Professional learning is an integral part of school culture and developing staff. Summer is a great time to reflect and revitalize yourself as an educator. One area that applies to both of these is professional development. Even though we know professional learning is important, a 2013 report on professional development (PD) by the National School Boards …
We have all heard the saying you can’t put a price on education, but what about the out-of-pocket classroom expenses incurred by educators each year? Great teachers are always looking for new ways to expand their instruction and engage their students. Innovative teaching is important–but it can be expensive. This requires access to funding for …
Unprecedented challenges! A new school year is underway, and students are facing unprecedented challenges as most are having to “learn how to learn” in a whole new way. Due to the learning hurdles dictated by COVID, students have brought traditional classroom learning back into their own homes, giving a huge rise to the relatively new …
New Year, New Classroom Budget! With the start of a new school year comes new money allocated for teachers and their classroom budget. This money must be spent or it is often lost. A use it or lose it situation. Over the years I have frustratedly witnessed teachers and administrators alike hastily spending away on …
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Google Expeditions and DayDream Apps – GONE! Many of the beloved Google Virtual experience platforms are soon to be a thing of the past. Google recently announced its decision to end support for its Expeditions and DayDream virtual reality (VR) apps, which offer educational VR tours. Google published the news in a blog post, and …
One of the fastest-growing demographics in education today is our English Learners (ELs). With this unprecedented surge in students, we must support our teachers in providing them with a quality EL program and the necessary services for their success. Student success is not just reading skills, we must address the whole student. ELs must be …
Preparing students for future jobs is an interesting thought. What are those jobs? Also, who has the experience necessary to do this? Educators often draw from their own learning experiences in K-12 and higher education to inform their instruction. What responsibility do they have in preparing today’s students for a future that they have …
Get to Know Usborne Books Usborne books are a great resource that I would recommend to anyone working with children, specifically younger children. There are numerous book sellers out there that target school aged children, but Usborne is a resource for not only children’s books, but online resources that extend the child’s interaction with the …
What defines a struggling reader? When you think about teaching struggling readers, most often it is associated with students who can’t sound out words or have difficulty understanding the word they are reading. Reading skills are broad and can be one of the most difficult things to teach. Especially, if you get a student in …
Response to Intervention (RtI) By the end of the first semester of the school year, the intervention process and Response to Intervention should be in full swing. However, that means different things to different people in a school. Each state calls the intervention process something different, but the Response to Intervention process is a multi-tiered …
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