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Edutopia blogger Elana Aguilar explains that facilitating professional development for teachers means understanding and knowing the science behind adult learning.

Guided by research, educators at Cochrane Collegiate have homed in on ten top teaching methods, and teachers receive weekly PD to help them implement the practices.

Teachers celebrating accomplishments as summer approaches.

Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL) defines four key practices for sustained student achievement. 

English and social studies teacher Nicholas Provenzano uses The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution as a tool for classroom management.

From wikis to blogs to social media in the classroom, blogger and educator Lisa Dabbs shares twenty great ideas for new teachers. 

After Arizona's Mesquite Elementary School developed Reteach and Enrich, a program to provide additional instruction time for students struggling with math, test scores shot to the top and have stayed there ever since.

Edcamp impromptu! collaborate and share.

tudents do much of their work on erasable slate boards, which helps keep the school's copy budget low; former principal Connie Erickson has come up with multiple ways to save money, such as the tips shared below. Connie Erickson, founding principal of Mesquite, and current principal Katie Dabney have found that fiscal creativity is key in finding ways to "squeeze a little water out of the rock," as Erickson describes it.