Instructional Strategies

This slide deck teaches you how to create a choice board of purposeful, standards-based evergreen activities for early finishers. Evergreen content is continually relevant, current, and doesn't go out of date.

Ditch the static Google Doc! Learn how HyperDocs turn lessons into interactive journeys, sparking student curiosity and creativity through links, "smart canvas" features, and engaging activities. Craft blended lessons that put students in the driver's seat, fostering inquiry and deeper understanding.

Elevate your content with engaging video lessons! This course unlocks the power of video tools like FlipGrid and Screencastify to enhance understanding, capture attention, and empower student voices through purposeful video creation. Dive in and learn how to create dynamic micro-lessons that bring your curriculum to life!

Nearpod and Renaissance's merger allows teachers to connect the data from Renaissance to the pre-made lessons and activities in Nearpod. This slide deck will help you create a data-driven, interactive toolbox to personalize learning and boost student growth.

This course explores the SAMR framework, categorizing technology integration into Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition, offering insights into assessing and transforming lessons. 

Learning menus serve as an excellent method to integrate student choice and differentiate learning, and with tools like G Suite for Education, crafting interactive and dynamic digital menus becomes effortlessly engaging, making digital differentiation a seamless approach to cater to all learners.

Join this course and explore two tools (Screencastify and Video Quizzes from Discovery Education) that allow teachers to create video assessments. With these options, teachers can make engaging, personalized assessments that quickly and accurately identify each student’s strengths and areas for improvement. 

Creating sketchnotes, a personal, visual story in response to a speaker, text, or other form of content, is a powerful way to engage your students while helping them to retain information.  We will learn how to use a variety of apps to create beautiful, digital sketchnotes.  

Inspired by Fisher, Frey & Hattie, this course equips teachers with strategies to build strong student connections in virtual/hybrid environments, covering aspects like collaboration, critical thinking, and fostering connection, all with practical resources and templates.

Technology can help accelerate phonics acquisition, increase vocabulary, improve reading comprehension skills, and encourage language development. There are a wide range of resources available to help your multilingual learners learn English, increase their confidence, and learn new technologies while developing 21st-century skills along the way.

Level up your student projects with stunning, editable social media templates designed for schools!  CanvaEdu's locked positions and image placeholders make it easy to create professional-looking content, perfect for students and teachers alike. 

Embark on a journey down the GRADE DIVIDE! This course will pave the way for a mind shift as we examine the wedge between formative assessments and assessment FOR learning. Using our favorite EdTech tools, we'll explore the "why" behind a mind shift in digital assessments and showcase some sample student nontraditional assessment products.

This course will explore two ed tech tools (Nearpod and Pear Deck) that allow teachers to create instructor-led or student-paced interactive lessons. Perfect for boosting engagement - this duo of tools will also provide teachers with instant data and analytics to help improve teaching and reach every student in your classroom!