When teaching students face-to-face, my strategy for engagement is to use systematic and reflective strategies in tandem with interactive activities. This consistent practice helps build a collaborative culture, establish and maintain norms, and…

It's 2020, but we might as well be living in an Orwell-inspired novel set in the year 3000-and-something. I've never had 20/20 vision, but I don't need it to recognize how acutely unrecognizable the world has become. In fact, as I reflect over the…

I hate to break it to you, but I was a terrible student. Each day, I desperately waited for the final bell to ring so that I could be released from the confines of my stuffy, windowless classroom and run home to my guitar. It was no fault of the…

Now more than ever, educators need to ask, 'How do we know students are learning?' As assessment practices shift from more easily quantified in-class tests and quizzes to more project-based online work to prepare for hybrid or virtual learning, we…

It's back to school time again and this year looks NOTHING like we have ever seen before. As summer comes to a close teachers are preparing for that big first day of school. Only this year, for many of us, it's going to be in a virtual classroom.

Offer rather than order: Students should not simply be told that they will be receiving small group instruction; instead, the teacher should collaborate with students to leverage them as agents in their learning. Using effective self-assessment…