As you plan and organize your back-to-school preparations, we wanted to explore the role of transitions with a three-part series that examines how social and emotional learning can help you…
Graphic Organizers
To make these templates easier to find, we’ve organized them into the categories below. Let us know if you have any questions or recommendations for future templates, and don’t forget…
Practice, Review, and Enrich Math Skills With Digital Tools
As teachers, we’re always looking for new ways to engage our students and have them practice skills and concepts. This is an area where interactive websites, computer programs, and online…
Find and Explore Resources to Help Plan Math Lessons
Researching and finding materials for your lesson plans can be a time-consuming process. To speed things up for you, we’ve curated some of the best resources available on the Web…
Calculate, Measure, and Compute With Virtual Math Tools and Manipulatives
Students discover so much by playing with new ideas and applying concepts with manipulatives. This exploration and application was once applied only to physical manipulatives; however, hundreds of virtual math…
Tech Integration Can Power Up Your Math Classroom
The integration of digital tools into your math classroom can offer many advantages. For students, this can mean increased personalization, better and more frequent feedback, and more engaging and authentic…
Ed Tip: Categorizing
Overview Categorizing new information is key to processing information, making sense of it, and creating structures for improved recall. Students can use this collection of versatile graphic organizers to process…
Ed Tip: Activity Builders
Overview Use these templates to create engaging reinforcement and practice activities for your students. The structure has been created for you, so all you need to do is add the…
#80 – Toxic Positivity
While many in education are struggling with the challenges of teaching during a pandemic, they may be met with toxic positivity that feels out of place in the midst of…
#79 – Design for Flexibility; Be Ready for Multiple Teaching Scenarios
As COVID surges through communities and schools face shutdowns, districts are often forced to consider unexpected or sudden changes in their educational delivery model. They might need to switch to…
STEM Career Connections
In this critical reading lesson, students analyze “Career Connections (Grades 6–8),” part of the AVID STEM Connections®, through a Double-Entry Journal to develop an understanding of STEM-related careers using the…
#77 – Recalibrating Normal
Nobody knows exactly what education will look like in the future. However, we can continue to grow and improve based on our past experiences. Two school years of pandemic learning…
#76 – Have Kids Changed as a Result of the Pandemic?
The short answer to the question posed in our episode title: Yes. We are all shaped by our experiences, and during the past two years, our students have experienced unique—and…
#75 – Supporting Teachers as They Prepare for the Second Half of the School Year
Many teachers have recently returned from a winter break that provided a much-appreciated reprieve from the daily stresses of teaching. As we begin the second half of the school year,…
#74 – How to Welcome Your Students Back From the Holidays
Every student needs a community of support to learn and thrive. In this podcast episode, we are joined by special guest, Cherie Spencer, a Social and Emotional Learning Coordinator from…