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Sustaining Success Despite Budget Cuts
How a resource-strapped elementary school became a top-performing school with a homegrown, easy-to-implement differentiated instruction program. How a resource-strapped elementary school became a...
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Five Strategies to Ensure Student Learning
After Arizona's Mesquite Elementary School developed Reteach and Enrich, a program to provide additional instruction time for students struggling with math, test scores shot to the top and have stayed...
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Resources and Downloads for Differentiated Instruction
Educators from Mesquite Elementary School, in Tucson, Arizona, have provided these resources for you to use in your own school. Educators from Mesquite Elementary School, in Tucson, Arizona, have...
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RSS The Vail School District in southern Arizona developed a wiki for teachers to share lesson plans and resources. Today, the wiki is a smash hit, and textbooks are a thing of the past. RSS publish...
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RSS Budget cuts — you can’t get around them, but you can find ways to reduce the pain. Here's how to teach lean, make supplies last, and not shortchange your kids. RSS publish date: 2011-11-11...
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RSS See step-by-step how this Arizona elementary school gives its students the additional time they need to master core concepts and elevate their learning to the next level. RSS publish date:...
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RSS Mix teacher collaboration and innovative leadership with a big dose of differentiated instruction and you get Mesquite Elementary’s winning recipe. RSS publish date: 2011-10-07 08Publish to RSS...
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RSS By focusing tightly on instructional strategies and PD, educators at Cochrane Academy saved their school from closure. In just three years, they have doubled student performance, and they continue...
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Resources and Downloads to Improve Student Performance
Educators from Cochrane Collegiate Academy in Charlotte, North Carolina, have provided these samples and resources for you to use in your school. Educators from Cochrane Collegiate Academy in...
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Ten Tips for Engaging Underperforming Students
Guided by research, educators at Cochrane Collegiate have homed in on ten top teaching methods, and teachers receive weekly PD to help them implement the practices. Watch the video. Guided by...
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Teacher Excellence Narrows the Achievement Gap
By embracing research-backed instructional design, consistent PD, and strong, caring relationships, all boats are rising and teachers have gone from surviving to thriving at this once-failing middle...
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How Principals Can Grow Teacher Excellence
At Cochrane Collegiate Academy, teachers credit their principal with helping them continually improve their practice through effective PD, ongoing support, and mutual trust. At Cochrane Collegiate...
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RSS Once the eighth lowest-performing middle school in the state, Cochrane Collegiate reversed course and is swiftly raising student achievement by investing in research-based teaching strategies,...
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RSS Surrounded by poverty and escalating violence, a San Francisco middle school committed to peace and embraced a program of meditation that has made students feel safer and teachers more productive....
View ArticlePromising Research on Meditation in Schools
Researchers have found multiple positive outcomes for students who meditate. Researchers have found multiple positive outcomes for students who meditate. Published to RSS 2012-03-12 12 No Special...
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How To Start a Meditation Program in Your School
Training, consistency, and trust are keys to successfully implementing a school meditation program. Training, consistency, and trust are keys to successfully implementing a meditation program in...
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Resources & Downloads for Meditation in Schools
Educators from Visitacion Valley Middle School, in San Francisco, have provided these resources for you to use in your school. Educators from Visitacion Valley Middle School, in San Francisco, have...
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A Bold Approach to Reducing Student Stress
With levels of violence and poverty rising around them, San Francisco middle school students find social and emotional healing -- and a new readiness to learn -- in a bold program of daily meditation....
View ArticleHow Financial Literacy Yields Success
Ariel Community Academy, in Chicago, uses a number of strategies that research has shown to be effective, including teaching financial literacy and helping students develop their own point of view....
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Resources and Lesson Plans for Financial Literacy
Educators from Ariel Community Academy, in Chicago, have provided lesson plans and Web resources to help you get started. Educators from Ariel Community Academy, in Chicago, have provided lesson plans...
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