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Benchmark Madness
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Expanded learning time schools can offer special events and enrichment programs to reward students for spending extra time in the classroom during the school year, weekend, and summer. The...
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Assessing an After-School Reading Activity
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Watch an interview with the director of an after-school program about tailoring instruction to students' needs. Program staff group students by English proficiency level and ability level. To learn...
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Lessons Learned From a Districtwide Evaluation
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Watch a video with an after-school program director describing the use of program data. The school district used the results to guide program improvement and design. To learn more about the data...
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A Rewards System to Promote Attendance
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A school principal describes efforts to increase attendance in an after-school program by providing supports and incentives. Refer to the sample materials, Attendance Record Forms, Quarterly Parent...
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Encouraging Participation Through Communication
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Parents describe communications with school staff about an after-school program. Having a point of contact during school and after-school hours increased their buy-in and participation in the...
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Skill Building in a Positive Learning Environment
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Watch an intervention specialist describe planning for effective instruction in an after-school program. The curriculum in this program focuses on individualized instruction to strengthen student...
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Questioning in a Socratic Seminar
Organize Your Teaching > Higher-Order Questions > See How It Works
Watch how this fourth-grade teacher uses a line of questioning in a structured, text-based discussion to help students recognize important elements and themes in a piece of art. Related...
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Essential Questions: A Schoolwide Approach
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Administrators at one school describe how they support the use of higher-order questions through professional development that focuses on curriculum planning and effective instructional...
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Instructional Strategies at a District Level
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In this video interview, a district curriculum director shares lessons learned about successfully implementing instructional strategies, like the use of higher-order questions, across many schools...
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Response Groups: Eliciting Explanations in History
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History teacher Matt Moorman describes how he uses higher-order questions to engage students in critical thinking about important historical concepts and to help students to internalize the...
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In Front of the Class: Students' Whiteboard Explanations
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A physics teacher describes how he organizes whiteboard presentations to give his students an authentic forum for explaining their problem solving and answering higher-order questions. Related...
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Opportunities for Student Explanations
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In this video students share the culminating project of a curriculum unit: museum exhibits designed to answer "essential questions." Students practice giving explanations that demonstrate their...
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