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Teaching Tips & Tricks, Sponsors & Supporters

May 9, 2018

Getty Unshuttered: A new photo community for teens to build photography skills and tell their stories, their way
Do you have any students who are passionate about taking photos, or are all about curating the perfect Instagram feed? Photography is such a great medium for young people to express their creativity, whether it’s for the yearbook, social media, or a personal project. And now, the Getty Museum has...

By Angela Watson

Founder and Writer

Teaching Tips & Tricks, Sponsors & Supporters

Oct 5, 2016

New free app, games, and lessons for Fire Prevention Month
This post is sponsored by the National Fire Protection Association and Sparky.org to raise awareness about fire safety. National Fire Prevention Week this year falls on October 9th-15th, and I recently learned about some terrific free resources  you can use to help teach PreK-5th grade students valuable fire safety skills. For many years,...

By Angela Watson

Founder and Writer

Teaching Tips & Tricks, Sponsors & Supporters

Jan 20, 2016

Cloudschool: a free LMS that makes it easier to plan and teach lessons
Imagine how much time you could save if you had a way to create, document, share, and present your lessons from a single place. That is exactly what Cloudschool offers. Cloudschool is a FREE personal learning management system (LMS) that aims to unburden teachers by combining the tasks of lesson planning and lesson delivery on one...

By Angela Watson

Founder and Writer

Classroom Management, Education Trends, Productivity Strategies, Sponsors & Supporters, Truth for Teachers Collective

Mar 20, 2022

3 practices to give you more one-on-one time with students
Finally — a sustainable model for self-paced learning and mastery-based grading! If you feel like you never have enough time to truly differentiate or personalize learning, try the approach by the Modern Classrooms Project approach. I’m interviewing co-founder Kareem Farah about three strategies that you can experiment with integrating into...

By Angela Watson

Founder and Writer

Education Trends, Teaching Tips & Tricks, Podcast Articles, Sponsors & Supporters

Mar 21, 2021

How to use podcasts in the classroom as a tool for equity and differentiation (with Listenwise)
Audio is a powerful tool for equity and differentiation, because most kids have a much higher listening comprehension level than reading comprehension. You can bring authentic stories and primary sources to your students via audio, helping to build empathy and personalize information that might be difficult to connect with through...

By Angela Watson

Founder and Writer

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