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Sketchnoting: An Overview

Sketchnoting, or visual note-taking, allows learners to create their own customized notes by combining images, graphics, and structure.This video...

Scaffolding Collaboration

Collaboration, especially in the digital setting, can be challenging to facilitate. This resource from the Five Star team will give you...

Sample ELA Rubrics

Rubrics are great tools when assessing student work. Using rubrics can guide your instruction, encourage consistency, and let your students know what...

Remind: Getting Started for Parents

Does your learner's teacher use Remind to communicate with you? Perhaps you're part of your Parent/Teacher Organization and are looking to...

Rememberry

With the Rememberry extension, learning a foreign language is integrated into an activity you already do: browsing websites! Translate any text you...

My Wordle: Create Your Own Wordle

Have you wondered what those grey, yellow, and green boxes are that your social media friends keep posting about? They're playing Wordle! Wordle is a...

Innovators' Compass

The Innovators' Compass is a great tool that allows users of all ages to see a situation from many angles and brainstorm possible solutions. With the...

Gmail: Setting up a Vacation Responder

Do you often have a flood of emails that come in at all times of the day? There is a setting in Gmail that you can turn on when you are away from...

What is Cyberbullying?

It's an unfortunate truth of the internet: some online spaces can be full of negative, rude, or downright mean behavior. But what kinds of behaviors...

Cooperation vs. Collaboration

We often see students working together and think students are collaborating. But is this true collaboration, or is this cooperative learning?Check...

How it Started, How it's Going - Google Slides Template

Are you looking for a low-stakes, non-content activity that allows students to practice using collaborative Google Slides? Then, you have to check...

Top 10 Forms of Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is a fast-growing crime targeting children and teenagers. Learn about the top 10 common forms of cyberbullying in this video, produced...

Free Mindfulness Classes for K-5

Mindfulness is an increasingly important skill in today's fast-paced world, and with this resource from Mindful Schools, you can help your students...

The Compliments Project

Looking for a way to boost your class's sense of community and appreciation for one another? Check out this article in which Jen Gonzalez, author of...

8 Elements of Mattering

Little feels more motivating than knowing you're appreciated, and for teachers, mattering matters more than ever. Mattering is the feeling that our...

Digital Wellbeing

Calling all Android users! Google has developed an app, named Digital Wellbeing, that helps you track and manage your technology usage. This video...

Exit Tickets

Exit tickets can be used for many things: quick assessments, content review, and much more. Check out this Ditch the Textbook resource,...

The Go-Getter's Guide to a Growth Mindset

Shannon Anderson, author of Y is for Yet and Mindset Power, shares the importance of developing and maintaining a growth mindset to succeed inside...

Quill: An Overview

Quill is a free tool designed to help K-12 students develop writing, grammar, and vocabulary skills. Teachers can assign activities for fixing...

PROVEN: An Acronym for Source Evaluation

Teaching students to research effectively can genuinely be a difficult task. CORA, also known as the Community of Online Research Assignments,...