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Q&A: What Our Online Teachers Have to Say About Remote Learning

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9 Remote Learning Resources & Ideas to Use During the Coronavirus Outbreak

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How Writing Supports the C3 Framework

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Q&A with New Mexico Principal Pam Schritter

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Important: Addressing Issues with the New Writing Lesson Design

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7 Factors You Can Use to Measure the Effectiveness of Writing Instruction

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Q&A with Georgia Teacher Lakendra Swanson

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7 Strategies for Administrators to Support Writing Across the Curriculum

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Introducing a Redesigned ThinkCERCA for Students

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8 Minutes with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Principal Mark Bosco

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Fostering Innovation and Collaboration on a Budget

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How Teachers Across the Country are Using ThinkCERCA

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Q&A with Charlotte, N.C. Teacher Patrick Ames

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Advanced Literacies and the 4 Hallmarks

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Q&A with Cincinnati Teacher Michael Armstrong

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Q&A with Arizona Teacher Mark Boen

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Q&A with ThinkCERCA Teacher Rebeca Garza

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Q&A with ThinkCERCA Teacher Liz Kenney

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Q&A with ThinkCERCA Teacher Tiffany Walston

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Meet Kolani Fowler, the Newest School Success Manager

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ThinkCERCA's 2018 Year in Review

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6 Things Every Education Leader Should Know About Equity

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Q&A with Washington Teacher Ryan Custodio

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Q&A with Chicago Teacher Megan Macellaio

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Q&A with Dr. Jennifer Winward, Educator and Entrepreneur

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Bridging the Critical Thinking Skills Gap with Writing

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Q&A with Veteran ThinkCERCA Teacher Ann Whitehair

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We're Sunsetting Our Free Offering. Here's Why.

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We've Refreshed Part of the ThinkCERCA Curriculum

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8 Questions to Consider when Looking for Teacher Professional Development Options

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How Bibb County Designed their Literacy Plan to Align with the Redesigned CCRPI

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Introducing the New ThinkCERCA

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Meeting the Redesigned CCRPI Indicators

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Q&A with the Lead Teacher at One of Our Top-Performing Partner Schools

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Our Favorite Videos Showing How Teachers Use ThinkCERCA

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Quality Review: 3 Ways New York Principals Can Empower Their Team

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5 Questions to Spur Critical Thinking in the Classroom

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Examples of Critical Thinking in Everyday Life

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Why Writing in Math and Science Matters

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Using ThinkCERCA to Impact the Instructional Core on the Quality Review

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5 Tips from Educators on Giving Effective Feedback

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What Instructional Leaders Must Do to Be Successful with ThinkCERCA

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Product Update: Print Class and Grade Usage Reports

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How to Support Long-Term English Learners Across the Curriculum

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12 Ideas for Improving NWEA Scores at the School and Classroom Level

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Personalized Learning Strategies that Make a Difference

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How to Set Ambitious Goals with OKRs

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Why Personalized Learning Is Important

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Personalized, Blended Learning: How to Make It Work

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What Is Personalized Learning?

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5 Reasons to Focus on Being 10 Percent Better and Grateful Every Week

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How to Teach Entrepreneurship to Students

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Teacher Perspective: How I Teach Critical Thinking

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Writing Across the Curriculum Checklist

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VIDEO: What Does "Critical Thinking" Mean to You?

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13 Narrative Writing Prompts About Family

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Product Update: Favoriting Lessons

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9 Writing Prompts to Prepare Students for the College Admissions Essay

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Product Update: Better Highlighting, Navigation, and Scrolling Experiences for Tablet Users

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3 Activities to Help Students Make Sense of the News

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Product Update: Interactive Skills & Concepts Instruction

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The Best Test Prep? It's Great Instruction Every Day

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Building Trust With New Students

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How Are Your Users Responding to the Learning Environment You Have Designed?

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Transform Your School with Google’s Approach to Decision-Making

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Using CHAMPS to Influence Classroom Behavior

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Making Thematic Connections Between Literature and Current Events

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From Mesopotamian Civilization to the Classification of Organisms, Here are Two New CERCA Sets

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Improve Your School’s Approach to Cross-Curricular Collaboration

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3 Ways Instructional Leaders Can Champion Technology in the Classroom

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Project Planning Using MOCHA

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Make Your Senior Team Smarter with Annual "Teach-ins"

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Creating a Culture Where Rigor is the Norm

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9 Movie Trailer Writing Prompts

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Product Update: New Lesson Details Page and Assignment Workflow

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Using the Fogg Behavior Model to Drive Change in Your School

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Cultivating a Growth-Mindset Culture Throughout Your School or District

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Building Community Between Teachers and Admins

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10 Tech Tools Every Administrator Needs

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What Does Differentiation Look Like for Teachers?

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How to Help Teachers Differentiate in the Classroom Effectively

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Product Update: Grade Level and Classroom Usage Reporting for Admins

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Why Students Need to Learn to Write Online to Be Successful

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These Were the Most-Assigned Lessons in the 2016-17 School Year

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Making the Most of ThinkCERCA's Standards-Aligned Rubrics

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Why a Shared Calendar Makes All the Difference for Your Team

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Making Time for Cross-Curricular Collaboration

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The 2017 CERCA Slam Winners

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Stories from the Classroom: Incorporating ThinkCERCA into Special Education Curriculum

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Media Bias: What It Is and How to Spot It

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Why Differentiation is the Most Effective SAT Prep

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VIDEO: Student Voice and Choice at Work in Chicago's Ashburn Elementary

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Break Out of ‘Sit-and-Get’ PD with These Hands-On Workshop Tips

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The Teachers Who Made a Difference

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What Effective Professional Development Looks Like

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62 Differentiated Poetry Lessons for Elementary, Middle, and High School Students

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Why CERCA is a More Rigorous Writing Framework than RACE

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Blended Literacy Scorecard: How can you strengthen your school or district’s approach to personalized literacy?

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Why Teachers and Administrators Should Take Time for Themselves

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5 Non-Education Newsletters Every Educator Should Read

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9 Questions You Should Ask Before Planning a Blended Adventure

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Test or No Test: Skills That Matter

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How to Teach Informative or Explanatory Writing

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Step-by-Step Guide: Planning an Argument Unit

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How to Teach Narrative Writing

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Infographic: 8 Ways to Build Your Students' Argumentation Skills

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The Best Productivity Tools to Make Your School More Efficient (and Fun)

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Using the Start–Stop–Continue Framework to Optimize Classroom Strategies

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How to Teach Argumentative Writing

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Announcing the 2017 Social Impact Challenge Winners

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The Power of Adaptive Learning Spaces in Schools

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Immigration Lessons for Elementary, Middle, and High School Students

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Real News and Sponsored Articles: Distinguish them with this Checklist

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Beyond the Performance Review

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The Power of Repeat Actions and Traditions

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Product Update: New ELA Teaching Resources

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How Students Can Use Argumentation to Evaluate Super Bowl Predictions

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How Art on Walls Can Make a Difference in Schools

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10 Football Argumentative Writing Prompts

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Why Writing Opens Doors for Students

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When Articles Link to Evidence, How do We Know the Evidence is Accurate?

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Differentiated Lessons on Martin Luther King, Jr. for Grades 9-12

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Differentiated Lessons on Martin Luther King, Jr. for Grades 6-8

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Differentiated Lessons on Martin Luther King, Jr. for Grades 3-5

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Designing Classrooms that Promote Rapid Teacher Feedback

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Free and Easy Storytelling Tools for Educators to Leverage

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Dear Mr. President

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Discover Individual Strengths to Optimize Your Team

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Activity: Improve Your School’s Decision-Making with the Marshmallow Challenge

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Helping Students Think Critically in a Post-Truth World

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Improve Collaboration (and Save Time) with a Stand-up Meeting

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We Added a 4-Point Rubric to ThinkCERCA

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Using Math to Tackle One of the World's Biggest Challenges

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Organizing Schools for Success: 5 Levers for Improvement

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Improve Student Outcomes with a Time-on-Task Chart

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How Selling Milkshakes Can Help Us Select Better Ed-Tech Products

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5 Principles for Approaching School Improvement Like an Entrepreneur

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ThinkCERCA Named K-12 Pedagogy Winner at “Oscars of Education”

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6 Things Any Teacher Can Do to Help Close the Achievement Gap

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New Math Literacy Lessons on Systems and Structure

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Product Update: Mid-Year Assessments Are Here!

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College and Career Pay Off in New Math Literacy Lessons

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Infographic: 7 Conversational Strategies for Developing Bilinguals

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ThinkCERCA Wins NewSchools Ignite ELL Challenge

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How Getting My Class to Talk More Made a World of a Difference for a Bilingual Student

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Transform Your Math Class with New Geometry Lessons

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#CERCAtheVote: Nate Silver’s Election Predictions

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115 Lessons for Teaching 2016 Election Issues in Any Classroom

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New Math Literacy Lessons: Patterns in Integers

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Educator Spotlight: Caroline Schmitt of Fayette County Schools

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#CERCAtheVote: Clinton Defends Family Foundation Against “Pay to Play”

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Crack the Code of Math Literacy with Our New Ciphers Lessons

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#CERCAtheVote: Trump Claims Election Is 'Rigged'

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#CERCAtheVote: Michelle Obama Says Trump Comments Can't Be Ignored

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The Best Policy? Teaching Literacy in Math!

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#CERCAtheVote: Does the Chicago Tribune Make an Effective Argument in its Endorsement of Gary Johnson for President?

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New Math Lessons to Connect with Tonight's Debate and More

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#CERCAtheVote: Who Makes a Stronger Accusation on Aiding Terrorism – Trump or Clinton?

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Prepare for Assessments with Great Instruction Every Day

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Kick Off Your Math Class with New Sports Statistics Lessons

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Back to School with a New Math Lesson Set!

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Building Knowledge and Skills in a Meaningful Sequence

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This Toilet Paper Icebreaker is Perfect for the First Day of Class

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Product Update: New Lesson Names

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Product Update: A New Back-to-School Look for the Lesson Library

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5 Tips for Curating a Tech Culture in the Classroom

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Product Update: New Benchmark Assessments

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Infographic: Setting Expectations for Successful Blended Learning Structures

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A Bingo Chart for Adventurous Reading

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Infographic: How Teachers do Summer Reading

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How ThinkCERCA Helps Teachers Support a Growth Mindset

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ThinkCERCA's Year in Review

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ThinkCERCA Wins NewSchools Ignite Math Challenge

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Prepare Your Students for Success on PSSA TDAs

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Stories from the Classroom: Aida Coullias of McIntosh High School

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Stories from the Classroom: Dylan Porter of Patrick Henry Elementary School

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And the 2016 CERCA Slam Winners Are ...

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Artful History Lessons about the Renaissance

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Revolutionary History Lessons about Thomas Paine

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New Leveled Science Lessons for Chemistry, Biology, and Engineering

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Our Evidence-Based Arguments for Why Teachers Are Awesome

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Shake, Rattle, and Roll! Leveled Lessons on Plate Tectonics

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Stories from the Classroom: Observations from Healy Elementary School

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Product Update: Downloadable Class Reports and Insights on Standards Performance

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Leveled Industrial Revolution Lessons: It's About Time!

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Product Update: End of Year Assessments

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The Incredible Lives Behind the New Faces of U.S. Currency

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Video: Bill Gates Highlights ThinkCERCA as Innovative Literacy Tool at ASU GSV

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New Leveled U.S. History Lessons: Westward Expansion and Great Depression

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Go Green with ThinkCERCA: Differentiated Literacy Lessons for Earth Day

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On 400th Anniversary, Analyzing Shakespeare Through the CERCA Lens

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Product Update: "CERCA Starter" Is Now "Progress Monitoring"!

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Find Your Way to Math Success with "Geometry of Maps" Lessons

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Celebrate National Poetry Month with New Sonnets Lessons

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New Differentiated Social Studies Literacy Lesson Sets

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Build Your Students' Math Literacy Skills: Geometry in Architecture

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Evolve Your Students' Critical Thinking Skills with New Science Literacy Lessons

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Women’s History Month: Resources for Your Classroom

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New Narrative Writing Lessons and Spanish-Language Lessons

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Report Shows ThinkCERCA Demonstrates Gains Equal to One Year of Growth

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