As teachers, we are well aware that one size does not fit all in education. We know the value of differentiation and personalized learning plans. We want to meet students…
Help Students Connect and Reconnect
Many of our students have not been in a large physical group of people for over a year. Returning to a brick-and-mortar classroom will likely be awkward for both students…
Accelerate Learning With Meaningful, Targeted Assessment
If you are practicing archery in a completely dark room with no orientation to the target, you will have virtually no chance of hitting a bull’s-eye. In fact, you probably…
#57 – The Role of Assessment in Accelerating Learning
This year, you may know less about what happened in the previous school year. As you start to build relationships with students, it’s important to ask questions about what they…
Accelerate Learning by Prioritizing Outcomes and Providing Just-in-Time Support
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted the education system for over a year. This has led to concerns about unfinished learning and poor academic performance. As we move into a…
#56 – Empower Students to Accelerate Learning
At the start of an academic year, we know that our students will return to us after the summer break with some gaps in their learning. The approach that we…
Accelerate Learning by Designing for Personalization
In many ways, schools today resemble the schools of the mid-nineteenth century. Those schools were designed to be efficient, standardized, and capable of producing a labor force needed to work…
#55 – Connecting Students and Building Classroom Community
In last week’s podcast episode, we talked about leveraging what we learned from a year of teaching remotely to reimagine education moving forward with our special guest, Danielle Reyes. This…
#54 – Leveraging What We Have Learned This Past School Year to Reimagine Education Moving Forward
As we start to return to full-time, in-person teaching, we wanted to take a moment to process the experiences of COVID on us and our students. We have begun to…
What Changes in Fall?
AVID and National Geographic are partnering for the 2021–2022 school year to develop critical reading lessons. This partnership will allow AVID to provide highly engaging and rigorous content through disciplinary…
#53 – Managing Academic Transitions After a Disruptive Year of Learning
In the third part of our Managing Transitions series to help prepare you for heading back to school, we explore how we talk about the psychological and situational changes that…
#52 – Managing Transitions: Addressing Social and Emotional Learning for Students
As you plan and organize your back-to-school preparations, we wanted to explore the role of transitions with this three-part series that examines how social and emotional learning can help you…
Reprogram Unconscious Bias in Computing
Have you ever been shopping on Amazon and noticed that ads were popping up from something you just said you needed? Weird…or was it just Artificial Intelligence (AI) gathering information…
#67 – Remembering Your Why
In preparation for Thanksgiving, we reached out on social media and asked teachers two questions: Why did you get into education? What is your current “why” that keeps you going…
Connect With Families
Over the last few years, school was brought into the home and the home was brought into school in a way that was unprecedented. Boundaries have blurred, and educators and…