Education Week Teacher

The Importance of Focusing on Students’ Assets

The new question-of-the-week is: What can teachers do to help highlight student assets and not their deficits? In other words, what can teachers do to help create that mindset for themselves when they look at students and what can they do to help students develop the same view?
Smart Brief

Watching them grow

In Wilson County School District, we believe that literacy is the foundation for learning. I’ve worked in education for nearly 40 years, and I’ve seen the impact that strong reading skills have on success in academics, the workplace and life.
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There’s Differentiation…

Teachers everywhere describe how tough it can be to engage every student around the same knowledge and ideas without spending tons of time customizing materials, since the learners they serve possess such varying skills and interests...