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Unlocking Student Potential: The Power of Rubrics in the Classroom

Imagine a classroom where students know exactly what’s expected of them, where grades are clear and consistent, and where learning feels focused and achievable. This is the power of rubrics in action.

Strategies are Only as Good as the Learning they Support

Teachers always tell us how much they love the strategies component of ALM and how using the strategies are an effective way to engage students with the content in their classrooms. Of course, we love hearing this. Engagement is important to learning. If students...

CUBES: Who is Doing the Thinking?

A search on the internet for “CUBES math strategy” yields about 36 million results. Seeing a bright, cheery, and colorful CUBES poster on display in mathematics classrooms is a typical occurrence. Elementary and middle school mathematics teachers who are familiar with...
From Teacher Monologue to Academic Dialogue: Engaging Students in Content Conversations

From Teacher Monologue to Academic Dialogue: Engaging Students in Content Conversations

Dialogic discussion makes speakers and listeners of everyone, opening up the possibility of co-constructed learning with teachers as facilitators. Beers and Probst, like most literacy experts, including the Collaborative for Teaching and Learning (CTL), advocate for less monologic and more dialogic interaction in classrooms, creating the type of authentic engagement that instills confidence in students by making them an integral part of the learning.

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