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Join Us in Philadelphia
By attending ASCD's Annual Conference, you'll be joining educators from across the world who are revolutionizing learning and banding together to bring in a new era in education.
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Sign the Petition for a President's Council on the Whole Child
Only a couple of weeks are left to tell the White House that you stand with ASCD in making whole child education a national priority.
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What Is "Process" Praise and Why Should You Use It?
Here are some practical tips for praising effort, instead of talent, in your classroom.
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Blog Watch:
Excel for Educators
Instead of simply crunching numbers, use data visualization to tell your story with help from this expert how-to blog.
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Supporting Preservice Teachers
The learning trajectory from college education student to classroom teacher is pretty compressed. Inevitably, much about education must be learned on the job. But can universities better prepare future teachers? If so, how? What strategies can preservice education students (or beginning teachers) use to help them cope with the stress of their first assignments?
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For Each to Excel
 This month, Educational Leadership looks at how educators create classrooms that key into student similarities, honor their differences, and build strong learning foundations from both.
ASCD Express complements the Educational Leadership with practical advice on setting clear learning targets that are accessible to all students, leveraging data, and setting rigorous standards for online courses.
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Test Deconstruction
Find out why a middle school science teacher ditched pre-tests and now has students deconstruct test questions.
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Unpacking the Language of Standards for ELLs
Students benefit from clearly stated learning objectives. All students, especially English language learners, benefit when teachers parse both the content and the language understanding needed to perform a standard.
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Three "Look-Fors" for Rigorous Online Courses
Online courses can be a means to meeting students' needs beyond traditional time, space, and resource limitations—but they must be designed with these three objectives in mind.
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Teaching to the Individual Learner
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Using Math Progressions to Scale the Algebra Wall
 Learn how the new Common Core State Standards use natural curricular progressions to build a ramp from kindergarten math to algebraic equations.
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My Back Pages:
The Cult of Individualized Instruction (1977)
Students no doubt have interests, but spending a lot of time and effort trying to identify different interests and adopt programs to suit them is of dubious usefulness, opines this author.
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Empathy, Personalization, and High Standards
 High school social studies teacher Rich McKinney left instructional spoon-feeding behind after he learned how students could use empathy to more deeply connect with and understand the lives of those they read about.
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