Struggling with end-of-year behavior? Discover practical classroom management strategies to keep students engaged and finish the school year strong.
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The 20% AI Policy Won’t Work. Here’s What May.
A teacher at a high school opens the semester with a policy: Your work may contain up to 20% Gen AI content. Cite it, or you get a zero. Is …
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Remember the days of drowning in essays and other written assignments, each page a crimson battlefield of red pen corrections? Those days are over, my friends. Don’t get me wrong, …
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Sitting in a safety committee meeting while someone argues about door labels is exactly how you want to spend a Wednesday morning. You have three spreadsheets open, a half-eaten taco, …
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End-of-Year Review Made Easy: Build a Choice Board That Boosts Student Engagement
End-of-year review doesn’t have to be a struggle. This choice board strategy gives students ownership, boosts engagement, and helps you reinforce key concepts without rebuilding your entire curriculum.
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When Disaster Strikes: The Cyber Edition
Back in December 2017, I wrote about a tabletop exercise game built after hearing Round Rock ISD’s CTO (Chief Technology Officer) Mark Gabehart (now retired) talk about disaster preparedness. “It’s …
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Instructional Coaching: Research-Based Teaching Strategies That Actually Work in Every Classroom
Cut through the noise of education trends. Discover research-based teaching strategies that actually work—and how instructional coaches can turn small shifts into meaningful classroom impact.
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“What recommendations, if any, do you have for an online algebra tutor?” This question pushed me to search online for free, perhaps AI-powered, algebra tutors. Having struggled with Algebra I …
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You are staring at your Texas history unit plan, specifically the part where students identify contributions of Texas artists and musicians. Willie Nelson is on the list. On the Road …
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Another Sunday evening deadline pops up. You have seventeen browser tabs open as you try to put a newsletter together that goes out the next morning. Each one holds a …
