Leadership preparation begins with early and meaningful opportunities for teachers to lead. The traditional span of control in schools with one principal supervising scores of teachers is outdated and no longer functional. Distributed...

Action steps that will build successful teams at the school level as well as implementation pitfalls and illustrative cases.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a boy named Andreas who is trying out for the basketball team. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about sports teams using Native American names. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.

Jigsaw is a strategy that emphasizes cooperative learning by providing students an opportunity to actively help each other build comprehension. Use this technique to assign students to reading groups composed of varying skill levels....

Simple machines are devices with few or no moving parts that make work easier, and which people have used to provide mechanical advantage for thousands of years. Students learn about the wedge, wheel and axle, lever, inclined plane,...

Students learn about traffic lights and their importance in maintaining public safety and order. Using a Parallax Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller, students work in teams on the engineering challenge to build a traffic light with a specific...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Sophie who went on a musical scavenger hunt with a team from her troop. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a soccer team that understands having fun is more important than winning. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Matthew and his experience at opening day with his favorite baseball team. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer about a professional baseball player named Casey who had a chance to win the game for his team. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...