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The lilyPD blog turns research on effective teaching into strategies educators can use tomorrow. Each post pairs a classroom-ready idea — a routine, an activity, a scaffold — with the evidence behind it, trusting teachers to adapt it to their own students. Written by and for practitioners, it treats teaching as a craft worth studying together.
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4 Tools to Transform Your School’s PD Culture
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How Healthy Schools Protect People’s Capacity
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The Decisions Exhausting Every School
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Why Good Professional Learning Doesn’t Change Practice
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Before You Plan Your Next PD Day, Ask This
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Teaching Takeaway: The Benefits of Elaboration
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Nurturing New Teacher Growth All Year Long with lilyPD
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See It, Name It, Prove It: Making Primary Sources Click for Multilingual Learners
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We Asked. Teachers Answered. Here’s What They Say About lilyPD.
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5 Ways to Weave lilyPD into Your School’s PD Ecosystem
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Strategy Spotlight: Silent Round Tables
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A Reflection on Teaching the American Revolution at 250
Patriotism cannot be taught. What we can do is teach American history with fidelity and trust that, as students examine both the ideals expressed in our founding documents and the ways Americans have struggled to fulfill those ideals, they will develop a deeper appreciation for the nation’s enduring promises—and perhaps an even greater sense of responsibility for preserving and extending them.
If lilyPD Courses Were New York Times Bestsellers…
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Teaching Takeaway: Found Poems for Higher-Order Thinking
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3 Ways to Use lilyPD to Super-Charge Your Summer Learning
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Stop Rushing Past Artifacts: Why Slowing Down Changes Everything
Engaging with artifacts in the classroom can be used as a tool to move from surface‑level observations to deeper questions and reasoned interpretations, and it can be fun too!
Explore Word Gaps for an Instant Reading Comprehension Boost
A “word gap” is a word or phrase that a student doesn’t know (Beers and Probst, 2015). A word gap might represent a brand new word the student has never seen before or a word they can understand from context but can’t define. The Collect and Explore Word Gaps strategy asks students to bring together the word gaps they find in a text and then explore them. This strategy is about more than simply learning new language, though. Collecting and exploring not only these individual words but the patterns they form can also help readers understand the big ideas of a text.
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