-by Dan Jones- Close your eyes, and imagine. Imagine what you want your school year to be. Imagine the best school year you could have. I need you to actually to see it. What do you want your classroom to look like? What do you see your students doing? What do you see yourself doing […]

-by Jon Bergmann- Too often, the first day of school is filled with us teachers sharing about class expectations and syllabi.  Imagine being a student who has to sit through seven or eight of these presentations. Instead of sharing your syllabi on the first day, what if you skipped the syllabi and used...

-by Terra Graves- As we all start thinking about heading “Back to School,” one of the first things that popped into my head was lesson planning. I had just finished the Lesson Planning Specialist Certification course, and all of the awesome planning templates shared by the experts started me thinking,...