5 resources for building community

Starting how you mean to go on New year, new students. New school, sometimes, and a whole new opportunity to help a group of students […]

4 times to connect students with an authentic audience

How soon is now? Looking for opportunities to make real-world connections or bring an authentic audience to your students? Typically, a public presentation at the […]

How to bake an inspiring kickoff video

Launching a new project cycle with inspiration from the last one Organizing your realia — testimonials, storytelling and artifacts — from a round of projects […]

How to use Google Docs so students talk to you

Using technology to help build relationships Remember when you were in middle school? How awkward did you feel, asking a teacher for help with everyone […]

4 end-of-year activities for advisory

Acknowledge, share, recognize The end of the school year is every bit as happy and joyous as it is chaotic and stressful. Make sure that […]

Using audiobooks for Universal Design for Learning

Expanding student access to reading As a school librarian, I needed to think how I could adopt Universal Design for Learning (UDL)  in my own […]

8 ideas for outdoor learning

Expand your classroom and keep kids engaged The weather is getting nicer. The sun is finally out. And you are in charge of keeping your […]

4 ways students can control the pace of content delivery

Deliver the goods! Rather than creating a unit on the Civil War, imagine working with an individual student or small group on a topic that […]

4 ways of finding copyright-friendly media

The art of the responsible remix With the incredible popularity and ease of digital mediamaking comes great responsibility. As students unlock the power of digital storytelling and media […]

The tech-rich social studies classroom

Standard 3-part story-driven post: 1) what it is, 2) what it looks like in a school, 3) how to do it in your school The […]

Looking at ways students can create VR content

Standard 3-part story-driven post: 1) what it is, 2) what it looks like in a school, 3) how to do it in your school The […]

Student-centered filmmaking at Compass

Standard 3-part story-driven post: 1) what it is, 2) what it looks like in a school, 3) how to do it in your school The […]

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