success.

#EduSky #TeacherSky

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Why Students Forget—and What You Can Do About It Our brains are wired to forget, but there are research-backed strategies you can use to make your teaching stick.

To learn more about the research, read our article: edut.to/49LzMdE

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I try to have a personal/unique interaction with every student. I also unleash a terrible dad joke periodically! They should look forward to entering the classroom.

Why Students Don’t Ask for Help – and How to Change That 1. Modeling: Lead by Example 2. Structure: Designing for Engagement 3. Communication: Changing the Narrative Around Help-Seeking Via Teacher Cathleen Beachboard and Edutopia

"I saw students go from silent frustration to actively seeking help. The problem wasn’t their ability. It wasn’t even their motivation. The real barrier? Social norms."

From T @cathleenbeachbd.bsky.social, via @edutopia.org: www.edutopia.org/article/gett...

13 Tips to Quickly Deliver Super Effective Feedback These efficient feedback strategies support student learning without sacrificing a teacher's nights and weekends.

Cut at-home grading time, strengthen instruction, *and* give students the timely feedback they need with these teacher-recommended techniques. 📝

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AI Isn’t the Main Problem—It Just Shows Us What That Problem Is Students are chasing points and grades because that’s what the education system prioritizes, but we can guide them to focus on learning.

Students might use AI, @mrrablin.bsky.social says, if they think they can’t succeed without it—so he has tips for building their self-efficacy. 🧰

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How to Successfully Institute Student-Led Conferences at Your School A middle school principal on how teachers, students, and families have benefited from an initiative that guides students to take ownership of their learning.

“During the conference, we’ve had parents become emotional and tear up with pride, having never heard their child speak about themselves in this way.” 🧡

Here’s what happened when this school started implementing student-led conferences.

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The Ones Left Behind: Building Belonging in a Transient School Community I recently conducted a survey with middle school students at my overseas international school. I was looking for information about student feelings about trusted adults they felt comfortable approa…

Latest blog post about what we can do for the students left behind in a school with a high turnover rate. educationalexploits.com/2025/12/16/t... #edusky

I created a student survey and instead of analysing the data on my own, I did it with the help of the students. So enlightening!

Honored to be included in this list! Our study (with @damcotto.bsky.social) examined how students ("capable problem solvers") may benefit from using scratch paper because they are able to offload information from their working memory and reintegrate it later.

Prioritizing Learning Despite AI: Tips for Secondary Teachers Students are chasing points and grades because that’s what the education system prioritizes, but we can guide them to focus on learning.

"If students are using AI to accomplish a goal... their goal isn’t learning... Generative AI just demonstrates that schools have gotten so caught up in the points-grades-GPA game that students have lost sight of the real goal: learning." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #AIEdu

AI Isn’t the Main Problem—It Just Shows Us What That Problem Is Students are chasing points and grades because that’s what the education system prioritizes, but we can guide them to focus on learning.

This article gets it: www.edutopia.org/article/prio... #edusky

My Top Podcast of 2025 Spotify

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast got my top spot. More in my #SpotifyWrapped.
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A middle school student has 8 teachers. If each one gives only 20 minutes of homework, that student will drown in work. We need to assign only what is essential, and at least coordinate with each other.

The 6/7 meme has been everywhere lately, but what’s fascinating is who is actually into it. My younger students can’t get enough of it.

Older students call it “brain rot" and want nothing to do with it. It’s wild watching some of them realize that you can actually be aged out of a fad.