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Teaching Tips & Tricks Newsletter

Teachers are busy people

When you’re juggling multiple roles every day, finding extra time to innovate learning for your students can be challenging to say the least.

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Teaching Tips & Tricks Newsletter

In these emails, we’ll periodically send you tips & tricks that are QUICK and EASY to implement in your classroom that can have a big impact on student learning. 

Sometimes, we'll send short written tips from our professional learning team.

Other times, you'll receive brief video recordings from experts & educators.

These tips & tricks will always take less than 5 minutes to digest.

If you’re looking for simple strategies to improve your remote & blended teaching, you’ve come to the right place!

TEACHING TIPS & TRICKS

The Power of the 5:1 Ratio: How Fostering Positive Interactions Can Transform Student Learning

The 5:1 ratio has completely changed my thinking about interactions in the classroom. It all started with a question about grading. After all, part of our jobs as teachers is to provide corrective feedback to help students grow. The 5:1 ratio helps to ensure that students can receive this feedback effectively. More importantly, however, it can help us be intentional about creating a classroom environment that centers our humanity.

Time for Teachers: Self-Assessment with Community Support as Individual Solutions

Educators often cite a lack of time as one of their most significant stressors. How can we help teachers find the balance necessary to feel satisfied in their jobs and meet their social and emotional needs? This third post in the Time for Teachers blog series will discuss the importance of a self-assessment in addressing individual problems and solutions teachers face. This is not to say the onus of addressing challenges should fall squarely on the shoulders of individual teachers. Teachers need a community of practice and support to help them identify problems they might face individually that could benefit from solutions that come from consulting with colleagues.

Time for Teachers: Agile Meetings and Short Pulse Surveys as Systemic Solutions

Educators often cite a lack of time as one of their most significant stressors. How can we help teachers find the balance necessary to feel satisfied in their jobs and meet their social and emotional needs? This second post in the Time for Teachers blog series will discuss two possible solutions that can help all educators save time while addressing needs to serve students and communities: agile meetings and short pulse surveys.
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Tips and Tricks for Communicating with Parents and Students

During this time of remote learning, what are some best practices in the ways you communicate with your students and their parents? In this webinar, we’ll explore examples and tips for communication, specific tools and resources to aid this process, and lessons learned from applying these practices.

You Can Do This! Transitioning to Remote Teaching & Learning

Are you feeling overwhelmed about transitioning your classroom into a remote learning environment? In this webinar, we share simple strategies for getting started, communicating with students and parents, finding and delivering content, building relationships, and designing assessments. You can do this!

LMS Selection and Implementation: Best Practices

What factors should schools and districts consider when selecting a learning management system (LMS)? What are the key processes that you should follow? What challenges and opportunities exist within the process? Where should you start?

Unpacking Innovation… One Step at a Time!​

Have you checked out our blog and the Digital Backpack podcast yet? On our blog, we do a lot of writing on the future of learning and share even more tips & tricks for teachers. In the Digital Backpack podcast, Jeff Gerlach interviews both Michigan educators and national experts to dig deeper into pressing issues in education. Check them out & subscribe today to get our latest content delivered to your inbox every Thursday!

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