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High Leverage Practices in Special Education

Provided by the Council for Exceptional Children, this document provides educators with research-based practices that have been proven effective with...

PATTAN: Concrete-Representational-Abstract: Instructional Sequence for Mathematics

This short article provides an overview of the concrete-representational-abstract instructional sequence in mathematics along with suggestions for...

TeachingWorks: Leading a Discussion

TeachWorks, located at the University of Michigan, provides high-leverage practices for teachers that are based on research, and when implemented...

TeachingWorks: Eliciting and Interpreting Student Thinking

TeachWorks, located at the University of Michigan, provides high-leverage practices for teachers that are based on research, and when implemented...

NRICH: Creating a Low Threshold High Ceiling Classroom

An overview from NRICH Math, located at the University of Cambridge, of low threshold high ceiling math tasks and how they might look in a classroom....

Google Hacks: The Secrets They Don’t Want You to Know

This session is a part of the Encore LIVE workshop series, highlighting some of the best sessions from the 2022 Summer of Learning Conferences.Do you...

Neurodiversity Hub

These resources are for parents, teachers, and neurodiverse primary and secondary students. Through the passionate efforts of a great many...

Getting Started with Seesaw

This session is a part of the Encore LIVE workshop series, highlighting some of the best sessions from the 2022 Summer of Learning Conferences.Seesaw...

Teaching Digital Citizenship Using Multimedia

Whether you're using videos as instructional aids or your students are using them to support projects, it's important to know how to select videos...

Student Accountability and Engagement: Lower Elementary

When we empower students as conversationalists we invite them to the table to share their knowledge. Let's learn strategies that will guide students...

Guiding Instruction through Formative and Interim Data

Each classroom is full of individual students who have individual learning needs - and those needs change all the time! How can a teacher know how to...

Primarily Chromebooks in the K-2 Classroom

This session is a part of the Encore LIVE workshop series, highlighting some of the best sessions from the 2022 Summer of Learning Conferences.Learn...

Accelerate Learning Lesson Planning Template

Lesson planning template for educators to use when planning scaffolded lessons based on formative data and critical prerequisite skills.

Cook and McDonald's Language Complexity Rubric

This language complexity rubric was developed to help educators, test developers, and test reviewers understand and reduce the language complexity of...

NYSED Concrete-Representational-Abstract (CRA) Scaffolding Strategy Example-Grade 6

CRA is a three-part instructional strategy in which the teacher begins by modeling and thinking aloud with concrete objects (e.g., blocks, disks,...

NYSED Concrete-Representational-Abstract (CRA) Scaffolding Strategy Example-Grade 3

CRA is a three-part instructional strategy in which the teacher begins by modeling and thinking aloud with concrete objects (e.g., blocks, disks,...

NYSED RDW (Read, Draw, Write ) Scaffolding Example and Template

The RDW Template is a graphic organizer that can be used to support students who have difficulty organizing information and recalling multistep,...

NYSED Frayer Model Scaffolding Example & Template

The Frayer model is a graphic organizer that can be used in any lesson to help students understand any unfamiliar vocabulary, but is especially...

UDL Lesson Design Template

UDL Lesson Design Template provides a wealth of resources to help educators design lessons that address engagement, representations, and action and...

Accelerate Learning Unit Planning Template

Unit planning template for educators for accelerated learning including critical prerequisite skills, formative pre-assessments, and types of...