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Blogs
Teaching Tips, In the News
Did you know April is Occupational Therapy Month?
1 minute
Teaching Tips, Readiness
In order for children to write fluently, they have to have a good grip. Grip needs to be explicitly taught when children are first holding pencils and crayons. It can be remediated in later grades, but it’s best to build good habits from the start.
6 minutes
Teaching Tips, Multisensory Learning
Happy first day of spring! After being cooped up indoors all winter, your students probably can’t wait to get outside and clock some time outdoors
1 minute
Readiness, Announcements
Answering this question requires an assessment of their understanding of the most important foundation skills, such as capital letter formation, colors, numbers, words, and shapes.
3 minutes
Edtech, In the News
After spending a few days in sunny Florida at FETC, we left inspired not only by the weather, but by all the exciting edtech options that were discussed in sessions and by our conversations with energetic educators using technology in their classrooms around the country.
2 min
Multisensory Learning, Edtech
We’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about student online test results lately.
2 min
Teaching Tips, Edtech
Instead of focusing on keyboarding drills, let’s make sure we first start with developing the necessary keyboarding skills.
4 minutes
Announcements
Women’s History Month is an exciting, monthlong celebration that is celebrated in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia to commemorate women and their contributions to society.
2 minutes
Home Connection
Maybe it’s a new email from your principal, maybe a parent is getting in touch through your school app to schedule a conference, or maybe it’s that darn group chat about brunch and you are already 50 messages deep and have no idea how to catch up at this point.
3 minutes