April 2020

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Dear Teacher, I was a little nervous about writing this letter. I don’t want to offend anyone. I don’t want to make people feel bad. I don’t want mean hate mail. I’m writing this because I love teachers and I have a huge heart for serving the teaching community. I hope you know...

Source: A Short Story About Starting Online Learning: The Zooming Owl | The Techie Teacher®

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Add these morning meeting Google Slides to your distance learning collection. Another free resource from The Curriculum Corner. Source: Morning Meeting Google Slides

Last week I received lots of questions about making online activities with PDFs. In short, a lot of people seem to be looking for ways to digitize worksheets for students to complete online. There … Source: Creating Online Activities With Fillable PDFs and More

Summary of Unit of Work: Help your students/child have a good understanding of times tables without rote learning. Times Tables!  Who remembers standing in front of the class having times tables races or rote learning (repeatedly saying) 1 x 4 is 4, 2 x 4 is 8, 3 x 4 is 12?...

Summary of Lesson Plan: Procedure Pizza Fractions: students will make a pizza, creating a procedure of steps and demonstrating their understanding of fractions. This lesson is in a distance learning format (at home) but could also be completed in a school setting. As students...

Editor’s note: This blog post was first published by Partnership Schools. Last week we shared our approach to keeping older students deeply engaged with great texts at home. At the same time, we know that broad “code knowledge”—the understanding of how to decode written language...

Schools are closed. Minds are wide open. Source: Wide Open School