By Jackie Figliulo  Whether asking students to engage with class-assigned texts or books of their choosing during independent re...

By Mark Heintz I have been going around school stopping students at random to hear what they feel teacher's do that impacts their l...

By Mark Heintz This semester I put more emphasis on students reading to gain an understanding of the content and writing to prove their un...

Written by Quinn Loch A couple weeks ago I was inspired by a review activity that AP environmental science (APES) students did at Prospect...

By Mark Heintz I recently observed Maura Brown and her orchestra class.  It was amazing! Maura told me that her starting routine is comm...

By Mark Heintz This post is on the power of building background knowledge through the use of the website: If It Were My Home. I stumbled...

By Mark Heintz The more I teach, the longer it takes me to get through the material.  In my first few years of teaching, I focused on co...

Period 5 Christina Barnum invited us into her freshmen biology class.  They used Socrative as a self-assessment tool before starting a lab...

By Mark Heintz I have fallen in love!  My love is the Schoology quiz bank feature.  I teach sophomores world history, so I categorized ...

By Mark Heintz The Elk Grove freshmen human geography team added a document based question curriculum to achieve higher level thinking sk...

By: Rachel Barry I don't know about you, but I have a few students who get frustrated in their seats.  I can't blame them.  I love...