Standards-based instruction raises your teaching game. When you move away from the textbook, the standards become your road map. You embrace backward design and move to a higher level of…
ELA activities for the first week of school need to be a perfect fit. Try these ready-made plans for the best back-to-school ever! Your fourth grade students will love them.…
Organize your teacher life with Google Sites! The tools for controlling curricula and managing your classroom are at your fingertips. Better yet, they’re free. (more…)
Sub plans are a snap with Google Sites! First, attach your seating chart and schedule. Then link important classroom information. Finally, include your lesson plans. When you make your sub…
Building a teacher dashboard is easier than you think. But what is it? Just think of it as a teacher binder on steroids. Sleek. Powerful. Sophisticated. And all within your…
Long-range plans. What does this term bring to mind? A set of dusty, blue binders – full of obsolete plans that took months to create – pop into my brain.…
When you make lesson plans with Google Slides, your teaching life becomes organized. Just create a template you like. Then save it as the background of a Google Slide. Insert…
You can organize curriculum and easily share it with Google Sites. Whether you arrange your teaching around standards, topics, or calendars, Sites will do the trick. What’s more? You can…
Flipped classroom gives you more class time. Just store media in a Google Site. Then ask kids to review it at home. You can link text, graphics, audio, and visual…