In this blog article we explain why AI and SchoolAI can be your new teaching assistant. We also share our exclusive video tutorial series to help you get started with using SchoolAI today!

5 times for grading essays faster while providing better feedback! These tips will help ELA teachers work smarter, not harder!

Free Music Substitute Lesson Plan (for a non-music sub). Teach meter with short, fun video clips, "script" for the teacher and movement activities for kids.

Teaching theme will be engaging for your students with videos! Find the 5 Best Videos for Teaching Theme in your ELA classroom.

Paper Bag Dramatics: A fun activity for Team Building and Developing Community. Here's an idea that can be used just about anywhere at any time. It encourages groups to solve problems, think creatively, and work as a team.

This summer, after attending a reading workshop, I've made it my goal to amp up and improve my guided reading and shared reading instruction. With this in

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Teaching students about the bystander effect is an IMPERATIVE part of any anti-bullying curriculum. Students need to understand the science behind being a bystander if they are going to be an "upstander." This NO PREP, print and go activity aligns with the video The Bystander Effect: The Science of Empathy. This 5 minute video reviews what the bystander effect is and shows it in action! This printable is a quick and easy resource to print out to have students take notes on during the video. Then, after watching the video and discussing, there is space for students to reflect on the information they learned that day. Using this video and reflection is a quick and easy lesson in empathy that will have a huge impact on your students will little prep from you! Reminder: A link to the video is included in this description, NOT in the product!

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Until recently, the tools to create professional-looking videos were out of the hands of most regular folks. But those days are over.

Great ideas for encouraging excellent pencil grip plus videos of pencil grip songs you can use and a free song poster!

I'm going to share a differentiated lesson plan from start to finish. In the article Begin with the Highest Level Learner in Mind I promised that I would share the process, and here it is.

This illustration helps explain the underlying dynamics and process of how childhood pain (roots) leads to a faulty sense of self, which in turn can lead to some form of dependency to cope with that pain, leading to problems to adulthood (fruit).

Are you looking for a resource to introduce your students to press releases, and help them create their own? Look no further! This lesson breaks down what a press release is and how to create one. This resource also includes a video and article to teach students the formatting of press releases, as ...

As we have pointed elsewhere, ' in a digitally focused world, education is getting more and more digitized pushing us, teachers and educators, to re-conceptualize what it really means to be a teacher in the 21st century. Whether you are a technological determinist or a digital instrumentalist, technology has become an essential force shaping much of our teaching and pedagogy. It has also placed a number of demands and exigencies on us and to meet these exigencies we need to develop a set of key digital skills '. The visual below, based on a chart we shared in the past, features what we believe are some of the fundamental digital skills every 21st century teacher should possess. We invite you to check it out and share with us your feedback in our Facebook page. Feel free to download, print, or share the visual the way you want provided you credit our blog as the source.

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54321 Grounding - An amazing coping skill for kids and teens!

Teach your students all about the skeletal system with this fun mini unit. Your students will love the cut and paste skeleton craft!

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These 10 science Youtube Channels offer high quality and engaging science videos. Use them to keep students excited and engaged in their learning.

Metacognition means "thinking about one's own thinking", "higher –order cognition about cognition", "knowledge about knowledge"

Looking for a new and creative way of having your students learn a new topic or reinforce skills? Breakouts are a great way to make content more engaging and encourage cooperation among students. Learn more about creating your own breakout activities, also known as Escape Room games, and get ideas on how to lead students to a URL, clue, or code using text, questions, visuals, articles, videos, or songs.

Prepare your students for successful oral presentations by identifying the

The world’s weirdest school year has arrived and I’m ready to take you on a quick tour through my work-from-home classroom. A few things have changed since the spring, and that’s because the educational landscape has also changed. Here’s a peek into my classroom setup for the 2020-21 school year.

It's easy to get stuck using the same basic tools, but these 5 Lightroom tricks will help you to take your editing game to the next level.

Powtoon is an online presentation tool that enables you and your students to create professional-quality animated videos in just minutes. All you need is an internet connection, a microphone, and a desktop or laptop computer.

Story elements are much more than the boring old plot line.

Wish you could learn faster? Whether you’re learning Spanish, a new instrument, or a new sport, we could all benefit from accelerated learning. But the

As a part of my human body systems unit, my students do web-based research on the digestive, circulatory, skeletal, muscular, respiratory, nervous, and cardiovascular systems. Here are my favorite websites that enable students to engage with videos and interactives, zoom in to learn more about speci

We’ve all had that teacher at some point in our lives. It can be really difficult to determine what makes a teacher remarkable.