Scaffolding Like a Pro: Powerful Ways to Support Learning

With options ranging from tried-and-true to lesser known, these strategies for cognitive, metacognitive, and procedural scaffolding will help you set students up for success.

This simple (and tasty!) strategy can help middle school principals get to know their students and create a welcoming school community.

Upper elementary teachers can use these ideas to create meaningful, interdisciplinary STEM opportunities that encourage experimentation.

From interactive calculators to skill-building games, these digital tools can help make math more accessible and engaging for students.

Black History Month is an opportunity to augment traditional written documents with visual, sonic, dramatic, and multimedia texts.

Teachers can use the five-stage approach of design thinking to boost students’ engagement, motivation, and comprehension.

Districts can avoid common pitfalls in ed tech adoption by asking these critical questions before spending big money.

Professional learning communities and lesson rehearsals are effective ways to help teachers feel confident and prepared in the classroom.

Whether teachers know or simply suspect that they have an autistic student, these ideas support learning for them and the whole class.

When used well, tech tools can reveal where students are struggling, highlight their progress, and challenge and inspire them to improve.