Data-driven instruction can dramatically improve student achievement. By engaging in consistent and thoughtful analysis of student data, you can gather valuable insights into the strengths and struggles of your students, and determine how to best differentiate your instruction.

Get started with one of our favorite protocols, What, So What, Now What to help jumpstart your inquiry process.

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Parent-teacher conferences are just around the corner, and it's a valuable time for schools to reflect on promising practices and processes for communicating with parents. Research shows that parent engagement can have a significant impact on student achievement.

To support your efforts, we invite you to download our Real Talk resource, which is designed to help you identify what might be preventing communication with parents, and offers specific steps educators can take to improve & increase parent engagement.

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Disruptive students can often cause more problems for teachers than disrespectful or defiant students. Disruptions throw the lesson off track, influence other students, and can leave teachers feeling helpless in their own classrooms. How do you deal with their behavior? Try out our Three Sweeps resource to help address disruptive behaviors in productive ways.

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"Can I Get a Lifeline?" is a post-reading activity that invites students to identify meaningful passages in a text and and justify their choices.  It encourages students to make their thinking visible, and helps them learn how to select the most important information while reading. 

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Our guide to teaching in today's political climate offers an understanding of how politics manifest in classrooms, as well as possible protocols for teachers to implement. Learn how to provide space for discussion, establish norms, and reflect before lessons. 

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Often in schools, students are burdened by different pressures that can impact their social and emotional health. As educators, our job is to help students succeed academically, while also nurturing their social and emotional health - two tasks that can often come into conflict with one another. This graphic organizer and examples on this document are intended to help you think of ways to effectively educate your students while caring for their social and emotional health by identifying what pressures impact students and how teachers and schools can respond to these pressures.

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How many teachers regularly communicate with parents? According to one study, not enough. Research found that, despite an increase in email communications from schools to parents from 2002 to 2012, the number of parents​ ​receiving​ ​a​ ​school​ ​iniaited​ ​phone​ ​call​ ​decreased​ ​from​ ​2002​ ​to​ ​2012​,​ ​as​ ​did​ ​parent satification​ ​with​ ​parent-school​ ​staff​ ​interactions​.

How can you increase your communication with parents? Download our free resource to identify what might be preventing communication, and specific steps you can take to get back on track. 

Diversify your classroom management techniques and utilize the wide range of methods that can trigger positive reactions from students - just download our list of 25 non-confrontational classroom management techniques.

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Disruptive students can cause more problems for teachers than disrespectful or defiant students. Disruptions throw the lesson off track, influence other students, and often leave teachers feeling helpless in their own classrooms. How do you deal with them? Try using our 3 Sweeps resource to help address these behaviors in productive ways.

Check out our other resources here!

Scoring is the process of evaluating student work using a rubric.  These are crucial practices to ensure that teachers’ and students’ evaluations are valid, reliable, and consistent.  To support your school community in the norming and scoring process, The Center for the Professional Education of Teachers has created the SNAP Protocol to align your scoring practices with your school community.  Click here to download!