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If you want to generate teams and groups randomly (and quickly), you can't go wrong with this easy-to-use tool. Copy & paste the names of your students in one box, choose team names (optional), the number of teams you want to generate, choose your output format (HTML or Excel format), and click Generate Teams! If you don't like the teams, click Generate Teams! again. Very simple to use. And fast!

A mathematical focus, but also great commentary on teacher hesitancy regarding math. Reform is NOT about "high-energy teachers [giving] vague tasks to groups of interested students."

Wonder if there are parallel implications in math?

There are actually! Come by my office and check out the book: Whistling Vivaldi by Claude Steele who's work these studies are based on. There are also really interesting results that pertain to race and stereotype threat which can inform our teaching practices to cater to students most impacted...

When Greg Sumlin looks at the incoming kindergarten class at East Elementary School in Littleton, he sees a group of English learners who need immediate, intensive instruction - in small classes where teachers can give them individual attention.

MIAMI — In a distressed neighborhood north of Miami's gleaming downtown, a group of enthusiastic but inexperienced instructors from Teach for America is trying to make progress where more veteran teachers have had difficulty: raising students' reading and math scores.

The PlayLab Team is made up of a great group of individuals who are passionate about education and the PlayLab approach to learning; our team consists of our Founder & CEO, our Board of Advisors, our Curriculum Contributors, our Operational Staff, and our Facilitators.

Educators weigh in on the question of whether homework is a worthy exercise for students.

Really good 20 minute introduction on E-Portfolio. Examples and clarification of this important work. Using E-Portfolios in secondary school as a way to have a student track his or her progress.

Add other resources in this group for e-portfolios. I think this is an interesting and exciting area of growth in classroom practice. More authentic forms of assessment.

This site, created by the Department of Educational Technology in Palm Beach County is an amazing resource if you have any thoughts about integrating iPads.

Over the past five years — at the request of concerned independent school educators, and with funding from independent schools and a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health — we've conducted extensive research on the experiences of African-American students in independent schools.

Last year's report and conversation around the need for affinity group dialogue with the administrative team included statistics and plenty of personal and national stories pointing to the importance of addressing race/culture and learning, particularly as it relates to a discussion around whiteness and the culture of "niceness" within our schools. This article is 8 years old and not much has changed at many schools. Thanks for reading it! Please pass along to your team colleagues if you can?

Why is the change in this area so slow?