Seesaw has just released some amazing improvements that will make your teacher life so much easier! Students can’t delete teacher-created activity pages anymore Smarter pen vs move tool selection Accidental… Continue reading "5 Amazing Seesaw Creative Tool Improvements"
Before we begin, it is important that we all have a shared understanding of the purpose of grades. For standard based grading, we need to agree that the purpose of… Continue reading "SBG in the Elementary Classroom"
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… Continue reading "5 Ways to Use Edpuzzle with Elementary Students"
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… Continue reading "Celebrating Veterans Day"
Are you looking for some back to school activities that introduce the iPad and/or Seesaw to your students? Look no further. Below you can find a small collection of activities that… Continue reading "Back to School Activities with iPad"
What is Institute Day? All elementary and middle school teachers get a full day of tailored PD. This is a fully-virtual conference with sessions to choose from throughout the day.… Continue reading "Let’s talk March 3rd: ECS Institute Day"
Seesaw blogs are a great way to showcase the work your students are doing in the classroom. By engaging with an authentic audience of their classmates and parents, students are… Continue reading "Showcasing Student Work with the Seesaw Blog!"
If there is one thing we know for sure, it’s that there isn’t enough time in the day to get all the things accomplished that you want to get done.… Continue reading "Save Time with Seesaw Templates"
How many of your students are not keeping up with their Seesaw assignments? How many parents actually know which assignments their student still needs to turn in? Since Seesaw isn’t designed to… Continue reading "Motivational Reward and Progress Charts in Seesaw"
One unique twist on this well liked read aloud activity is to incorporate a mystery reader into your routine. Just like you are missing your students faces, they are missing the faces of all the teachers and staff that they used to see every week. Here is a great way to combine read aloud books, a fun mystery, and the sharing of love.
Holding kids accountable for their reading at home (or even in class) is always a challenge. Kids are getting better and better at “fake reading” and are often unfocused. Even… Continue reading "Supporting Independent Reading with Book Talks"
We wanted to eliminate using multiple worksheets and add depth of knowledge to science and social studies assignments this year. Making templates in Pages is easy to do, so we took… Continue reading "Using Pages Templates with Elementary Students"