…organizations have made their resources free for students during this critical time, it is always important to be aware of how your data will be used. To Provide the Services…
Personalize Student Reading Practice With Microsoft Teams’ New Reading Progress Tool
Microsoft has released a free tool to help students develop their reading fluency. It is integrated into Teams and allows teachers to efficiently assign and manage personalized reading practice. The…
Survey With Polls
…This popular survey tool offers a free basic plan that includes unlimited surveys, up to 10 questions and 40 responses per survey. Google Forms: This is part of the G-Suite…
Build Classroom Community to Support Your Students’ Social and Emotional Needs
…a positive, trusting classroom community as early in the school year as possible. Whenever you can, include yourself in the activities, so you become a trusted member of the community,…
Revise With Resolve: Step 3 in Powering Up and Enhancing the Writing Process With Technology
…to reverse your latest keystrokes. If you decide that you liked your revision better, simply hit the forward “redo” arrow. Version History: Version history lets you review and recover ideas…
Graphic Organizers
…most experience. However, when school takes place in a virtual or hybrid environment, you may need to rethink some of your strategies. If possible, develop strategies and activities that can…
Discover the Power of Pairing Technology With Art Education
…digital art tools for free. This eliminates the cost of consumable materials (such as expensive paint, paper, and drawing supplies), thereby reducing barriers for students in poorly funded art classrooms….
Letter to Caring Adults of K-5 Children
…to read chapter books. Checking books out of libraries is not possible now, but both books are available for the Kindle Cloud Reader. Your local library may have free e-books,…
Care for Your Students During Self-Paced Virtual Learning
…come in many formats. They can be video introductions, class discussion posts, individual slides on a collaborative slideshow (Download PowerPoint Template), posts to a virtual bulletin board, partner interviews, and…
Ed Tip: Exit Tickets
Overview Exit tickets are quick formative assessment check-ins used to gauge student progress. They are a great way to bring closure to a lesson before students “exit” your classroom. You…
Back-to-School Teacher Technology Checklist
…sample assignments to ensure they know your system before needing to turn in something that is more high stakes. Taking time early on to rehearse and cement these practices will…
Meet Heather – An Inventor!
…be an inventor, too.” Imagine something that you could build with a cardboard box. Write and draw about it. My cardboard box is… ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Download PDF Worksheet Heather…
Accelerate Learning by Empowering Students
…this type of work, their potential will be capped at memorization and basic skill building. In order to truly accelerate learning, we must challenge students with rigorous, high-level learning experiences,…
#168 – AI, ChatGPT, and Education, with Angela Maiers
…and ideas with the computer, and here’s the cool part: in real time. In real time, you can regenerate it better and smarter, in a matter of milliseconds, and that…
Turn That Frown Upside Down
…worksheet Minds-on Computational thinking Creativity Problem-solving Let’s create images that will change based on the position of the Code Cube. Students can follow the sample code provided in the student…