In this English Journal article, Bardine et al. apply research on teacher commenting practices (e.g., appearance comments vs. function comments) to the experiences of student writers in the secondary English classroom. They offer suggestions about how to use comments and response to writing more effectively to support student learning in the classroom.

This task asks students to analyze a set of data from a physical context, choose a model that reasonably fits the data, and use the model to answer questions about the physical context.

This task asks students to analyze a set of data from a physical context, choose a model that reasonably fits the data, and use the model to answer questions about the physical context.

This task involves a fairly straightforward decaying exponential. Filling out the table and developing the general formula is complicated only by the need to work with a fraction that requires decisions about rounding and precision.

This task presents a simple but mathematically interesting game whose solution is a challenging exercise in creating and reasoning with algebraic inequalities. The core of the task involves converting a verbal statement into a mathematical inequality in a context in which the inequality is not obviously presented, and then repeatedly using the inequality to deduce information about the structure of the game.

The purpose of this task is to introduce radian measure for angles in a situation where it arises naturally.

This video is a short overview of what fluency with text is, why it's important, and a few tips on how to teach it.

This video is a short overview of what phonics is, why it's important, and a few tips on how to teach it.

This website provides class discussion strategies grouped by higher-prep, low-prep, and ongoing strategies.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention site for bloodborne infectious diseases: HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B & C.

This task examines linear models for the boiling point of water as a function of elevation. Two sets of data are provided and each is modeled quite well by a linear function.

This concise and reader-friendly resources offers a rationale for book clubs as well as easy-to-use supplemental materials that can help teachers implement the approaches described in their own classrooms.

The purpose of this task is to give students experience working with simple exponential models in situations where they must evaluate and interpret them at non-integer inputs.

This website includes text, images, and video instruction in the principles of backwards design. The material provides an overview of these principles as well as different stages to help teachers work through in their plans and templates they can use.

Open Middle provides math problems that have a closed beginning, a closed end, and an open middle. This means that there are multiple ways to approach and ultimately solve the problems. Open middle problems generally require a higher Depth of Knowledge than most problems that assess procedural and conceptual understanding.

This student interactive, from Illuminations, allows students to create a customized box plot as well as display pre-set box plots.

Menu of health topics by BrainPop, includes videos and lessons on hygiene, oral health, and safety.

The purpose of this task is to give an application arising from a real-world situation in which a quadratic equation arises, and where it is natural to use a graphical method to find an approximate solution and the quadratic formula to find an exact solution