Some Thoughts on Teachers Crying in the Classroom 17Mar2024 by Jennifer Gonzalez Crying in front of your students can really shake you up. Here are some ideas that might help.
Why Students Give You the Blank Stare, and What to Do About It 3Mar2024 by Blake Harvard You teach your heart out. Really just knock it out of the park. Then you ask a question students should know the answer to … and nothing. What’s going on?
Building Better Collaboration Between Families and Schools 18Feb2024 by Jennifer Gonzalez If your current efforts to connect with families aren’t working as well as you’d like, it may be time to try a more collaborative approach.
How a Portrait Project Showed Teachers Through a Whole New Lens 4Feb2024 by Dan Tricarico Teachers have more nuances and are more complex than the professional, straightforward personas we tend to project in the classroom.
Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do? 21Jan2024 by Jennifer Borgioli Binis When working to solve the problems created by testing, it helps to move away from all-or-nothing thinking and towards the idea of reducing harm.
8 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2024 10Jan2024 by Jennifer Gonzalez Three AI teacher assistants, a curated collection of math activities, a website-building curriculum, a site for helping students change the world, and more.
How to Help Students Without Being a Savior 10Dec2023 by Jennifer Gonzalez Trying to meet big student needs on your own is ultimately not that helpful to the student. Here’s how to shift your approach.
Two Books to Help You Hold Healthy Classroom Conversations About Race 12Nov2023 by Jennifer Gonzalez Our classrooms can be spaces where we learn to have conversations about challenging topics with respect, curiosity, and kindness.
Your Teachers Need a Win 22Oct2023 by Jennifer Gonzalez The smallest bit of praise can give a person enough confidence, enough of a dopamine hit, to keep going.