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How can school leaders and superintendents help with virtual learning? There is no return to the way things used to be before COVID-19. But we can take the hardships that districts experienced and move towards a better tomorrow. We’ve rounded up a few ideas that schools can implement to help with virtual learning. Each tip below aims to increase student learning and improve job quality for teachers. Understand old leadership methods might not work This

Stress-free test prep: Have a gameplan for test prep in your classroom Do you dread the end of the year when teachers typically test prep for standardized tests? It’s the worst. After a long year, both teachers and students are fatigued, and spring fever seems to hit hard. Your end of the school year does not have to feel this way if test prep occurs consistently throughout the year. There’s no need to stop instruction

6 Ideas for Bell Work to Get Your Students Ready for the Virginia SOL Testing Standard Of Learning (SOL) assessments can be a stressful time for students. Educators want to encourage and uplift their students in any way they can. Creative and intentional bell work is an excellent opportunity to get students in the right mindset for successful Virginia SOL testing. What is the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) assessment? The Virginia SOLs are the

Learning Loss: What can you do for student learning loss right now? Learning loss is a hot topic in education. This is for a good reason. As students return to school, teachers realize that they are not getting students who are coming into their classes as prepared. It can be a confusing set of priorities to juggle. On the one hand, teachers are experts at adjusting and meeting students where they are. But on the

How to use technology to prepare for the 2023 Texas STAAR Test The 2023 Texas STAAR Test will be different than in years past. House Bill 3906 set a full redesign of the annual Texas standardized test into motion.  One of the primary initiatives of the redesign is a move toward the electronic administration of all assessments. Given that the Texas STAAR Test 2023 is moving to online delivery, thereby embracing electronic tools for administering

Tutoring for Learning Loss: Strategies to Regain Student Achievement Tutoring is one of the best strategies to employ when students fall behind. But how do you do it for large groups of students who have experienced learning loss due to the pandemic? We will walk you through strategies for structuring tutoring programs that work and effective tutoring strategies. How has COVID affected learning? It’s normal for students to experience lags in learning progress after periods

Teacher Burnout and How Administrators Can Help Look at the news, and you’re bound to hear about “The Great Resignation.” This phenomenon is happening in education. How could it not? All the making of teacher burnout has been brewing over the last few years: overworked (check!), the stress in the workplace (check!), less respect (check!), low pay (check!), and the list goes on. The key to teacher burnout is recognizing the signs before it happens

10 Tips for Administrators to Use Classwork.com in Your School Tips for Administrators Classwork.com is the premier tool for creating online worksheets and digital assignments and Tips for Administrators. Using our program is effortless. Start with the activity that you want to digitize. Upload it into the Classwork.com system. Then this assignment becomes the background for your online assignment. Put questions anywhere on the document. Classwork.com is more flexible and intuitive than Google Forms and

10 ways to use TeacherMade in the classroom Reclaim your nights and weekends TeacherMade is the all-in-one app that converts PDFs and other files into interactive digital activities. Thousands of teachers love TeacherMade because it saves them time doing tasks they already do in the classroom: creating assignments, copying assignments, collecting papers, and grading. Teachers use TeacherMade for: Worksheets Formative assessment Assessment Bellringers Exit tickets Homework AND MORE! How can you use TeacherMade in your