Teaching Unscripted

When you suspect or discover that a student has used AI without disclosing it, follow these suggestions from Meenoo Rami's A Teacher's Guide to Using AI.

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Heinemann is please that Moonlit Mountain Readers are now officially included in the UFLI Foundations Decodable Text Guide. Read the press release.

Systems that make sense for your classroom will help students feel more capable and help you feel more prepared and productive. Here are some quick, teacher-tested ways to keep things simple and smooth.

To reflect the identities and experiences of LGBTQ+ students, reflect on ways that well-intended ideas can inadvertently reinforce heteronormative practices in schools.

How do we turn debates into productive conversations? In discussions, the goal is to learn from each other so that by the end, everyone has moved closer to each other.

El translenguaje aborda las prácticas lingüísticas y la pedagogía. Es utilizar y valorar todo el repertorio lingüístico de una persona multilingüe, en lugar de limitarse estrictamente a un solo lenguaje.

Back-to-school means thinking through ways to set up your classroom’s overall culture. Here's how to incorporate SEL into our schedules to start building positive classroom communities from the very first day.

Does your teaching practice welcome and include all students? Here are some quick, small, impactful practices you can adopt that prioritize LGBTQ+ student safety and affirmation.

Teaching is stressful, and who you hang out with can greatly impact your professional growth, values, behavior, and reputation. Tom Newkirk and Kelly Gallagher have a conversation about the importance of colleagues.

Understanding the policies that shape our classrooms is vital to to helping us better educate students, advocate for them, stay aligned with our core values, and make informed and intentional decisions about our teaching.

Learn how knowledge building supports reading comprehension, vocabulary growth, and academic success within a comprehensive approach to literacy.

Cultivating calm is about creating a space that alleviates stress, enhances focus, and nurtures emotional well-being, not just for students, but for teachers, too.

Join the first National Matific Math Olympiad. Help K-8 students build math skills, boost engagement, and celebrate learning through friendly competition.

While educators often think about focus through the lens of instructional practices and classroom management, researchers have found that the physical environment can also play an important role. Read why whe classroom environment isn’t separate from learning—it helps create the conditions that make learning possible.

Whole Book Comprehension is a research-based and practical approach for grades 1-6 that combines grade-level fiction and nonfiction trade books with explicit instruction and integrated assessment to help students build and expand key comprehension skills across longer texts.

Si queremos ofrecer experiencias de aprendizaje que ayuden a nuestros niñes bilingües latines a florecer, debemos construir una narrativa educativa que coloque sus vidas y experiencias en el centro del diseño e implementación curricular.

Whole books make different demands on readers than short texts like articles, excerpts, and short stories. If your reading program is exclusively, or mostly, built around short texts and the whole books have been shelved, it’s time to course-correct.