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Volume 15 | Issue 8 | December 26, 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
Roberta Lenger Kang
For teachers to persevere through challenges, they need a community of peers, ongoing professional development, and on-demand support.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Devorah Heitner
By directly addressing the challenges and benefits of technology, teachers provide more opportunities for learning, increase trust, and improve classroom harmony.
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.
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.
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.
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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