Promising Practices

Effective Methods, Techniques, & Activities

Connecting Kids and Soldiers
Invite students to write letters and send "care packages" to soldiers abroad.
Use Editorial Cartoons to Teach About Elections
Harness the allure of cartoons to teach about elections and civic engagement.
Reviving Reviews
Revive those often-deadly skill reviews with a game or two.
Line-Up Review
A veteran reading teacher describes a review strategy that is fast paced, involves engagement with a large number of classmates, and prompts students to verbalize their learning.

Promising practices in education are those methods, techniques, and activities that help educators be more effective.

C.A.R.E. Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gaps - A multi-themed approach to closing the achievement gaps, focusing on Culture, Abilities, Resilience, and Effort (C.A.R.E.).
Research Spotlight on Best Practices in Education - NEA reviews of the best pedagogical practices.

Best Evidence Encyclopedia
Evidence on proven programs. From Johns Hopkins University School of Education
Assisting Students Struggling with Reading
Practice guide for educators using interventions with primary students.
Professional Learning in the Learning Profession
U.S. and abroad.
Center on Instruction
Reading, math, science, special education, and ELL.