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Arts
Connecting With the Arts: A Workshop for Middle Grades Teachers
Middle school teachers discover how to integrate the arts - dance and music - with core academic subjects in this video workshop.
The Art of Teaching the Arts: A Workshop for High School Teachers
Discover how the principles of good teaching are implemented in the visual and performing arts.
Connecting with the Arts: A Teaching Practices Library, 6-8
This video library features a variety of approaches to integrating the arts in middle school classrooms nationwide.
The Arts In Every Classroom: A Workshop for Elementary School Teachers
Discover some new ideas about working with the arts in this video workshop for K-5 classroom and arts specialist teachers.
The Arts In Every Classroom: A Video Library K-5
Explore different ways to introduce the arts into the classroom in this video library for K-5 classroom teachers and arts specialists.Education
K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, College/Adult
Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections
This video course for K-12 educators acquaints teachers with current neuroscience research that they can apply in their own classrooms.
Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum
A multidisciplinary resource for middle and high school teachers to use photographs and photographic ephemera to convey content and teach visual analysis skills.
Reading & Writing in the Disciplines
Learn research, practice, and tools for integrating discipline literacy into mathematics, science, English, and history/social studies content based lessons.English Language Arts
Inside Writing Communities, Grades 3-5
This video workshop for grade 3-5 teachers demonstrates how writing workshops motivate students and help them become proficient writers.
Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers
Learn effective practices and strategies to help students become confident and proficient writers.
Making Meaning in Literature: A Workshop for Teachers, Grades 6-8
Learn techniques for helping students become engaged and enthusiastic readers in this video workshop for middle school teachers.
Making Meaning in Literature: A Video Library, Grades 6-8
This video library for grade 6-8 language arts teachers shows teaching practices that support student interaction with literature.
Engaging With Literature: A Workshop for Teachers, Grades 3-5
This video workshop shows grade 3-5 teachers how to help students become effective and engaged readers of literature.
Engaging with Literature: A Video Library, Grades 3-5
In this video library, watch grades 3-5 teachers successfully guide students toward becoming more active readers of literature.
In Search of the Novel
Find strategies for introducing and teaching ten commonly taught novels - from Frankenstein to Harry Potter.
Conversations in Literature
Learn about "envisionment building" as a tool for literary interpretation with a community of expert readers.
Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum
A multidisciplinary resource for middle and high school teachers to use photographs and photographic ephemera to convey content and teach visual analysis skills.Mathematics
Insights Into Algebra 1: Teaching for Learning
This video workshop for middle and high school teachers presents strategies for improving how typical Algebra 1 topics are taught.
Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum
A multidisciplinary resource for middle and high school teachers to use photographs and photographic ephemera to convey content and teach visual analysis skills.
Learning Math: Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
Explore the big ideas in algebra - patterns, functions, and linearity - in this video- and Web-based course for K-8 teachers.
Learning Math: Number and Operations
This video- and web-based course for K-8 teachers examines three main categories in the Number and Operations strand of the math standards.
Learning Math: Measurement
Examine some of the major ideas in measurement and their practical applications in this video- and web-based course for K-8 teachers.
Learning Math: Geometry
Discover how geometric reasoning can be used as a method of problem solving in this video- and Web-based course for K-8 teachers.
Learning Math: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability
Practical examples highlight the basic concepts of data analysis and statistics in this video- and web-based course for K-8 math teachers.
Reading & Writing in the Disciplines
Learn research, practice, and tools for integrating discipline literacy into mathematics, science, English, and history/social studies content based lessons.Science
A Private Universe
Discover why even Ivy League graduates don't really grasp basic science concepts in this video documentary for grade 5-12 educators.
Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum
A multidisciplinary resource for middle and high school teachers to use photographs and photographic ephemera to convey content and teach visual analysis skills.
Reading & Writing in the Disciplines
Learn research, practice, and tools for integrating discipline literacy into mathematics, science, English, and history/social studies content based lessons.
Rediscovering Biology: Molecular to Global Perspectives
This video course explains recent advances in the field to teachers of high school biology.
The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science
What makes Earth unique among the planets? Explore the natural functions of Earth’s systems and Earth’s ability to sustain life.Social Studies & History
Democracy in America
A comprehensive video course for high school teachers on civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions based on an established civics framework.
Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum
A multidisciplinary resource for middle and high school teachers to use photographs and photographic ephemera to convey content and teach visual analysis skills.
Social Studies in Action: A Methodology Workshop, K-5
This video workshop for K-5 teachers provides a framework for teaching social studies, with a focus on creating effective citizens.
Social Studies in Action: A Teaching Practices Library, K-12
This video library for K-12 teachers shows a variety of effective social studies lessons and techniques for use with students at all levels.
Making Civics Real: A Workshop for Teachers
This video workshop illustrates an activist approach to the teaching of civics.
Reading & Writing in the Disciplines
Learn research, practice, and tools for integrating discipline literacy into mathematics, science, English, and history/social studies content based lessons.
American Passages: A Literary Survey
American literary movements and authors in the context of history and culture.World Languages
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: Workshop
This video workshop introduces middle school teachers to diverse American writers and presents dynamic instructional strategies.