Jason Deehan 🇵🇰🇲🇲🇩🇴🇰🇷🇰🇼
@mrdeehanclass.bsky.social
International educator: middle school social studies, belonging, growth mindset, student voice. Husband. Father. Author. Blogger: https://educationalexploits.com/
Help students build on-demand writing skills with these educator-created worksheets: https://edut.to/3X6N7u7
Resources for Teaching Interdisciplinary Writing in Middle School
Interdisciplinary prompts can help strengthen students’ writing skills while deepening their understanding of different subjects.
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"As teachers, we're surprisingly good at creating work for our future selves—and surprisingly bad at helping them," says educator and researcher Cathleen Beachboard. So why not give your future self a gift today?
"Just because we ask students to talk to each other doesn't mean they know how to do that in the most academic and responsible way." via @novakeducation.bsky.social www.novakeducation.com/blog/how-to-...
Beyond Turn & Talk: How to Teach Academic Discourse and Collaboration
Learn how to effectively teach academic discourse and collaboration in your classroom, ensuring students engage meaningfully and build essential skills.
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About 11% of U.S. children have been diagnosed with ADHD. For these students, unfinished assignments and difficulty staying on task may signal a need for executive function support: https://edut.to/4eUIVni
Supporting Students With Executive Function Challenges
A one-on-one intervention framework can help high school students with ADHD improve their executive function habits.
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TIL about The Kindness Mob! What a great way to promote online kindness! ##Edusky thekindnessmob.org
The Kindness Mob | Kindness for Everyone, Always
We flood social media with kindness every single day. Join the mob and make someone's day.
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It’s important for students to understand that metacognition is thinking about both what worked well and what they want to improve in the future.
A 4-Step Plan for Promoting Metacognition in Middle School
Thinking about how they think helps students develop an essential skill that supports their academic success and independence.
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One of the biggest changes I made is when I stopped thinking about giving assessment and started thinking about looking for evidence. Wild mindset shift for me.
Edutopia@edutopia.org · 3w agoIs it even *school* if there aren’t any graded tests? Short answer: Yes! In the latest episode of School of Practice, we talk with high school teacher Jodie Deinhammer about how she removed high-stakes tests while keeping her class rigorous. Listen and follow on Spotify or Apple Podcasts! 🎧
What kinds of praise not only make students feel good, but help them grow as well? Try these tips that turn compliments into progress:
Using Precise, Positive Praise in the Classroom
Explicitly acknowledging replicable behaviors is an effective way to encourage all students to meet expectations.
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Hey, do you have any students who enjoy guessing flags? They might enjoy this challenge: FlagRush — name every flag before the clock catches you · Flaglio share.google/x9d1qm2gnvXy... #edusky
FlagRush — name every flag before the clock catches you · Flaglio
Match countries to their flags, with less time each round. One wrong answer ends the run. How many of the 243 flags can you get right?
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We’ve been hearing the same request again and again: make our special education resources easier to find. So we did: https://edut.to/4rZgD0x
Essential Resources for Special Education
We’ve gathered advice for teachers on managing student accommodations, navigating IEPs, and much more, as well as ideas for administrators on how to support teachers in this work.
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I’ll walk you through five specific structures you can choose from to plan solid, interesting instruction for an extended class period, the kind of teaching that will make those 90 minutes fly by. www.cultofpedagogy.com/block-schedu...
Making the Most of a 90-Minute Class | Cult of Pedagogy
Whether you're brand-new to block scheduling or you've been doing it for years, these strategies will have you handling those 90 minutes like a boss.
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Always a pleasure to get to hop on the mic with @edutopia for another School of Practice episode. This one is all about some tricks I’ve learned that have helped me with my classroom management. www.edutopia.org/podcast/9-si...
Podcast: 9 Simple (But Transformative) Classroom Management Shifts
From a quick crouch to three surprising magic words, ELA teacher Tyler Rablin shares his favorite zero-prep moves that can turn a chaotic classroom into a calm one.
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@wordsimagesworlds.bsky.social shares his ideas to support students' reading engagement and deepen literary analysis:
Creatively Pairing Texts to Support Students’ Engagement With Reading
High school teachers can focus on specific themes that connect works in different genres to create an engaging reading experience.
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In her first story with Edutopia, fourth-grade teacher Anjalee Beverly shares four strategies for reflecting on what worked well and why: https://edut.to/4dKWmpq
The Missing Question in Teacher Reflection: What Went Right?
These reflection strategies can help teachers shift from self-criticism to recognizing their growth and building on what’s already working.
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Explaining and demonstrating how a task should be done can still leave students confused. 🛠️ 2nd-grade teacher Donna Paul shares advice on how to turn directions into skills to master: https://edut.to/4hGFMs4
Ensuring That Students Know How to Meet Your Expectations
To help students master classroom routines, it can help to think of them as skills that students need time to develop.
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"Middle school provides a perfect opportunity to incorporate interdisciplinary lessons across content areas to bolster foundational skills." Michele Haiken via @middleweb.bsky.social www.middleweb.com/54174/joinin...
Blending ELA and Science Inquiry to Explore Climate Change
An interdisciplinary unit blends science inquiry and ELA skill sets to help middle schoolers make sense of the news about extreme weather and climate change.
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"I realized my students didn’t need more activities—they needed more opportunities to practice the same decoding skills in a focused, connected way." Jess Dalrymple via @edutopia.org www.edutopia.org/article/15-m...
A 15-Minute Small Group Routine That Builds Stronger Decoding Skills
This simple, time-saving structure targets one phonics pattern at a time until students master it.
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Teachers say important things while students are still talking. No one is waiting for complete and utter quiet. And our audience is missing stuff. www.cultofpedagogy.com/5-second-sol...
A 5-Second Solution for a Talkative Class | Cult of Pedagogy
When I observe teachers, I see this problem more than anything else. If they fixed it, they would notice an instant difference in how well their classes go.
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How do you build student agency in the classroom? Drop into our Jam Session anytime now through Wednesday, September 23 to ask your questions. Our panelists @tobyfischer.bsky.social, Susan Yergler, Shannon Engelbrecht, and the Edutopia team will be responding in the comments all week!
September 2026 Jam Session: How to Build Student Agency in the Classroom
Student agency and self-reliance don’t just happen—they’re built over time through intentional practice. One powerful shift is moving from “my classroom” to “our classroom,” creating more opportunitie...
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How can we make feedback stick for students? Try English teacher Megan Vosk's 4 strategies.
4 Ways to Help Students Engage With Feedback
Middle and high school students benefit from having time to review and reflect on feedback on their formative assessment performance.
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Differentiation can feel impossible to sustain. In the final post of our Back to Basics series, I offer a more doable approach: the “something is better than nothing” method. If you’ve thrown in the towel on differentiation, this is a way back in. www.cultofpedagogy.com/realistic-di...
A Realistic Approach to Differentiation | Cult of Pedagogy
Back to Basics, Part 4: Now that the lessons are in place, we'll build in differentiation using a process that will keep things from getting overwhelming.
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You teach your heart out. Really just knock it out of the park. Then you ask a question students should know the answer to … and nothing. What's going on? Guest post by @blakeharvard.bsky.social www.cultofpedagogy.com/stare/
Why Students Give You the Blank Stare, and What to Do About It | Cult of Pedagogy
You teach your heart out. Really just knock it out of the park. Then you ask a question students should know the answer to … and nothing. What's going on?
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Try out teacher @cathleenbeachbd.bsky.social's One Word Wall! "I asked each student to choose one word they hope people will use to describe them someday... Throughout the semester, I’ll collect evidence whenever I see them becoming that person." Read more about her idea: https://edut.to/46uZ2mY
"Instead of waiting until she is finished, then marking up all the errors and giving it a grade, I would read parts of the essay while she is writing it..." Moving from Feedback to Feedforward cultofpedagogy.com/feedforward/ via @cultofpedagogy #Feedback #EduSky
