Optimize your instruction with these 12 questions: an essential teacher’s checklist for lesson planning during unprecedented times.
Your 2020 Classroom Library: creating equity and belonging in your classroom and on your bookshelves
Looking to build your summer reading list for secondary learners? Ready to amp up your own professional development? Fill your classroom bookshelves full with these literary selections and professional suggestions.
8 of the best Ted Talks teachers should watch for motivation, inspiration, and ideas to develop student passions and interest in learning.
What kind of habits or routines do you traditionally establish in your classrooms? How linked are these with the big picture success you envision for your learners? In this session,...
In today’s post, we’ll look back on 5 important lessons we’re learning as we teach from a digital distance. Along the way, we’ll consider some important questions we need to ask ourselves before making our way back into the comfort of our classrooms.
Standards-based grading implementation has never been as important as it is when teaching digitally. The research and suggestions in this post will help you set a course of action to making your students’ grades mean something real.
Peer editing, like every classroom practice, must be taught. The peer editing tips in this post will help you give your students the guidance they need to take their peer...
As we dive head-first into distance and virtual learning, tech tools for teaching have gone from being a luxury, and sometimes a nuisance, to being absolutely necessary for helping students...
Teachers all over are trying to navigate teaching ELA remotely, and this post is full of inspiring, innovative ideas for digital instruction. (’10 Inspiring Ideas for Digital Instruction’: you can...
Communicating online involves reading, writing, using your own voice, and listening to those of others. As secondary ELA teachers, this is *definitely* our department!