The Unpacking Education team recounts the themes that stand out from this past year in education and anticipates the topics and trends they feel will be important in the year to come.

All AVID Open Access Classroom Resources
#145 – Q and A Tools
Review four digital question-and-answer tools and six ideas for integrating these tools into your classroom.
#144 – The 12 Months of Podcasts: Greatest Hits of 2022
The Unpacking Education team counts down 12 of their favorite memories from this past year of podcast episodes.
#143 – Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship
Betty Gessesse from Amazon shares an overview of the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and program.
#141 – Fun Holiday Brain Breaks
Explore four digital tools and strategies that you can use to provide your students with holiday-related brain breaks.
Ed Tip: Activities to Reconnect Students Before and After a Break
Use these resources to reinforce classroom community and inject some fun into the days before and after breaks from school.
#139 – Sharing Holiday Traditions
Explore ways to celebrate and honor the holiday traditions of all your students by empowering them to share their stories.
#138 – Beginning and Sustaining a Career in Education, with Kathy Koszegi
Listen to the experience of Kathy Koszegi, a new teacher, and discover ways to both support and retain promising new teachers.
#137 – Ways to Capture and Annotate Digital Images
Explore several ways to capture and annotate digital images as well as two ideas for integrating this process into your classroom.
Ed Tip: Coding for Kids
Use these resources to introduce your students to computer coding and problem-solving skills.
New “Basic Skills” Computational Thinking Unplugged
Students will explore and practice the four key computational thinking skills and connect those skills to their future-ready toolbox.
Coding C.H.O.M.P.
This lesson introduces students to coding while connecting cause–effect thinking with prior knowledge about healthy food choices.
Smartphones & Your Carbon Footprint
In this lesson, students will digitally explore the environmental impact generated through the manufacture and use of cell phones across the world, make personal connections to the learning, and develop a plan to reduce their own carbon footprint.
Let’s Clean!
Students will use design thinking and computational thinking to complete the task of cleaning a room.
#136 – Computer Science Education Week and the Importance of Computational Thinking, with Kiki Prottsman
Kiki Prottsman unpacks computational thinking and practical ways that teachers can recognize Computer Science Education Week with their students.