5 Websites/Apps That Teachers Love Right Now!

5 Websites/Apps That Teachers Love Right Now!

  Trying to Flip your Classroom? Looking to have students reflect upon their learning? Want to assess student learning or document it using a digital portfolio? Try these easy-to-use websites…
Find Your Voice

Find Your Voice

  I always felt like had something to say, something worth sharing.   But I never knew what it was.   It took me about 10 years into my teaching…
The Student Experience

The Student Experience

  What is your students’ experience like?   What’s it like? Do they like your class? Love your class? Do they talk? Do they work with friends? Is it a…
The Work Students Should Be Doing

The Work Students Should Be Doing

This is a project that one of our students completed at home. Earlier in the year, she took advantage of a four day weekend and made this vending machine out…
A Thousand No’s

A Thousand No’s

  Sometimes it's a simple no.  Sometimes it's a not right now or maybe later.    Sometimes it's much worse like... Why would you want to do that? Or That's…
5 Ways to Ring in the New Year!

5 Ways to Ring in the New Year!

  Happy New Year! 2018 is the perfect time to make some radical improvements in your classroom. Start off your return to the classroom by implementing some of these changes.…
Inherent Value

Inherent Value

  If a student is interested in learning something, there's inherently a value in that.  So many times we dismiss what a student wants to learn because we consider it…
The Dominant Voice

The Dominant Voice

  Is there a dominant voice in your classroom? Is it yours? Does it belong to a student? Or a group of students?   Are you the dominant voice? Do…
Learners vs. Finishers

Learners vs. Finishers

  Last week, I was visiting a classroom which has this poster hanging on the wall: When I went into the classroom, students were about to engage in their first…