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    Teaching to Thrive with Dr. Bettina Love
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    The Office of Teacher Development, in partnership with Dr. Bettina Love, proudly presents "Teaching to Thrive." These multi-modal professional learning tool kits provide resources for teachers to engage their students in creative, meaningful, and culturally responsive and sustaining blended and remote learning. Tool Kit One focuses on assisting tea...

    Remote Instruction: Pedagogical Supports for Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Practices
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    This collection contains a set of resources designed and curated to support teachers in engaging in remote instruction in culturally responsive and sustaining ways. They are intended to serve as guidance and not a central mandate. Schools should utilize these resources in ways that best serve the school community.   These resources are designed to...

    Mic check: Reviewing online resources with a critical lens
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    In this collection of resources, teachers and other educators will learn about four core principles for reviewing the wealth of free online materials available for use during distance learning. The Office of Teacher Development recognizes NYCDOE teachers are receiving an overabundance of online/distance learning resources right now and this collect...
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    Seven ways to perfect your writing tone

    Grades 9 - 12 English Language Arts

    Tips on how to detect and improve the tone in your writing. Shared by Writer's Digest.

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    Writing redux: Students hone their writing craft
    Grades 6 - 12
    English Language Arts
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    Guide students to develop voice in their writing, target their audience, write descriptive scenes, and improve their grammar with these resources, all designed to improve different aspects of student writing.  Please note that the files in this collection cannot be downloaded from WeTeachNYC because they link out to an external site.
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    Essay writing redux
    Grades 9 - 12
    English Language Arts
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    Explanations and student work samples of different kinds of essays. 

    Eight tips to bring your settings to life
    Grades 9 - 12
    English Language Arts
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    Tips for how to craft effective descriptions in your writing.  By Writing World.

    Picturing the personal essay: A visual guide
    Grades 9 - 12
    English Language Arts
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    Ideas on how to write an effective personal essay. By Tim Bason, shared on the Creative Nonfiction website. 

    A speech is not an essay
    Grades 9 - 12
    English Language Arts
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    An article about the differences between speeches and essays. By the Harvard Business Review.
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