…file a message, you can use the search tools to quickly locate them. See the links below for directions. Microsoft Outlook: Manage email message by using rules. Create a Search…
Fine-Tune Your Communication With Online Reference Materials
…also links to a reverse search tool and an ASL dictionary for children. Cambridge Dictionary: This site offers a dictionary, a thesaurus, translation and grammar help, and more. Dictionary.com: Here,…
Minecraft Hour of Code: AI for Good
…Create coding solutions that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals. Decompose (break down) the steps needed to solve a problem into a precise sequence of instructions. Iterate on solutions to…
#306 – Universal Design for Learning, with Dr. Sam Johnston
…the more we use the guidelines to bring in more perspectives—to bring in more ways of being, and doing, and thinking, and acting, and more identities—the more we’re going to…
#132 – The Power of Empowering Students, Part II, with Dr. John Spencer
…This might include building in a flexible timeline or offering the chance to resubmit revised work. High Expectations: Providing slack does not mean lowering standards. Dr. Spencer says, “High expectations…
#164 – Igniting the Fire: Inspiring Students and Educators, with Kevin Honeycutt
…it so junior high kids could feel smart reading it.” The book can be downloaded for free from his website. Encouraging Students to Write: Just as Kevin wrote his story,…
#282 – Educator Voices: Artificial Intelligence, Part II
…High School, Perris Union High School District, CA: While admitting that some people focus on the negative aspects of AI, like cheating, Donna likes to focus on its potential. She…
Utilize Breakout Rooms
…available and free online. This could be as simple as a YouTube timer embedded in a Google slide, a timer on a group member’s phone, the Google timer (just search…
#323 – AVID Open Access for Professional Learning New!
…even templates and graphic organizers that you can grab for free and use right away in your lessons. While you can definitely search the site for topics that are important…
Develop Global Collaborators: Connect Your Students to Classrooms Around the World
…educators from 6,500 schools in 160 countries. You can search the database of over 650 projects to connect your classroom with other students to work collaboratively on real-world, problem-solving projects….
Wrap Authentic Project-Based Learning in Inquiry
…do a field study, and search for information online. To learn more about how to support students with each of these skills, check out our AVID Open Access article, Search…
#326 – Game-Based Learning and Immersive Game Development, with Heather Healy New!
…these spaces are like as well as the advantages they can bring to our students and classrooms. Heather and her team at Super League are collaborating with AVID to bring…
Facilitate Virtual Music Performance and Response
…of how to play an instrument. These can be used to augment classroom instruction, or they can be used to empower students to teach themselves. Guitar Chordbook.com Access videos to…
#212 – Educator Voices: Student Success Through Engagement, Empowerment, and AVID
…that was a ‘D’ rating school. We’re a high-diverse population and a high-title poverty school, and it has changed us. We’re now one point away from being an ‘A’ school….
#304 – The News Literacy Project, with Brittney Smith
…K–12 schools, and she describes the many free resources available for educators from the News Literacy Project. Read a transcript of this episode. Brittney Smith Senior Manager of Education Partnerships…