It’s important to celebrate when students complete a writing piece. However, that can be tricky if you’re teaching digitally. Here are 3 simple ways to celebrate students’ published writing digitally. Celebrating when students finish a writing piece is so important that I include it in every week of my writing curriculum. In the classroom, it can be really simple to…
Did you know you can add your own audio to Google Slides presentations? It’s true, and it’s fairly simple. Here’s a step by step guide of how to add your own audio to Google Slides. Why Add Audio to Google Slides? First, let’s talk about why you’d want to add audio to Google Slides activities? (If you already know why…
Interviewing for teaching jobs can feel overwhelming and stressful. Unfortunately, if you don’t interview well, you’re unlikely to get the job. Whether it’s your first teaching job, second, or fifth, you can do a few simple things that will make all the difference. If you take the time to prepare, speak clearly, and follow some simple etiquette, that teaching job…
To many parents, it might feel like history is being erased and changed. Many lessons and activities they loved and enjoyed are no longer taught: Columbus discovering America, Thanksgiving feasts reenacting the first Thanksgiving, and Martin Luther King Jr. “fixing” all racial discord in America. Here are 5 reasons we need to help parents understand why the way we teach…
I’ve shared before how you can respond to parents who question new math, but how do we help them understand it? Like it or not, math instruction is likely not going to move back to the old “do it this way and don’t think about why” way of thinking. So, how we do help parents understand how to support their…