This 13-page article presents eight aspects to consider when creating a classroom culture that supports problem solving. The article identifies each of the eight aspects and then goes into more detail suggesting activities that can be done in the classroom to promote more student discourse and problem solving. Throughout the article are links to supportive math activities, research articles and professional development activities.

Students collaboratively interact with a variety of texts as they define reading and develop their own Reader's Profiles modeled after online social networking sites.

Should you tell your kids they are smart or talented? Professor Carol Dweck answers this question and more, as she talks about her groundbreaking work on developing mindsets. She emphasizes the power of "yet" in helping students succeed in and out of the classroom.

Using the guiding question, "What is reading?" students interact with a variety of texts as they uncover the skills necessary to interact with texts and develop a definition of reading.

It's not easy to keep faucets flowing year-round in southwest Florida. To make sure their customers can get ample clean water at a good price—even through dry seasons—water utility managers crafted a useful index to help them decide which water sources to use.

Learning to code teaches you how to solve problems and work with others in creative ways. And it helps you bring your ideas to life.
Swift Coding Clubs are an excellent way to learn to code and design apps. Activities built around Swift, Apple’s coding language, help you collaborate as you learn to code, prototype apps, and think about how code can make a difference in the world around you.
You don’t have to be an educator or a programmer to run a Swift Coding Club. The materials are self-paced, so you can even learn alongside your club members. And you can all celebrate your club’s ideas and designs with an app showcase event for your community.

The DDNJ publishes high-quality research and evaluation about the multiple systems that serve individuals with disabilities and their families. Central to these systems is the “Developmental Disabilities Network,” a group of federally designated programs in each U.S. state and territory, that provide advocacy, training, research, and service focused on the unique needs of people with disabilities and their families. This journal specifically highlights programs, practices, and policies that encourage the full inclusion of people with disabilities in communities and all aspects of public life.

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This lesson compares rational number and orders them from least to greatest using the number line. [Developmental Math playlist: Lesson 132 of 196]

This lesson demonstrates how to compare whole numbers. [Developmental Math playlist: Lesson 7 of 196]

This course introduces students to the writing process as a means of developing ideas into clear, correct, and effective writing.

The DREME Network was created in 2014 to advance the field of early mathematics research and improve young children’s opportunities to develop math skills. The Network focuses on math from birth through age eight years, with an emphasis on the preschool years. Network members and affiliates collaborate to conduct basic and applied research and develop innovative tools that address high-priority early math topics and inform and motivate other researchers, educators, policymakers and the public.

This website was created by the Utah State Board of Education and includes information regarding development of instructional coaches.

This article helps educators answer questions about geometric thinking and the activities that develop it. It outlines the 3 levels of thinking about shape and space and the 5 phases of activities known as the van Hiele model. The tangram puzzle provides a vehicle for describing these phases and the types of thinking students achieve in each one. The article concludes with a suggestion about followup activity.

The author presents detailed lessons for engaging students in contrastive analysis and exploring code-switching in words by Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Harper Lee, and others.

Students practice data collection by gathering data within the classroom on common causes of allergies. They examine and interpret data charts on national trends in allergies.

This problem demonstrates the power of the 100 square (Hundred Chart) in helping children to recognize number properties and in beginning to reason carefully and form conjectures. Students look at sums of numbers located in a certain configuration within squares of the grid. There is a link to a printable hundred chart.

Students compare the traits fact and fiction by using a Venn diagram to compare fiction and nonfiction books about Native Americans.

An expert describes the carbon composition of diamonds, as well as the conditions necessary for diamond formation in this video segment from Nature.