For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...

I recently had the pleasure of spending a few hours in a friend’s classroom where I introduced her students to technology applications that would engage them in “showing what they know” at different ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What do the Common Core Standards look like in Social Studies classrooms? In Part One of this series, Sarah Cooper, Michael Fisher, Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, Jody ...

With just 4 categories and less than a dozen tools, educators can hit a lot of Common Core standards I recently had the pleasure of spending a few hours in a friend’s classroom where I introduced her ...