May the Fourth has Star Wars, and it looks like September 25 is quickly becoming Dolly’s day. The date 9/25 is a perfect nod to her iconic “9 to 5,” …
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Screen time data tells only part of the story. By looking beyond minutes, schools can better understand how students use technology and make smarter, more informed decisions about digital learning.
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Like other teachers, I have experienced numerous classroom observations. And, for a short time, I had the opportunity to observe and assess using T-TESS instrument. Each time, I felt like …
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Every piece of technology was once new, exciting, and impressive. Floppy disks made it possible to save and move computer files. Ditto machines created purple-inked copies for an entire class. …
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Good TeachingInstructional CoachingLeadership
5 Teacher Archetypes Every Instructional Coach Should Recognize
Five teacher archetypes. Five very different coaching conversations. Learn to recognize who is in front of you, choose a better opening move, and make those precious coaching minutes actually count.
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AssessmentClassroom ActivitiesCurricular StandardsEnglish Language Arts Reading (ELAR)Good TeachingReadingTEKS
Teacher Printables: Get Literature Circles Talking, Thinking, and Using Evidence
You have put students into groups, handed them a book, and told them to discuss. A few students jump in. Someone else summarizes the entire chapter. Another student has apparently …
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Classroom ActivitiesMath
Teacher Printables: Make STAAR Review More Useful with Math Visual Cue Cards
You taught the rule. Students practiced it. Then two weeks later, somebody looks at a problem involving negative numbers as if the minus sign just arrived from another planet. That …
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Season 2 of The Stuff I Learned About Learning is here! And we aren’t starting slowly. Four new episodes are already waiting for you, with conversations about accessibility, technology leadership, …
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Supervising a web developer in a school district can be fun. Your idea starts out as a simple website, but then, pretty soon, the web developer is making suggestions about …
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How Educators Can Use AI to Tell Stories, Spark Conversations, and Build Community Artificial intelligence has become one of the biggest topics in education. Many educators are exploring how AI …
