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Use these strategies from Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12, to inform how you provide feedback to students in various situations.

Use this checklist from Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades K-5, to assess your young students’ early understanding of the concepts of print. 

Use this sample assessment from Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 6-12, to test students’ understanding of literary devices.

Use these think aloud sentence starters from Think Big with Think Alouds, Grades K-5, to guide students to deeper understanding and comprehension by thinking aloud. 

This lesson from Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes dives into the text structure of "I'm a Little Teapot" and guides students to write their own rhymes of similar structure.

This lesson from Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes dives into the text structure of "Jack Sprat" and guides students to write their own rhymes of similar structure. 

In this excerpt from Real Talk about Classroom Management, author Serena Pariser shares her secret to creating a purposeful seating chart based on students’ academic abilities, learning disabilities, language barriers, and more, rather than simply separating the students that “shouldn’t be together” and sprinkling the rest around, hoping for the best.

Use this lesson from Learning Challenge Lessons, Elementary, by Jill and James Nottingham to discuss the concept of exploration with students. Includes three activities to try with your students.

Try out these lessons from Challenging Mindset with your students. Each lesson is designed to engage your students in cognitive conflict about some of the important concepts connected with mindset: influence, self-efficacy, heritability, development, challenge, resilience, and talent.

This diagram of the Learning Pit from Challenging Mindset describes the effects of mindset at each step the learning challenge journey.

Use this tool from Chapter 1 of Challenging Mindset to learn more about the impact your mindset can have and the next steps toward change.

Watch this interview with Gravity Goldberg about her book, Teach Like Yourself, and why she is devoted to encouraging teachers to teach like themselves, rather than trying to emulate others.