Ditch That Textbook

In many ways, we educators live in an exciting time to be in the classroom and work with students. Examples: We have lots of access […]

Summer is the perfect opportunity to focus on ourselves both professionally and personally. Whether it’s through a conference, online course, reading, or catching up on […]

Differentiated instruction. Great tech use. They’re both doable — and they can work in harmony! In this book that I co-authored with educators Nate and […]

This post comes from accepting a challenge. I’m a regular listener of the Google Teacher Tribe podcast hosted by Matt Miller and Kasey Bell. After […]

Before I became a teacher, I worked outside of education as a full-time newspaper journalist. Of the many differences between being a reporter and being […]

We’ve all been there. Maybe it was when you were looking for a website login, an exact address or a coworker’s blog. At some point, […]

Woodworking has been a hobby of mine since I was young. I got it from my dad, who got it from his dad. We’re a […]

Digital escape rooms, also referred to as digital breakouts, are a great way to bring gameplay and problem solving to any lesson or unit. They […]

Write and highlight the word, write the definition, give an example… YAWN! Vocabulary is critical to learning, yet it is often done in drill and […]

The end of the year provides us with lots of opportunities to try something new. We might have a little bit of time before or […]

I know what you are thinking, ditch that grade? Really? Well, maybe not all grades… or maybe? It begs the question, why give grades? Where […]

Writing and organizing your lesson plans can be difficult. Our time is precious and we want our lesson plans to be a meaningful part of […]