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Transform Your Google Calendar into a Digital Planner

Catlin Tucker

I enjoyed the tactile experience of writing down my events, notes to myself, and lesson ideas. Provides a place to write notes, but lesson needs are kept separately in a binder or in separate files on a computer. The level of detail may be limited by a lack of space to write detailed notes. For years, I used a daily planner.

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Avoid the One-Size-Fits-All Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Many middle school and high school teachers feel immense pressure to move quickly through the curriculum. Group 2 worked collaboratively to create a timeline of John Steinbeck’s life and discussed which events impacted his writing of the novel. At the secondary level scenes like this are less frequent.

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How an AI-Powered Tool Accelerated Student Writing

Edsurge

For English Language Arts (ELA) teachers, AI-powered writing tools help to provide immediate feedback, guiding students through the writing process and fostering a more personalized approach to learning. So, introducing AI was relatively easy because my students were used to the writing process and going through revisions.

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The 3 superpowers of collaborative nonfiction writing

eSchool News

Kids love to tell and share stories, but writing nonfiction is different, because they have to take concepts or events and not only understand them, but convey that information in writing. They need to convey their understanding of concepts in writing, and teachers must help students build writing skills.

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Provide Peer Support and Combat Social Isolation with After School Pairings and Groupings

Catlin Tucker

I invited Rabbi Elchanan Poupko , a middle school teacher, to write a guest blog and share a strategy for pairing and grouping students for after school work. Growing up, once we left school at the end of the day, it was over. We did not connect with our teachers or school friends unless we chose to.

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How Social Media Can Help Teach Good Writing

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I think students are reading and writing more than ever. Is it quality writing? I think students are reading and writing more than ever,” says Jeremy Hyler, an eighth-grade English teacher at Fulton Middle School in Michigan. “Is Is it quality writing? Not all the time. Not all the time.” It’s a process.

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4 ways I make learning fun in the classroom

eSchool News

As a middle school Spanish teacher, my #1 goal is to have my students fall in love with learning a language the way I did in middle school. When learning a second language, it’s important to teach reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Some teachers use Tic Tac Toe sheets for weekly homework assignments.