Speak-Up to Increase Engagement As a teacher specializing in special education, I work closely with general education classes spanning from kindergarten to fourth grade. In addition to co-teaching, I provide targeted interventions for students with special needs and those...

Increasing student engagement with Deeper Learning tools Even though we teach very different subject areas (mathematics and health/physical education), we are experiencing the same types of behaviors from our middle school students.  In any classroom regardless of subject area, teachers...

Engaging students in discussions using speak up stems I chose my topic for my action research plan after noticing that my kindergarten students did not understand proper ways to discuss topics in the classroom.  Some of these issues include…...

Becoming Active Readers & Citing Evidence using Reading for MeaningAfter surveying teachers in our district, we found the most common problem across all grade levels & content areas is that students do not support their thinking with text evidence....

The Power of BecauseOver the course of the 2023-2024 school year, we have worked to assess what the success rate would be if we added the “because” tool within our language arts classrooms. The initial problem of practice was...