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May 15, 2013 During this online chat, Maddie Witter, author of Reading Without Limits, offered practical strategies teachers can begin using "on Monday" to improve reading skills and motivation for kids across ability and grade levels. She answered questions on how implementing a combination of choice, shared, and guided reading can better prepare students for independent reading tasks.
April 2, 2013 In this chat, Kelley King, the author of Writing the Playbook: A Practitioner's Guide to Creating a Boy-Friendly School, discussed the differences in the ways boys and girls learn and identify common school practices that have unintended negative outcomes for boys. She also answered your questions about closing gender gaps in academic achievement, with focused advice on professional development, relationship building, schoolwide planning, and instructional strategies.
March 29, 2013 Our guests in this chat addreseds the necessary steps to share education data between districts and states, and how to provide meaningful data to teachers to help them improve instruction.
March 6, 2013 In this chat, Kathy T. Glass, author of Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core Standards, discussed how to translate the new Reading/ELA standards into effective curriculum units. She discussed developing unit maps, differentiating instruction, making connections across units, and building common core-aligned lessons that are rigorous and relevant.
February 26, 2013 Social networking can now provide teachers with new access to experts, curricula, and model initiatives around the world. Instructional technology specialist Kyle Pace helped train educators to tap into social networking and find valuable resources they could not get otherwise.
January 29, 2013 - Education Week
  During this chat, our guests discussed their experiences implementing BYOD (bring-your-own-device) policies in schools, addressed BYOD's advantages and challenges, and walked through ways to ensure that the strategy does not put some students at a disadvantage.
January 11, 2013 - Teacher
  During this online chat, Dr. Thomas Armstrong explained a paradigm shift in which general and special educators focus on students' aptitudes, not their needs and difficulties, in order to effectively differentiate instruction. He answered questions about universal design for learning, the components of positive learning environments, and the strengths typically associated with particular disability categories.
December 21, 2012 - Education Week
  In this chat, the heads of two school counseling programs discussed the many ways counselors are integral to both social-emotional and academic learning. They answered questions on how schools can balance teaching students the three R's and "soft skills" such as grit, motivation, and self-regulation, which some experts claim are more critical to student achievement.
December 19, 2012 - Teacher
  In this chat, a teacher and school tech coordinator will take your questions on using iPads and other digital tablets for instruction and provide tips on maximizing their impact on student learning.
December 3, 2012 - Teacher
  In this live chat, Jim Knight, author of High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching, discussed the teaching practices that, after 10 years of working with instructional coaches, he's found make the greatest difference in student learning.
November 2, 2012 - Education Week
  The Common Core State Standards make dramatic changes in what it means to be literate in the digital age, drawing on emerging research on informational reading, text complexity and different reading styles in the disciplines. Our guests discussed what the research says about why these are important, and how teachers can ensure their students meet the new requirements.
October 26, 2012 - Teacher
  In this live chat, author Doug Lemov answered questions on why practice is critical for effective teaching and what steps educators can take to integrate it into their work. In doing so, he explored themes from his newest book, Practice Perfect, such as how to design successful practice sessions, the role of feedback, and ways to instill a culture of practice at your school.
October 12, 2012 - Education Week
  As more research and best practices emerge about blended learning, this approach to mix face-to-face instruction and online learning is evolving to incorporate a variety of different forms and strategies. Our guest discussed how blended learning has changed from its inception, what educators have learned throughout its evolution, and what factors create successful blended learning environments.
September 27, 2012 - Teacher
  In this free live chat, Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski, co-authors of the recently published The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide, discussed best practices and strategies for working with second-language students and answered your questions on specific issues and challenges in ELL instruction.
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