Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here.
You can also see all my “Best” lists on instructional strategies here.
Here are this week’s picks:
I’ve previously posted Guest Post: “Walk & Talks” Are Extremely Effective Way To Connect With Students – Here’s A “How-To” Guide. It shares instructions from my former principal on a great strategy to connect to students. It builds on this research that was recently featured in a Washington Post article:
In an influential 2017 paper, Columbia University researchers wrote that “walking together can facilitate both the intra- and interpersonal pathways to conflict resolution,” because people who walk with one another typically start synchronizing their steps, without conscious effort on anyone’s part.
These newly coordinated walkers then wind up with “increased positive rapport, empathy, and prosociality,” the researchers wrote. “Walking partners naturally adopt cooperative (as opposed to competitive) postural stances, experience shared attention, and can benefit from discussions in novel environments.”
Me too! Here are some ideas if you want.
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— Adrian Neibauer (@mrneibauer.bsky.social) December 1, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Boosting Midyear Engagement With Place-Based PBL is from Edutopia.
Reimagining math instruction: Lessons from Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics is from Teach Learn Grow.
5 Ways to Encourage Deep Mathematical Thinking is from Edutopia.
Rethinking the KWL Chart + 8 ideas for working with conceptual organizers is from the University of Toronto. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The Importance Of Prior Knowledge (& How To Activate It).
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