December 1, 2025
December 1, 2025
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Use the "Help me schedule" feature to easily set up a meeting time over email
Use the "Help me schedule" feature to easily set up a meeting time over email
What’s Changing
Scheduling meetings with families or staff just got easier. The new Gemini-powered “Help me schedule” feature in Gmail suggests meeting times based on your calendar and email context.
When coordinating a conference or check-in, click 'Help me schedule' to view recommended time slots that you can edit and insert into your message. Once the other person chooses a time, a Calendar invite is automatically created for both of you.
Use the "Manage Subscriptions" feature to easily unsubscribe from spam emails in one place!
Use the "Manage Subscriptions" feature to easily unsubscribe from spam emails in one place!
What it does
In Gmail, you can manage all your active email subscriptions in one place. When you unsubscribe from a sender in “Manage subscriptions,” Gmail unsubscribes you from all active mailing lists related to the sender.
Summary Salad
Summary Salad
🥗 What Summary Salad Is
🥗 What Summary Salad Is
Students “toss” together short, concise statements (the ingredients) to create a complete summary of a passage, concept, process, or unit of study. Each ingredient represents a key idea, term, or event that contributes to the overall understanding. The goal: mix main ideas without overwhelming “extra dressing” (unnecessary details).
🍅 Use Cases by Subject
🍅 Use Cases by Subject
ELA / Reading
ELA / Reading
Summarize a short story, article, or chapter using 3–5 “ingredients” (main idea sentences).
Create a “theme salad” by combining evidence and details that support a central message.
Partner activity: each student contributes one sentence, then they “toss” them together into a shared summary.
Science
Science
Summarize steps in a process (e.g., photosynthesis, the water cycle, Newton’s laws).
“Ingredient” cards represent key vocabulary or phases—students arrange them in logical order before writing the summary.
After a lab, summarize the procedure, results, and conclusion as a three-part salad.
Social Studies
Social Studies
Summarize causes and effects of historical events (e.g., “Revolutionary Salad”).
Group activity: each student writes one “ingredient” (key factor, event, or person) on a card; combine for a timeline-style summary.
Use to wrap up units, connecting key terms into one cohesive paragraph.
Math
Summarize the process for solving a type of problem (e.g., quadratic equations or converting fractions).
Each ingredient = a step in the solution pathway.
End-of-unit “recipe cards” help students recall and sequence operations.
Foreign Language
Foreign Language
Summarize a text, dialogue, or cultural reading in the target language.
Use as vocabulary review: each “ingredient” sentence includes a focus word or phrase.
Fine Arts / Electives
Fine Arts / Electives
Art or music: summarize the style, techniques, and influences of an artist or composer.
PE or Health: summarize rules of a sport, or steps for making healthy choices.
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