The Literacy Playbook: Integrate Literacy Into Every Period, Every Day
When students are struggling with literacy, consider teaching it schoolwide during every period of every day. This is what Valley High School implemen…
Tag: Instructional Strategies
Supporting Student Identity and Agency: Cultivating Civic Competency and Anti-Bias Awareness in Our Schools
How do we prepare students not only to succeed in college and career, but also to engage meaningfully and ethically in a diverse democracy? Civic comp…
Develop Literacy Skills and Civic Competency: Plan the ‘Writing Letters for Change’ Activity
Do Something performance tasks ask students to demonstrate their anti-bias awareness and civic competency by applying their literacy and social justic…
Liberatory Design Cards: Engage Your Students in Equity Center Design
Create opportunities for the human-centered designer to notice and reflect on the identities, experiences and biases they bring to a design opportunit…
The Challenge Zone: Implement These Techniques to Build a Culture of Critical Thinking
Using these techniques in daily interactions with educators, students, and parents can shape a shared respect for critical thinking that’s accessibl…
Create a Learning Progression for Measuring Student Outcomes
The Novice–Expert Continuum is a unique framework that captures the evolution of students’ learning processes as they progress from following proc…
Student-Led SEL Implementation: Develop Schoolwide SEL Norms
Schoolwide norms are a set of agreed-upon expectations of how all students and staff will behave and interact to contribute to a positive school clima…
Student Empowerment: Support Student-Led Social Change
Student-led social change is not just an extracurricular activity; it is an essential part of education. When students learn how to advocate for thems…
Foster Students’ Sense of Self and Community: Develop a Community Service-Based Project Course
Develop a course where students do a community service based project.
Purposeful, Valuable Learning: Foster Learners With Autonomy and Drive
Imagine a classroom where students are no longer racing to keep up with the teacher’s lesson plan, but instead, learning at the pace that works for …