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48 Ways Google Can Help You Become A Better Teacher

Use Google maps to tell digital stories with text, photo and video all embedded into a trail students create on the map to share with others.

Teaching / August 4, 2019

The start of the year is often reduced to organizing, setting rules, & learning names. What should we consider when headed back to school?

Besides teaching, there aren’t many jobs where it’s your job to work with so many children to make their life better on a daily basis.

From levels of student engagement to additive grading to remote teaching, here are 10 of our most popular articles about student engagement.

Teaching / July 24, 2019

One change to your teaching will lead to another. Stay curious; respond to new thinking with a critical eye and a heart full of possibility.

With the indispensable tool, Pinterest, teachers can save everything from photos to blog posts in one easily accessible and usable place.

What happens when teachers step out of their comfort zones? Well, that depends on the nature of the change.

This (simple) game helps students understand how fake news works, why it becomes popular, and its central mechanics and trends.

Improving engagement in a language learning classroom is accomplished by building relationships and creating fun lessons.

While the goal of a school isn’t ‘to make teachers happy,’ a school full of ‘happy’ teachers can change the world.

Literacy / July 3, 2019

Here, we offer a few ideas for using technology to teach writing, with commentary on why good writing is so important to students’ futures.

Critical Thinking / June 23, 2019

MECE is a framework that allows you to organize data to ensure that all data is analyzed to ensure all possibilities are exhausted.