Best Practices

This year, there will be "Best Practice" sessions each month led by the HS Instructional Coaches. For you reference, these presentations will be posted below after each session occurs.

Best Practices / Non-Negotiable Chart (latest version, view-only)

Best Practices / Non-Negotiable Chart (make a copy & customize)

Warm Ups / Bell Ringers

Warm-Ups & bell ringers

Warm-Ups can be used to practice skills, set a productive tone, and gather formative feedback. Learn several approaches and tools for your classroom repertoire.

Surveying & Polling - Oct 10

Surveying & Polling

Learn high-tech, low-tech & no-tech options for polling in your classroom---a great way to get immediate formative feedback and activate reluctant learners.

Annotation Tools

Annotating A Text

Discover 4 tools that allow students to annotate (or take notes on top of) texts, websites, PDF's and even videos! Get them to think more carefully about what they're reading or viewing.

More Ways to Demonstrate Learning 1

Multimedia creators

Discover two multimedia tools (Adobe Spark & Loom) which will enable your students to demonstrate learning in deep and engaging ways.

More Ways to Demonstrate Learning 2

Crowdsourcing

Learn how to use two electronic tools to crowdsource a lesson, turning students into teachers and answering the question: "What am I doing for students that they could be doing for themselves?"