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:

Model and Scaffold Constructive Conversations [FREE GUIDE] is from DistillED. I’m adding it to The Best Ideas On Peer Review Of Student Writing.

15 Quick (and Mighty) Retrieval Practices is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Retrieval Practice.

Your Students Struggled on an Assessment—Now What? is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Differentiating Instruction.

Before You Decorate Your Classroom, Here’s a Better Idea appeared in Cult of Pedagogy. I’m adding it to SOME OF THE BEST RESOURCES ON SUPPORTING & VALUING STUDENTS’ IDENTITIES.

I’m adding this post to The Best World Poetry Day Resources – Help Me Find More:

This year one of our class projects was to “visualize” a poem we had read (🙏 @thevogelman.bsky.social) and this was, of course, the example I provided:

#PoemADayJuly

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— Marcus Luther (@marcusluther.bsky.social) July 31, 2025 at 7:21 AM

A teacher facing a jammed copier three minutes before class begins

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) August 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM