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My Greatest Teaching Problem Was Feedback. Here’s How Research Helped Me Solve It.

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I implemented writing reflections to help students recall their feedback from prior assignments and collaborated with a colleague to develop a teacher guided peer review system, which eventually yielded an app called Floop that made the peer review data visible and simpler to manage.

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SpringMath by Sourcewell Receives Highest Possible Ratings from National Center on Intensive Intervention

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We have expanded the number of grades for which we have offered evidence, including middle school, and we now have the highest rated kindergarten screening tool! Funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), NCII is comprised of national content and methodological experts who review assessments and interventions.

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Creative Approaches for Developing Essay Writing Skills

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Collaborative Writing and Peer Review The adage “two heads are better than one” holds true in the realm of writing, as collaborative efforts and peer review can yield invaluable insights and constructive feedback.

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To Leverage Tech in Writing Instruction, This Superintendent Channeled Justin Bieber

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But it really kicks in during middle school. What we find in our middle schools is that students are starting to develop their own voices as writers,” Cotton says. We provide training so they all have a good sense of how to evaluate writing and provide feedback to students.” And useful feedback is crucial.

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The Censored and the Curious: Using Banned Books to Foster Connections and Critical Thinking in Freshmen

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All students participated in one debate, but when their team was not presenting, the non-debating students took notes—tracing the argument and evaluating the strength of the evidence and refutations, then using those notes to discuss and judge who won the debate. The topics of the debate were student-generated.