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When I taught fourth-grade science in July 2020, I discovered the classroom textbooks had copyright dates of 1992, almost two decades before my students were born! This realization led to the inevitable question: “Is this information still current, or has science changed?” The short...
August brings a lot of excitement, as well as anticipation. Accountability rates are officially released in August, on what is, for many, the first...
Response to Intervention, otherwise known as RTI, is a critical and multi-tier way of identifying and supporting students with behavior or learning...
Let’s be honest, it’s been a really hard year for most of us, and an exceptionally hard school year for educators. Educators have been on the...
Educators know the difficulties of the summer slide⏤the phenomenon where students lose significant gains in math and reading over the summer months...
In our unusual school year, teachers and administrators have more data to track and analyze than ever before. With virtual, face-to-face...
COVID-19 has changed the way teachers around the world are teaching. In Texas we’ve seen a rise in both remote learning and blended learning, with...
This morning I woke up, turned on the pre-loaded coffee maker, splashed water on my face, brushed my teeth, put on my exercise clothes, arranged the...
Hi there, friends. In the previous blog about setting up your classroom during Covid-19, we explored how to use floor tape to increase student...
Remote learning is the new norm for fall instruction, and with this new norm there’s going to be some growing pains. We’ve previously...
