Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This brief examines the Freshmen Success (FS) intervention model's impact on ninth-grade student engagement, attendance, credits earned, and GPA. The study found significant improvements in motivation, engagement, attendance, and credits earned, but no significant effect on GPA. Read more »
Classroomscreen is a free browser-based display board offering several widgets for classroom management and engagement tools. These tools are perfect for brain breaks, gamification, and student regulation. Read more »
Focus group sessions collect data by observing naturalistic behavior and moderating conversations within a group setting. This qualitative method offers valuable insight for a needs assessment or pilot testing in the early stages of product or process development. Focus groups can also be used to evaluate... Read more »
Created by: Keiana Cross
Date Updated: February 3rd, 2025
This is the final session in a series of professional learning activities that support a group book study. In this final session, participants summarize their learning, reflect on key insights, and create a plan to put their new knowledge into action. Read more »
Created by: Keiana Cross
Date Updated: August 9th, 2024
Use this strategy to help students connect to text in a personally meaningful way. Prompt a chatbot—like ChatGPT, MagicSchool AI, Claude, or other LLMs—to generate text that sparks curiosity, caters to the interests or cultures of students, and even includes student choice by asking students to help... Read more »
Created by: Keiana Cross
February 21st, 2024
This strategy encourages students to critically examine text written by artificial intelligence (AI). Teachers first use AI to generate a short story, essay, lab report, script, or other text, then students evaluate the text practicing analysis skills and giving peer feedback. This allows teachers to... Read more »
Created by: Keiana Cross
January 29th, 2024
Choose from a wide range of templates to create a meme, or upload an image to design your own. This tool is free and does not require an account. Read more »
Students summarize the main idea, or the “gist,” of content in a clear and concise manner. As students engage with content, they consider the who, what, when, where, why, and how of class content. They write a gist statement summarizing the content in 28 words or fewer. Read more »
Created by: Keiana Cross
October 10th, 2023
Edia generates math problems for students in middle and high school. Choose from a huge library of questions for all math subjects. Read more »
Keep digital sticky notes with Google's note-taking tool. This tool is available as both a mobile app and as an online resource. A Google account is required to use Keep. Read more »
