Improving Your Practice

Teacher Self-Paced PL Course Checklist 2020

Creating an Equitable Classroom

Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools

A conversation with Bettina Love, Gholdy Muhammad, Dena Simmons and Brian Jones about abolitionist teaching and antiracist education.

How to Be an Antiracist Educator, by Dena Simmons

ASCD Publication, October 2019

Best Practices In Action

Effective Delivery of Online Instruction Presentation -8.3.2020

*Coming soon - 1st grade math, writing, word study from WP (Slide Deck)

Dissolving the Screen

https://vimeo.com/429754752 (Montage)

Fostering Engagement

https://www.edutopia.org/video/keeping-students-engaged-digital-learning (edutopia tips for engagement)

Morning Meeting Announcement

Checking on Whether Students have Viewed Documents

https://drive.google.com/file/d/194lburABKgAw8voVRgv3wTDLnxJze5A6/view?usp=sharing,%20

Creating Small Groups in Google Classroom

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M5IDvg9vCYPJCD828E7QeIdnCGnUjKji/view?usp=sharing,%20

How to Create a Hyperdoc

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FjvcBPdoyZ_oVowt3-XD-gy_iq9i0vZs/view?usp=sharing,%20

Using Draftback to Spot Plagarism

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HE028pczv0fG9K9Y5CsAYL735spfWzCk/view?usp=sharing,%20

Creating a Google Meet Code

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PpjUd-BkV_k_m7i6CxtJXUWaIUIiSX5I/view?usp=sharing,%20

5E's Model for Virtual Lessons: Catlin Tucker has a good explanation and videos for each of the steps.

Blog Posts

"Dissolving the Screen" in Ben Esser's Online Classroom - Teach Like a ChampionIn our work supporting remote teaching, we’ve been using the term Dissolve the Screen to describe one of the key tools we see successful teachers using. To “dissolve the screen” is to heighten students’ awareness of the back-and-forth exchange that still exists between their teacher and themselves so they feel it more strongly. To connect this...

Dissolving the screen

Is Reading Aloud Relevant in an Online Classroom? Yes! These Videos Prove It. - Teach Like a ChampionAs many of you know, Read Alouds have always been a crucial part of our curriculum and literacy work. Reading aloud breathes life into a text, and when a text comes to life it doesn’t just connect students to the act of reading, it connects them to one another. The words come alive; we share a...

Checking For Understanding Online with Eric Snider - Teach Like a ChampionChecking for Understanding is one of the biggest challenges in teaching; online you can multiply that tenfold. It’s like trying to assess how well your class is doing while looking in through the keyhole. That’s why I found this video of Eric Snider’s so profound. He’s teaching Rita Williams-Garcia’s One Crazy Summer (adapting the book unit...

(A)synchrony In Action: Eric Snider's Hybrid Lesson - Teach Like a ChampionBy now most people are familiar with the terms synchronous and asynchronous… and with the benefits and limitations of each type of online teaching. Synchronous teaching lets us check for understanding, build habits of engagement and accountability, and gives us the chance to build connections with students. But it’s limited in the depth of the work...