You’re Ready for SBG Today
Grades should represent what students know and can do. If you agree, then you’re ready to start.
Powerful Tools and Resources for PBLs
What is PBL? Project Based Learning (PBL) actively engages students in authentic and meaningful tasks throughout the learning process. Instead of the famous poster board project at the end of…
5 Ways to Use Edpuzzle with Elementary Students
For some teachers, bringing technology into an elementary classroom can be overwhelming. What tools should you use? How much is too much? Or enough? What if the kids break their…
Three Powerful Feedback Tools in Canvas
Canvas is full of tools you can use to provide rich, timely feedback to students. In this post, we want to break down the three most impactful methods of giving…
Adding Audio to Google Slides 3 Ways
Why Should I add Audio? We need to continue to make material that is easily accessible to all of our students. Whether you are presenting a lesson, engaging students in…
Celebrating Veterans Day
Students love an opportunity to celebrate a holiday. Unfortunately, I often forget to plan for holidays until the day before and I find myself in a last-minute pickle searching for…
SEL and Jamboards
I was able to work with some awesome 7th and 8th graders from North Side to build this Jammin’ SEL resource that is easy to edit and simple to use.…
5 Ideas to Up Your Game with Content and Language Objectives
Looking for ways to change up how you use content and language objectives in your classroom? Below find 5 ideas on how to up your game with content and language…
Why You Should be Using the Accessibility Checker on Canvas
We need to ensure that everything provided to our students are accessible. It wasn’t until I started using the accessibility checker that I noticed easy adjustments to ensure equal access…
Making Learning Concrete with Hands-On Activities and Manipulatives
Practice and Application The 6th component of SIOP is Practice and Application. Practice and Application focuses on how will students will practice both the content and language objectives. It is…
3 ways to Implement SIOP in under 10 minutes with Explain Basics
All secondary teachers and students have free access to Explain Basics on their self service app store on the iPad. If you haven’t used this iPad app it can be…
Using Immersive Reader and New Quizzes to Build Background in Canvas
October 16 Update: Canvas has now made immersive reader available in more areas, not just pages. Read more below. Our students enter our classrooms with different life experiences. This is…
Keep Early Finishers Engaged with Anchor Activities
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…