Complete this activity from The Co-Teacher's Playbook as a co-teaching team to take stock of your individual strengths and goals in order to better understand how you can better work together.
Complete this activity from The Co-Teacher's Playbook as a co-teaching team to take stock of your individual strengths and goals in order to better understand how you can better work together.
This excerpt from 50+ Tech Tools for School Counselors describes organization tool Google Keep, which educators can use to create task lists for projects, work collaboratively to check off items as completed, and see what else needs to be done.
This handy chart from The Five Practices in Practice, Elementary, by Margaret “Peg” Smith, Victoria Bill, and Miriam Gamoran Sherin identifies a set of moves that teachers can make to hold students accountable for attending to mathematics discussions and presentations.
Read how you can enact a gradual release of responsibilty within your Balanced Literacy groups in this blog post from Nancy Akhavan, co-author of This Is Balanced Literacy.
In this introduction from Mathematize It!, Grades 3-5, the authors clearly define mathematizing and explain why it is critically important in order for students to make accurate and meaningful connections between word problems and the operations that can solve them, developing and strengthening their operation sense.
This foreword from The School in the Cloud, by education researcher John Hattie, discusses how, with Sugata Mitra's model of schooling in the cloud, we can use the technologies that are now available to conceive of a totally different type of schooling.
This foreword from The School in the Cloud, written by a class of seven-year-old students, serves as an example of what students can do in a self-organised learning environment (SOLE).
By helping leaders focus on impactful goals, coaches demonstrate how leaders can become better coaches for their assistant principals, building an overall stronger school community. Watch Peter DeWitt, author of Coach It Further, as he uses a unique case study approach to guide participants through the coaching process.
Use this tool from The Novice Advantage by Jonathan Eckert to think through your PLN and how you can make it even better.eckert_the_novice_advantage_reflection_sheet.pdf
Using this Formative Tracking Sheet from Swanson and Ferguson’s Unleashing Student Superpowers, your students can self-assess their progress across any lesson. (K-12)
"Zip, Zap, Zop" is a classic simple warm-up game, featured in Mathematical Argumentation in Middle School, that helps students understand that it is OK to make mistakes, speak so that everyone can hear, and pay close attention to one another.
This blog post from Victoria Romero, one of the authors of Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences, discusses how teachers can better understand stuggling students in this "new normal".