As a way of capturing and sharing the incredible expertise and insights of educators, AVID Open Access has begun a project called #EducatorVoices.

All AVID Open Access Classroom Resources
#210 – Educator Voices: Strategies and Best Practices for Teaching and Learning
Educators share their favorite teaching and learning strategies and best practices.
#209 – Building Student Confidence
Review three strategies for helping students build confidence in your classroom.
Ed Tip: Building Tech Skills and Routines
Review benefits and strategies for incorporating tech skills and routines into your classroom.
Ed Tip: A Community-Building Experience
Learn how to use Google Forms or Microsoft Forms and Quizlet Live to coordinate a community-building experience for your classroom.
Balancing Act: Improving Educator Well-Being in a Stressful Landscape
Supporting our teachers’ mental health and job satisfaction is essential for an effective educational system.
#208 – Educator Voices: Relational Capacity
Educators share strategies and rationale for creating relational capacity in their classrooms and schools.
#207 – Save Time With AI Chatbots
Review three ways that educators can begin to use AI chatbots—like ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing Chat, and Google Bard—to help save time.
#206 – Possibility Panel: A Conversation with Recent Graduates
Educators and school leaders share strategies and insights for helping students pave the way to personal, academic, and career success.
#205 – Copyright
Review the basics of copyright and six ways that you might use content in your classroom.
Ed Tip: AI as a Lesson Planning Assistant
Consider prompts and follow-up questions that teachers can use when asking AI chatbots to help design a lesson.
Ed Tip: Copyright
Review considerations around copyright and fair use.
#204 – A Journey From the Humanities to STEM, with Dr. Michelle Magallanez
Dr. Michelle Magallanez, Head of Special Projects at AVID Center, talks about the importance of STEM and computer science and her personal journey to being an advocate for these fields.
#203 – ANSWERS Inquiry Process, Step 7: Share Your Learning
Review the final step of the ANSWERS Inquiry Process, which focuses on preparing students to effectively share their new learning with an audience.
#202 – A Life of Learning, with Paul Beckermann
Unpacking Education cohost Paul Beckermann shares some of the key things he’s learned throughout his career as an educator.