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5 Powerful Ways to Save Time as a Teacher
Lack of time is a huge problem for teachers everywhere. There’s just never enough time for teachers to do their work well AND have a healthy, balanced life outside the classroom. For as long as I...
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Helping Students Make New Year’s Resolutions: A Step-by-Step Plan
Just like the adults around them, our students may be looking at the new year as an opportunity for renewal, a time to assess their life and consider how they might want to improve it. And we can...
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Classroom Eye Candy 2: The Learning Lounge
Last November, I showed you an incredible classroom that blew me away to such a degree that it caused me to launch the Classroom Eye Candy series. Since then, I have heard from dozens of other...
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Should You Switch Grade Levels?
About two weeks ago, I got this question on my Facebook page: Hi everyone. Has anybody switched from secondary teaching (upper years) to primary teaching? Pros and cons? Since I have not had this...
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6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2016
About a year ago, I published an e-book called the Teacher’s Guide to Tech. Over the last month, I have been updating it for 2016, adding over 30 new tools and refreshing the information I had about...
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Can-Do Descriptors: A Free Tool for ESL Differentiation
Every year, in classrooms all over the country, the population of English language learners continues to grow. Depending on where you live and how far along your school’s ESL program is, you may...
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A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Argumentative Writing
Listen to this post as a podcast: For seven years, I was a writing teacher. Yes, I was certified to teach the full spectrum of English language arts—literature, grammar and usage, speech, drama,...
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A Collection of Resources for Teaching Social Justice
Ask teachers to describe the impact they hope to have on their students, and most will eventually say something along these lines: I want my students to grow into responsible citizens. I want my...
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5 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Unmotivated Students
Listen to this post as a podcast: When I ask teachers what their biggest struggles are, one issue comes up on a regular basis: student motivation. You are able to reach many of your students,...
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BoomWriter: A Fun Twist on Collaborative Writing
This is a sponsored post. All opinions are my own. I used to play this writing game with my students. Maybe you’ve played it, too: Sitting in a circle, each student got a piece of paper and wrote...
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How This School Library Increased Student Use by 1,000 Percent
To adapt to changing student needs, some school libraries are reinventing themselves as makerspaces, but this Ohio library took a slightly different approach. Now they’re seeing incredible results....
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How to Plan Outstanding Tech Training for Your Teachers
Listen to this post as a podcast: I recently got an email from a guy who had just been hired as a tech specialist for a school district. His job would be to help teachers in his school use...
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A Few Strategies to Help Slow-Working Students
A parent recently asked me for advice about her son. Although his academic skills are strong, he feels the need to complete every task to absolute perfection; this means he finishes his work long,...
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How to Stop Yelling at Your Students
Listen to this post as a podcast: I’ll start right away by admitting I have done my fair share of yelling. As a middle school teacher, I wasn’t too bad—I probably had one good yell per week. As a...
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Student-Made E-Books: A Beautiful Way to Demonstrate Learning
Listen to this post as a podcast: You’ve reached the end of a unit or year, and you want students to demonstrate their learning in a way that requires them to synthesize information, apply it in...
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Kiddom: Standards-Based Grading Made Wonderful
This is a sponsored post. All opinions are my own. The growing popularity of standards-based grading and instruction is a good thing: Instead of a single grade representing how much work our...
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Kindergarten Redshirting: How Kids Feel About it Later in Life
More parents are opting to delay their child’s entry into kindergarten. Years later, how do these students and their parents feel about the decision? Listen to the full interview: Read Transcript My...
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So you have a Twitter account. Now what?
Listen to an extended version of this post as a podcast: I hear it all the time: “I have a Twitter account, but I don’t really know how to use it.” I understand this thinking completely. Before I...
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Listen Current: Bringing World-Class Podcasts to the Classroom
“Students – Podium” by Andy is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 This is a sponsored post. All opinions are my own. I have been a fan of public radio for decades. The quality of reporting, the depth of...
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Join the Cult of Pedagogy Summer Study!
While everyone else spends their summer having fun and “chilling,” a true Teacher Nerd sees the summer for what it really is: An opportunity to LEARN MORE!! With that in mind, I’m thrilled to...
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