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12 Questions To Help You Create A School Writing Plan

Literacy / 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?

Here are 40 ideas for using Flipgrid in the classroom, separated by pre-K through 8, High School, and College/University.

From part to whole to synonyms and antonyms, to cause and effect and step and sequences, here are good examples for teaching with analogies.

When it comes to supporting a student’s progress, showing them what they can do to improve or perform better is the key.

Technology / July 25, 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.

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 / 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.

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

Video games are increasingly used to confront social and cultural issues that are otherwise problematic to address with a raging troll-fest.