Epic offers free activity calendars
Epic is an online digital library that is free for educators but a paid service for families. Without an account they offer free monthly activity calendars.
Epic is an online digital library that is free for educators but a paid service for families. Without an account they offer free monthly activity calendars.
But giving my students choice and allowing them to being curious learners was hard work. In fact, sometimes I was still really ineffective at guiding the learning that was taking place in my classroom. I tried many different project-based learning frameworks, embraced the inquiry cycle, and tweaked my own idea of how to structure this…
Source: Health icons I love me some free icons, and Health icons has a ton! Don’t let the name fool you, because although there are a lot of icons that involve medical items, there are also a ton of icons for other things. Here are some of the health icons: But there are also: And…
A Principal’s Reflections: Waving Goodbye to Drive-By PD There has been a great deal of knocks on professional development as of late and rightfully so. More often than not, professional development is something that is done to educators as opposed to an experience that they truly value for growth. For many, district professional development is…
One of the arguments against blogging is the lack of time. I know this feeling all too well as I try to produce quality content. A tool that I’ve found helpful is an editorial calendar. What is an editorial calendar? An editorial calendar allows you to organize your blog posts in advance, allowing you to…
Last week I attened the ITIP Ohio Google Summit. One of the sessions I attended was Getting Google-y in K-2 Reading presented by Jazmine Monroe and Becky McDonald. One of their examples was a Google Sheet that was formatting for Word Mapping, using conditional formatting to reflect correct and incorrect answers. I thought this was…
Unsplash is another site for free to use photos. Like LibreStock, these photos are licensesd under Create Commons 0, which means they are free to use for any use, including commercial use. The site couldn’t be simpler to use, you type your search term into the site and it returns pictures related to the term. So,…