Reading conferences are a powerful way to connect with students, tailor reading instruction, and provide meaningful feedback that drives progress. Anna Cook shares practical tips to help conferences feel approachable and less daunting.
Lesson Support Strategies
Classroom dialogue is essential for student growth – helping learners develop critical language & thinking skills while deepening relationships with peers & teachers. Stephanie Woods shares ideas for creating structured opportunities for productive conversations.
Creating a supportive content area classroom is essential for all learners. In part two of her series, Anna Cook explores keys to fostering a supportive learning environment.
The students who walk in the door in August don’t have the same mindset & determination as those who left in May. Innovation Coach Jen Steward has a plan ready to help her students build stamina & resilience.
Time and Money – never enough of either! Jason Walke has found an often overlooked tool just wanting to be dusted off which could help bring resources into the classroom.
Innovation Coach Adam Hofer reflects on his year of implementing Building Thinking Classroom strategies in his secondary ELA classes.
Fair use and understanding copyrights are not high on most students’ “to learn” list. Sarah Ackerman has lesson ideas for making these critical lessons fun and engaging.
Vocabulary assignments typically aren’t a favorite of students, but educators know there is value. CTE Teacher Ashley Johnson tried a few new approaches which are meeting with student approval!
Communicating well keeps teachers and parents on the same page working together to help students succeed. Nicolette Lesniak shares ideas for helping students and parents transition to the next teacher smoothly.
In this series continuation, Adam reflects on a semester’s worth of lessons where he used concepts learned at a math conference in a high school English classroom.