Promoting Active Engagement in Middle School

A teacher shares her strategies for creating a culture and routines that foster students’ sense of involvement in the classroom.

Assistant editor Daniel Leonard shares how teachers are turning to Diffit to automatically adapt texts to different reading levels.

Elementary teachers can use sentence stems to promote phonemic awareness, knowledge of vocabulary, and reading fluency and comprehension.

Instead of having students compete for external rewards, fostering cooperation boosts intrinsic motivation and ensures that all voices are heard.

CASEL has a free tool that can help school leaders sift through the many social and emotional learning programs to select a good fit for their school.

Teachers can adapt activities to make PE inclusive for all students, including those with physical and/or learning disabilities.

These strategies for developing secondary students’ math skills, including estimation, can benefit them in class and the real world.

By combining direct instruction and an inquiry-based approach, teachers can improve accessibility and create more ‘aha!’ moments.

Using these techniques together helps teachers support all students and foster a sense of belonging.

Mitchel Resnick—creator of Scratch and OctoStudio—shares how teachers can maximize students’ use of tech for creative purposes.