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Teaching a Generation That Questions Everything edsurge.com/news/2025-12-12-… via @EdSurge #Elevate

Teaching a Generation That Questions Everything

Instead of being defensive when a student asks “why are we learning this?”, let’s treat the question as a path to deeper engagement.

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What Parents Want Most From Schools: Clear, Honest Communication edweek.org/leadership/what-p… #Elevate

What Parents Want Most From Schools: Clear, Honest Communication

A survey of parents points to the importance of clear, detailed information from schools.

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How leaders can challenge their teams without being relentless smartbrief.com/original/how-… #Elevate

How leaders can challenge their teams without being relentless

Teams need to be challenged to do their best, but Tim Jackson writes that being relentless in pursuing goals can be demotivating.

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5 Leadership Trends That Could Shape 2026 via @forbes forbes.com/sites/sallypercy/… #Elevate

5 Leadership Trends That Could Shape 2026

From seeing strategy as every leader’s business to embracing the agentic AI workforce, these key themes may define the year ahead.

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How to Build a Reading Block: Two Teachers Share Their Approaches edweek.org/teaching-learning… #Elevate

How to Build a Reading Block: Two Teachers Share Their Approaches

Studies don't prescribe how best to knit together components of reading—leaving it up to teachers to devise.

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3 Simple Slide Tips That Deepen Learning—and Save Time edutopia.org/article/simple-… #Elevate

3 Simple Slide Tips That Deepen Learning—and Save Time

Whether you use Google Slides or something else, you can promote deep thinking during presentations by tweaking the slides you already have.

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Work Flexibility, Leader Stability Keys to High Teacher Morale edweek.org/teaching-learning… #Elevate

Work Flexibility, Leader Stability Keys to High Teacher Morale

Education Week and the Boston Globe partnered on an event exploring the "State of Teaching" project.

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Why most New Year’s resolutions fail—and what that says about leadership habits fastcompany.com/91453535/new… #Elevate

Why most New Year’s resolutions fail—and what that says about leadership habits

How to make change actually stick, according to science.

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Building a Classroom Culture That Lasts ascd.org/blogs/building-a-cl… via @ASCD #Elevate

Building a Classroom Culture That Lasts

These strategies can create routines and rituals that survive past the back-to-school honeymoon.

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Take note: Annotation can provide a powerful tool for reading, writing k12dive.com/news/take-note-a… via @K12DiveNews #Elevate

Take note: Annotation can provide a powerful tool for reading, writing

The practice can improve reading comprehension, analytical ability and communication skills, one researcher says.

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How to combat misinformation and disinformation in the classroom k12dive.com/news/how-to-comb… via @K12DiveNews #Elevate

How to combat misinformation and disinformation in the classroom

Socratic questioning is among strategies educators can use to prompt students to think critically and become more media-savvy, experts say.

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With Bees, Drones & Ancient Technology, New Mexico Schools Engage Students to Save Precious Water for the Next Generation @The74 the74million.org/article/wit… #Elevate

Ancient Aquifers & Drones: NM Kids Learn to Save Precious Water for the Future

This year, the Rio Grande ran dry in Albuquerque. The conservation techniques students are learning will be key to the region’s survival.

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Six Lessons Microschools Can Learn from the Charter Sector educationnext.org/six-lesson… #Elevate

Six Lessons Microschools Can Learn from the Charter Sector

Excitement over the new school model elicits memories of charters in their prime and a chance to reflect on what they got right and wrong

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When Human Behavior Stands in the Way of Adopting Strong New Curriculum @The74 the74million.org/article/whe… #Elevate

When Human Behavior Stands in the Way of Adopting Strong New Curriculum

Eliopoulos & Kebede: What districts can do to overcome status-quo bias and get teachers to open boxes of new materials & access new digital tools.

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How to see every student clearly in gifted education smartbrief.com/original/how-… #Elevate

How to see every student clearly in gifted education

The debate over gifted and talented programs misses a larger point: Schools can’t deliver the right challenge until they can see every learner’s potential with clarity and precision, writes Joni...

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How to Stop Hemorrhaging Teachers From the Profession edweek.org/leadership/opinio… #Elevate

How to Stop Hemorrhaging Teachers From the Profession (Opinion)

Even as some teachers seek other careers, school leaders can stem the flow.

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Why ‘Use Your People’ Is a Key Lesson for Principals edutopia.org/article/how-del… #Elevate

Why ‘Use Your People’ Is a Key Lesson for Principals

Principals often start out in the role trying to do everything themselves, but learning to delegate is a must—both for themselves and for their schools.

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Instructional coaches can use these time-smart coaching tools smartbrief.com/original/inst… #Elevate

Instructional coaches can use these time-smart coaching tools

Instructional coaches can deploy quick metrics when they're short on time, writes Donna Spangler.

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Improved test scores, fewer behavior referrals in C.R. schools because of new learning model thegazette.com/k/improved-te… #Elevate

Improved test scores, fewer behavior referrals in C.R. schools because of new learning model

CEDAR RAPIDS — Teachers in Cedar Rapids attribute a new learning model to their renewed joy in teaching, deeper student engagement and improved student behavior.

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Is That Grade Accurate? ascd.org/el/articles/is-that… via @ASCD #Elevate

Is That Grade Accurate?

Before recording a grade, teachers should ask whether it accurately captures what the student knows—and gather better evidence when it doesn’t.

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