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How can we create meaningful opportunities for students to find their voice through poetry, storytelling, and personal narratives?

Help! The tears are welling during class and I'm overwhelmed. I'm at a breaking point. What if I was mean to a student? Learn some emotional regulation tips from Berit Gordon's The New Teacher Handbook.

Why should you try hip-hop pedagogy? Hip-hop culture is youth culture. Learn how to develop funds of knowledge for deeper connection with students.

Today on the podcast, we're continuing the conversation between Dr. Edmund Adjapong and his mentor, Dr. Chris Emdin. Edmund’s new book is, Teach Like an MC: Hip-Hop Pedagogy in the K-12 Classroom.

We asked our authors about the most impactful female educator in their lives. Thank you to the most important women in our educational journey.

Children are models for how play and work cannot and should not be separated from one another.

Structured dialogue in the form of mock trials and sentence starters gives students a sense of predictability that eases time management.

How do we grow student engagement and be more responsive in our teaching practice?

Can you bot-proof your classroom? Likely not. Unpack the importance of embracing, not resisting, AI programs in the writing classroom. A 3-part series by Dennis Magliozzi and Kristina Peterson.

Prioritizing sleep is difficult for teachers and students alike. Learn how to model self care habits in this post from M. Colleen Cruz.

Saxon Reading Foundations primarily focuses on teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency while building children’s decoding skills.

What are the different types of play and when do they make sense? Learn from the authors of Purposeful Play about fantasy, rough-and-tumble, constructive, and games with rules.

How do instructional routines in the math classroom build mathematical thinking and reasoning?

Structured dialogue in the classroom centers listening, inquiry, deepens connections, and builds community. This is part one in a three-part series on the importance of dialogue in the classroom.

To Read Stuff You Have to Know Stuff is now available as an audiobook! Listen to the book in author Kelly Gallagher's own voice.

Happy Spring! From March 7-14, use code SPRING25 at checkout for 20% off plus free shipping on all Heinemann professional books. See post for details and suggested books!

Teach students how to handle the struggle and get unstuck with math problems in this minilesson.

Celebrate Women's History Month through exploring themes of rights movements traced across time.