In This Issue:

    • David Brooks on understanding and nurturing emotional intelligence
    • Core beliefs that boost student motivation
    • Metacognition and the best study strategies
    • The link between hours in school and student learning
    • Ten ways to use generative AI to improve engagement and learning
    • The role of spelling in teaching phonics - and what about OG?
    • The art of the thank-you note
    • Recommended picture books
    • Tips for calming down a class
    • More generative AI suggestions

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    In This Issue:

    • Helpful dialogues with teachers after short classroom visits
    • A high-school teacher walks in students' shoes
    • Committing students' names to memory at the beginning of the year
    • What should teachers do when students don't do the reading?
    • Adding social justice content to math textbook problems
    • Prompts to get students doing informal writing
    • The joys of learning another language
    • Recommended books on middle-school relationships
    • A James Baldwin tribute
    • A study of flashcard retrieval practice
    • A counterintuitive finding on college applications
    • An anonymous student survey on absenteeism

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    In This Issue:

    • Where should students sit in a high-school classroom?
    • When students don't do assigned reading, what should teachers do?
    • High-school activities that boost students' interest in college
    • Decoding graphics as a vital part of reading comprehension
    • The link between reading skill and the amount of reading students do
    • Alternatives to using four unintentionally rude phrases
    • Using picture books to introduce the subject of death
    • Children's books on the Asian-American experience

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    by Todd Whitaker

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    In This Issue:

    • David Brooks on the unique qualities of late bloomers
    • Eight myths about the college admissions process
    • A school cellphone ban that sticks
    • Should teachers use timers during lessons?
    • Fluency 101
    • Success factors in primary-grade reading tutoring
    • A critique of credit recovery
    • High-school students who are uncertain about attending college

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    In This Issue:

    • A tribute to Dr. Ruth
    • Key insights from the year's education research
    • Preventing leadership burnout
    • Addressing teachers' classroom fears
    • A rookie teacher responds to critical feedback
    • Using open-ended math questions to differentiate instruction
    • Comparing one-on-one with small-group online tutoring
    • Building students' statistical literacy with a weekly online graph

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    In This Issue:

    • Dylan Wiliam on formative and summative assessments
    • What happens when books are radically condensed
    • The three-cueing system and how it's been understood
    • Teachers' options for students reading at or above grade level
    • ChatGPT and Rumpelstiltskin

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    In This Issue:

    • When leaders should shut up
    • Solving four perennial problems with PD
    • What kinds of readers should we raise?
    • How students can be more active in IEP meetings
    • ChatGPT in the school library
    • Picture books about differences

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    by Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Vincent Pompei, and Rachael Stewart (Corwin, 2024)

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    In This Issue:

    • How continuous improvement played out in three Memphis schools
    • Low-tech learning: five advantages
    • Tough love with required reading in college courses
    • Cross-age peer tutoring: a simple, effective way to improve reading
    • Why reading and writing should be taught together
    • Thought-provoking questions for elementary social studies
    • Recommended summer books with an urban theme

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