Featured Strategy

Classroom Strategy: Power Notes

Power Notes is a strategy that teaches students an efficient form of organizing information from assigned text. This technique provides students a systematic way to look for relationships within material they are reading. Power Notes help visually display the differences between main ideas and supportive information in outline form.
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Featured Resource

Get Your Back-to-School Routine Going: Picture Schedules and Visual Planners

Kids who have trouble with organization may have an easier time visualizing their day with the help of picture schedules and visual planners. Print these examples developed by our partner, Understood.org (a site for parents of children with learning and attention issues).
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Featured Glossary Term

Free-writes

A writing exercise used for brainstorming and to develop writing fluency. Students write non-stop for five to ten minutes, expressing their ideas go without concern for revision, editing, or controlling the words.
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School Matters:
A blog by Karin Chenoweth

New Assessments Provide Less, Not More, Information

I continue my quest to find out how expert educators are viewing the new assessments their students are taking. Today, I report on Artesia High School, where students recently took the Smarter Balanced assessment for the second time
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Research & News

How Schools Can Get Homeless High Schoolers to College

Homeless students may not be aware of the resources, like college application fee waivers, that are available.
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Caution Flags for Tech in Classrooms

Several recent studies looking at computers and online learning found mixed-to-negative results. And they offer clues about how schools and tech companies can do better.
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