Professional Development on Your Terms: Why?

Jul 31, 2019 | Best Practices

The summer is quickly coming to an end, and this means professional development days! The excitement of setting up your classrooms, designing your reading corner (Thank you, Pinterest!), color-coding your lesson plans by subject (oh, that could just be me), and making...

Let’s Wrap This Up!

May 29, 2019 | Lessons

It’s the end of the school year and testing is OVER! That’s right…O-V-E-R, OVER. So, now what? For most, this time of the year means cleaning out desks, taking down bulletin boards, and trying to keep your students focused on something education-related. With just a...

Game-Play Leads to Learning Benefits

May 16, 2019 | Best Practices, New Features

Choose the best answer to the following question: On a Wednesday afternoon, a math teacher asks his class of 6th graders, “Who wants to play a game?” What is the most likely response from the class of students? A few students raise their hands while the rest of the...

Cloze Activities for Interactive Boards

May 13, 2019 | New Features, Best Practices

Can you correctly complete the following sentence? ____ sentences have ____ that students need to fill in with the correct _____. Correct answer: Cloze sentences have blanks that students need to fill in with the correct answers. Cloze activities can be applied to a...

Math Workshop – Your Students Will Thank You

May 1, 2019 | Best Practices

Math has been the bane of my educational career, starting from kindergarten (“Count what?”) to when I was studying to get my teaching credential and had to take an Educational Foundations of Math class (“There’s a difference between concept and skill?!”). Teaching...