This video is at Hangzhou Foreign Language School and training teachers from HFLS and Entel. The IEE team facilitated ways…
Instructional Strategies
Engage Me Strategy
Watch this video on a great strategy you can use in your classroom! “Engage Me” is a great way to…
Perfect Effort
Nobody expects you to play perfect, that’s impossible…but what we expect and you should expect from each other is a…
How to Use Data Walls Effectively
Teachers today are surrounded with data; formative, summative, demographic, behavioral, non-cognitive… the list goes on and on. At times, teachers…
5 Ways to Encourage Productive Struggle
“Telling my students the answer does not help them learn; in fact, it stops their learning”. (Carter 2008) Through countless…
Beat the Blahs by Increasing Student Engagement
As winter transitions to spring in Michigan, students might be losing motivation or struggling to stay focused with the promise…
A Balcony View of Reading, Part 4: Guided Reading – It’s Not Just for K-3 Anymore!
March is reading month! Throughout the month on the IEE Blog, Jamie Klebe (one of our awesome Targeted Learning Coaches!)…
A Balcony View of Reading, Part 3: Disciplinary Literacy – The What, Why, and How
March is reading month! Throughout the month on the IEE Blog, Jamie Klebe (one of our awesome Targeted Learning Coaches!)…
A Balcony View of Reading, Part 2: Three Essential Messages about Close and Critical Reading
March is reading month! Throughout the month on the IEE Blog, Jamie Klebe (one of our awesome Targeted Learning Coaches!)…
A Balcony View of Reading, Part 1: Debunking 3 Myths on Independent Reading in the Classroom
March is reading month! Yes, it is, and it is also the month heading into “Assessment Season.” In schools across…
Using Brain Research from the 1800s to Improve Today’s Classroom Instruction
Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850 – 1909) was a German psychologist who made groundbreaking contributions in the field of memory research. Two…
How to Encourage Student-Led Learning in Your Mathematics Classroom
I appreciated many of the points brought forth in a New York Times article I read earlier this year titled,…
