Resources

Google Drive: 5 Best Tips for Organizing Files & Folders

This resource, from In 30 Minutes, offers 5 tips for making the most out of Google Drive. Discussed are the 5 principles Ian Lamont uses for...

Google Drawings Manifesto

In this resource from Matt Miller of Ditch That Textbook, Google Drawings is a blank slate for your students’ creativity. Many teachers and...

Class Dojo Big Ideas Growth Mindset Series

Watch this series of videos from Class Dojo with your students and facilitate discussion with related activities for social-emotional learning. In...

Deck Toys: Gamify Your Lesson

Are you looking for a way to gamify your lesson? Deck Toys is a simple solution that allows you to add your content, activities, and checks...

How to Lead a Student-Paced Lesson or Activity in Pear Deck

Pear Deck is an add-on for Google Slides that allows you to make your Slides presentations more interactive and engaging for your students. ...

Google Docs Cheat Sheet

This resource, provided by the Google Workspace Learning Center, is a reference sheet for those new to using Google Docs. This cheat sheet (their...

Take Off Your Shoes and Stay Awhile: Building Community in a Virtual Setting

Being intentional in fostering community in all settings is important, but interaction is especially important in a virtual setting, whether it is...

Grab a Cup of Coffee and Let's Discuss Compassion Fatigue vs Burnout

How to detect the difference between compassion fatigue and burnout among educators. Join the discussion to learn more about the differences and how...

Forcing a Copy in Google Docs

When sharing a Google Doc you've created with others, you have many options. Frequently, we want to share a Doc with others, but we don't want them...

InsertLearning Overview

Are you looking for an easy way to transform website content into a learning activity for your students? Then look no...

What are Pear Deck Slides? A Quick Overview for Teachers

A powerful benefit to teaching and learning in a technology-rich environment is the ability to engage and assess each and every student in real time....

Creating and Using a HyperDoc

Utilizing a HyperDoc allows teachers and students to streamline work and easily access everything needed. Students can also exercise some control...

Reactive Listening

This video from Common Sense Education is all about getting kids to be reactive listeners. When you use video in your classroom (virtual or...

Teacher & Student Privacy Online

Letting your students use online programs in your classroom can raise privacy and digital safety questions. Even though there are filters in place,...

10 Ways to Use Technology in ESL Instruction

Providing adequate instruction for ALL students can be a challenge, but technology tools can be instrumental in reaching the students who need...

Tips for Parents of Kindergarteners

Play with letters, words, and sounds! Having fun with language helps your child learn to crack the code of reading.

Integrating Play Into Literacy Instruction

This Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest video shows how to implement research-based literacy practices from the What Works Clearinghouse...

Desmos Graphing Stories

"This activity will help students make the transition from one-variable representations (e.g., number lines) to the TWO-variable representation of...

Dan Meyer Graphing Stories

In this blog post from Dan Meyer, learn all about how he crafted original graphing stories to use with students. Included in the post are separate...

Mathemagical World Graphing Stories

"A graphing story is a classroom routine that can be used to develop secondary school students' knowledge of graphs, relationships and mathematical...