More Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer
Summer is a great time to reset your personal pedagogy to an education-friendly mindset and catch up on what’s been changing in the ed world while you were teaching eight…
Supporting Effective Group Work in Middle School Classes
By Laurie Miller Hornik Group work has become a regular practice in many middle school classrooms, and plenty of research shows it should be. According to Washington St. Louis University…
TEDx Talk – Education Reimagined: Student-led Learning
Do you feel like our current approach to teaching and learning is working for either teachers or students? If you answered, “no,” we are on the same page. This belief…
24 Online Resources About Economics
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8…
Why Your School Needs an Instructional Framework
By Matt Renwick If you want to see long term change in your school, you cannot mandate it. Teachers do not want to be told how to conduct their work…
13 AI Detectors and 11 Plagiarism Detectors
Here are popular online resources to teach about AI detection and Plagiarism detection: AI Detector Click here for updates to this list: AI Content Detector–from Crossplag AI Text Classifier–from the…
Teaching Beyond the Timeline: Engaging in Thematic History
Teaching Beyond the Timeline: Engaging Students in Thematic History By China Harvey and Lisa Herzig(Heinemann, 2024 – Learn more) Reviewed by Sarah Cooper Many pedagogical books aim to reach “both…
25 of Our Best Posts for New MS Teachers
For well over a decade MiddleWeb has shared helpful ideas for new teachers. In this post we’ve selected recent articles along with several classics that might be MOST useful before…
Virtual Coaching Videos: Answering Your Questions
I am excited to announce the launch of a new video series on YouTube called “Virtual Coaching.” I have the privilege of working with thousands of educators every year who…
Teaching Our Students How to Be Text-Savvy
In her recent article 5 Questions to Help Kids Become Critical Readers, ELA teacher, author, NBCT and Pennsylvania TOY Marilyn Pryle describes how standardized testing has slowly erased the “wonder…