First Day of School, Again: How to Keep Starting Over
Remember when the first day of school happened just once at the end of summertime? Students would show...
4 Tips For Giving Rigorous Math Feedback During Remote Learning
When we first shifted to remote learning last Spring, I felt lost. With everything happening...
Teacher's Lounge - Advice for Virtual Instruction: No Comfort Zone
Dear Teacher’s Lounge,
For the past several months, I’ve been living with the...
Best Equipment for Virtual Teaching in 2021
Thanks to technological advancements, it does not take much equipment to conduct a virtual learning session....
Best Practices to Avoid Anxiety as a Virtual Instructor
Anxiety has crept its way into our lives, and now more than ever, we see anxiety in teaching. In...
Organization for Teens Learning Remotely
With many middle and high school students still attending school remotely, now might be the time to brush up on (or...
Why Art and Design Is Just As Important as Science and Math
The change from STEM to STEAM (Science, Technology, Arts, Engineering and Math) focussed...
Bringing Tech & Library Skills into Physical Education
Cross-Curricular Integration & Collaboration for PE Teachers
Course Description:
Whether you’...
Building a Cheat Sheet for Your Child’s Online Schooling
Are you and your child still having difficulties with online schooling? I work from home, and I...
Getting A Handle on Child Assessments
Why do we assess children? Teachers have an almost endless list of tasks to accomplish – lesson planning, preparing...
Teacher’s Lounge - Advice for Virtual Instruction: Lost My Groove
Dear Teacher’s Lounge:
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I’m having a hard time...
Is there such thing as ‘good’ screen time for young children?
When people learn that I have spent my career in early childhood education and received my...
No Educator Left Behind
No Educator Left Behind is an occasional series providing answers from the U.S. Department of Education to questions about the...
Hybrid Instruction - Eight Tools and Strategies for Success
For the past several months, we have all tried to wrap our minds around hybrid...
Implementing Environmentalism Into Photography Education
Every object we use and every action we take has an environmental impact; the same is true for arts...
How Parents Can Navigate the Complex World of Special Education Homeschooling
The popularity of homeschooling in the US has been growing steadily over the...
Teacher's Lounge Virtual Instruction Advice - High Anxiety
Dear Teacher’s Lounge,
As we get closer to the start of school, I’m so confused by all the new...
Teacher's Lounge: Advice for Virtual Instruction
One of the first lessons I learned as a teacher was not to fake expertise. Students asked me all...
Samsung Awards Five Schools Across America $100,000 for Innovative STEM Solutions
Public schools named grand prize winners in $3 million* 10th annual Samsung...
Creating Comic Strips to Strengthen Writing Mechanics - Lesson 4
Subject: Language Arts
Grade: 5
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.3.a - Orient the...