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5 Top Tips to Ensure Active Learning by Your Students
To prepare students for this modern world, we must shift away from passive, "sit-and-get" instruction and focus on cultivating active learne
Bill Reed
Feb 103 min read
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Revamping Your Curriculum Maps: How to Align with High Quality Curricular Materials
Are you adopting new High Quality Curricular Materials? Are you struggling to determine how to revamp your curriculum maps to align to these
Dianne McKinley
Jun 11, 20241 min read
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7 Ideas for Relentless Book Matching
Knowing the power of good “read” motivates educators and their continuous efforts to book match relentlessly. Teachers everywhere know...
April Connelley
Feb 29, 20243 min read
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Why Morphology Instruction Is Important
Language is a complex system of intricate connections between words and meanings. It is complex code used to communicate. Morphology is...
April Connelley
Jan 8, 20242 min read
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The 411 on the SAT Assessment: Now Part of an Indiana H.S. Graduation Pathway
It is extremely important for Administrators, Teachers, Parents and especially Students to understand exactly what the SAT Assessment is...
Bill Reed
Apr 12, 20235 min read
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SAT: Process and Literacy Standards for Science
Many people think the two most important subjects on the SAT Assessment are English and Mathematics. That is NOT a true statement. The...
Bill Reed
Dec 9, 20229 min read
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The 411 on the SAT AssessmentEvidence-Based Reading and Writing Section – Writing and Language Test
The ability to read, write, understand, and use language properly to edit and correct passages are the important aspects of the Writing...
Bill Reed
Jan 13, 202214 min read
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The 411 on the IN SAT AssessmentEvidence-Based Reading and Writing Section – The Reading Test
The ability to read for understanding, information, comprehension, and context are the important aspects of the Reading Test in the...
Bill Reed
Jan 13, 20227 min read
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The 411 on the SAT AssessmentThe Math Section – Calculator and No Calculator
It is extremely important for Administrators, Teachers, Parents and especially Students to understand exactly what the SAT Assessment is...
Bill Reed
Jan 11, 20225 min read
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Things People Say About Math
Once in a great while, I hear someone say, “I Love Math!” or “I enjoyed my math classes,” and it gives me a warm, comforting feeling...
Bill Reed
Jan 1, 20224 min read
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Indiana Math Textbook Adoption
Back in 2011, Indiana Public Law 73-2011 altered state and local textbook adoption procedures. Under this law, Indiana no longer follows...
Bill Reed
Nov 15, 20214 min read
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Have Your Students Trained You?
My guess is if I ask teachers who have taught for more than one year, they can name a student they know who will come to class without...
Bill Reed
Nov 1, 20216 min read
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How to Differentiate Instruction
Differentiation is a term that all teachers know. We read about it in books, hear about it in training, and see it on our evaluation...
INcompassing Education Team Member
Nov 4, 20204 min read
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5 Tips on How to Improve Student Achievement
Improving student achievement is one of the main goals of all teachers. Student achievement measures the academic content a student...
INcompassing Education Team Member
Nov 4, 20203 min read
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What Is Rigor?
Rigor has been advancing in educational circuits, but many educators are still not familiar with the concept and how to support it within...
INcompassing Education Team Member
Nov 4, 20203 min read
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Lesson Planning – How to Create an Effective Lesson Plan
A lesson plan is a teacher’s guide for running a specific lesson. It includes the goal (what students are supposed to learn), the method...
INcompassing Education Team Member
Nov 4, 20203 min read
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Why Does the US Use Standardized Testing?
In this post, we will answer the question, “Why does the United States use standardized testing?”
INcompassing Education Team Member
Apr 8, 20194 min read
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7 Ways to Integrate Social Studies and Science into Your Reading Block
In order to become lifelong learners who understand scientific, historical, and social issues, students must be able to read the works of...
INcompassing Education Team Member
Apr 29, 20183 min read
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10 Ways to Increase Students’ Love of Reading
As teachers, we’re always searching for ways to encourage students to love reading. We cannot emphasize enough the benefits one can get...
INcompassing Education Team Member
Apr 16, 20183 min read
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7 Best Practices in Elementary Math Instruction
The objectives of math instruction are to help students understand the material, apply the skills, and recall the concepts in the future....
INcompassing Education Team Member
Mar 20, 20183 min read
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