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1. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
   Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
2. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Close Reading of Literary Texts
   This guide provides strategies for choosing text that is appropriate for close reading and to plan for instruction.
3. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Socratic Seminars
   This strategy guide explains Socratic seminars and offers practical methods for applying the approach in your classroom to help students investigate multiple perspectives in a text.
4. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
   Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
5. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Strategy Guide
   Using the Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Technique
   In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and texts to allow for learning that meets the diverse needs of students but keeps student groups flexible.
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
   In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and classroom topics to encourage a high degree of classroom participation and assist students in developing a conceptual understanding of a topic through the use of the Think-Pair-Share technique.
   
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Using Word Walls to Develop and Maintain Academic Vocabulary
   In this guide, you will learn how to use Word Walls to support vocabulary development and retention.