Lesson Design
Often poetry is taught as a standalone unit, sometimes leaving students to groan & roll their eyes. What if poetry was woven into every unit?
Who says Pi Day should only be celebrated in math class? There is plenty of fun to go all through the school day on March 14!
Kahoot is a well loved review tool. What about using it at the beginning to get the wheels of curiosity spinning?
Biases. We all have them. We need to recognize them in ourselves and unlearn the ones that are getting in the way of our students’ success.
Did you know 2/22/22 is on Tuesday? Let’s find some ways to celebrate!
We know writers need feedback, but we know the feedback takes time. Here’s help in working smarter & faster to get your writers the feedback they need.
Escape rooms are more than a “Saturday night with friends” activity! Learn how to bring the fun to your classroom!
Getting the brain ready to learn is an often overlooked step. Let’s explore some strategies!
Makerspaces sound, and look, fun! What are the learning benefits to students?
Are you having trouble bringing real-world relevance into your classroom? Tracker, a free-use software allows your students to film any physical phenomenon with nearly any device and use that video to pull actual data with regards to nearly any quantity. Students can explore parabolas by filming a ball going through the air, or sinusoidal functions by filming a spring oscillating. The possibilities are nearly endless! In this blog we’ll go through the process of setting up Tracker and how to pull useful data from videos so that you can explore the mathematics behind nearly any scenario!
Schools today are facing many challenges and one of them that needs solving now is how to handle learning loss. One solution to this problem is Design Thinking. Design Thinking is a creative process that begin with empathy and problem defining and end with implementation. This creative process encourages students to redefine problems, inspire new ideas, take informed risks, and never stop learning.
I wanted to create a space where my students could make mistakes and be okay, where they actually liked coming to my class, where they felt “smart” in their own way wherever they were in their learning, where they would push themselves to do better than yesterday, where they could struggle with something and still be alive to tell about it.