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Active Listening Strategies For Charismatic Student Conversations

As teachers incorporate collaborative learning in their lesson plans, it is critical that they model active listening to their students.

Literacy / January 10, 2022 January 10, 2022 / How-To, Terry Heick

What’s one crazy, moonshot idea that may never work in this plan–but if it did, it could change everything?

Technology / July 25, 2021 November 18, 2021 / How-To

A video syllabus is a version of your syllabus in video form. It can be a simple slideshow or a creative framing of your course.

Learning / June 21, 2021 December 28, 2021 / How-To, Whole Child

Instead of asking, ‘How can we slow their loss of academic progress?” we might ask instead, “What do children need over summer break?”

Looking For The Google Classroom Login page? Depending on where you live and what device you’re on, it may not be easy to find.

One of the most common uses of the cloud in today’s classroom is word processing–which brings us to Google Drive.

Technology / February 22, 2021 December 5, 2021 / Equity, How-To

On your Mac, choose Apple menu >
System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Dictation.

How do you create a forward-leaning curriculum? Situate non-judgment, openness, and empathy as the true keys to 21st century competency.

Teaching / January 14, 2021 January 16, 2022 / How-To, Remote Teaching

Make digital spaces inviting to students–something that ‘belongs to your class’ rather than your class merely ‘using a digital space.’

Want to teach students empathy? Start by helping students themselves not, “How am I unique?” but rather “How are we the same?”

Locked Mode for Chromebooks means students can’t open up anything else but the assessment itself. That’s it.

Technology / September 15, 2020 December 28, 2021 / How-To

The tool uses artificial intelligence to help users to search visual content in American newspapers dating from 1789-1963.