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Volume 15  |  Issue 8  |  December 26, 2019

The 10 Best Express Articles of 2019

In an annual tradition, our editors read through the nearly 100 original articles we published this year to bring you 10 of our most thought-provoking picks. We hope these ideas will spark renewed discussion, insight, and strategies for your teaching, learning, and leading in 2020.

Happy New Year,

The Editors


Features

First Year, Worst Year: A Case for New Teacher Networks

Roberta Lenger Kang

For teachers to persevere through challenges, they need a community of peers, ongoing professional development, and on-demand support.

Identity-Affirming Schools Need Race-Conscious Educators

Erica Buchanan-Rivera

Inclusive environments are catalysts to students' success. An equity and inclusion specialist shares the steps necessary to foster belonging and dismantle systems that marginalize students.

Making Classroom Libraries the Hubs of Reading Engagement

Gay Ivey

Three ideas shape classrooms where reading engagement thrives: students have access to complex and meaningful texts, students see themselves and their interests reflected in the available literature, and students have many opportunities to build relationships with and through books.

A Perfect World Is One with No Grades

Susan M. Brookhart

High-quality feedback should describe work against criteria students themselves understand and suggest attainable next steps at the appropriate level of challenge.

Start Talking with All Students About Consent

Lincoln Mondy

Conversations around consent, puberty, body image, and healthy relationships should start early in a child's life as a critical component of their education, just like math and history.

The Social Media Survival Kit Every Student Needs

Devorah Heitner

By directly addressing the challenges and benefits of technology, teachers provide more opportunities for learning, increase trust, and improve classroom harmony.

3 Steps to Supporting the Crusade for Better Student Collaboration

Jennifer Pieratt

Aligning language and goals, creating a schoolwide rubric for assessment, and a plan for scaffolding subskills will help bolster your campaign for student collaboration.

Co-Teach Your Way to Successful Inclusion

Sabrina L. Dawkins

When combining teaching styles and practices in inclusive classrooms, both teachers have to be open to growing, developing, and learning from each other.

After March for Our Lives: The Collateral Damage

Sanaa Kahloon

The landscape of learning has been forever changed by school shootings. A Kentucky teen reflects on learning in an increasingly locked-down school environment and the lost opportunity to build on the momentum of student activism.

Is the Research Trustworthy? Learn to Think Like an Investigator

Rachael Gabriel

In the long game of telephone that reaches from researchers to readers, context and evidence often go missing. Cut through the misinformation with four ways to test a source's reliability.

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