After completing Module 18 in SIOP, I’ve been thinking a lot about student engagement. Obviously, we all do our very best to engage students, but sometimes it is very difficult… Continue reading "Keep Early Finishers Engaged with Anchor Activities"
All accommodations are focused on one thing: how do we make the content accessible to the student? Several years ago, I was challenged to think about an educational Hippocratic Oath.… Continue reading "Low Barrier, High Impact Accommodations"
Each month, the Technology Ambassadors work hard to create resources, materials, and other tools to help you with planning, brainstorming, or getting quick tips. To make them easy to find,… Continue reading "April Resource Pack"
Accessibility has been a main theme this year in our resources and Chrome has added a great new tool to expand usability on websites with the addition of Live Captions.… Continue reading "Enable Live Captions in Chrome"
Each month, the Technology Ambassadors work hard to create resources, materials, and other tools to help you with planning, brainstorming, or getting quick tips. To make them easy to find,… Continue reading "February Resource Pack"
Canvas makes it easy to allow students to submit multiple times to the same assignment. This helps you move away from completion and compliance for student work toward a feedback… Continue reading "Focus on Feedback in Canvas"
We’re online for the long haul. Even with hybrid teaching, our students are working in a virtual classroom, through Seesaw or Canvas, three days a week. As teachers, a pandemic… Continue reading "Using Video in Online Classes"
To support all high school classes moving online again, the Tech Ambassadors have helped compile a virtual teaching toolkit to help staff get back in the swing of online teaching.… Continue reading "Virtual Teaching Toolkit"
Jamboard is a collaborative whiteboard tool within your Google account. All students in the district have access at this point and in this post, we’re going to share three ways… Continue reading "Three Ways to Use Jamboard with Students"
Station rotations can be a great way to help students engage with topics or ideas. This post curates some ideas and resources to help you get started.
Welcome back to school! We’re excited to be back and learn with everyone this year. If you’re wondering who to contact for ideas, tips, or tricks in instruction this year,… Continue reading "2020-21 Technology Ambassadors"
Virtual teaching is hard. It’s especially difficult when you’re starting from scratch with students. When we moved to virtual instruction last spring, we at least had six months of work… Continue reading "Building Relationships in Virtual Teaching"