Learning Celebration Reflections : Part Deux (It's not just for AP!) by Dan Saken Last week I wrote a blog about how I've chang...

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...

By Kristen Gierman  As teachers, we are constantly reflecting.  But as the semester winds down, we devote a particular attention to grade...

By Kim Miklusak This year I have decided to flip the order of how we access The Great Gatsby .  In the past we have read texts that center...

By: Rachel Barry In Illinois, we switched from the ACT to the SAT as our standardized test.  The math department's digital curricula w...

By Kim Miklusak This year my co-worker Matt Snow and I decided to try something different when it comes to how we attack the different es...

By Mark Heintz A year ago I wrote about the changes that were going to be implemented for the 2015-2016 school year for human geography.  ...

By Mark Heintz I have tried many different ways to make reviewing effective.  In the last few weeks in AP World I try to give as many prac...

By Mark Heintz Over the summer, I read David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell. One of ...

By Sandra Lee It’s definitely challenging teaching a Shakespeare text to a class with such diverse needs and demands. The graphic novel...

by Kirsten Fletcher Where would we be in this profession if we didn't have colleagues who shared great ideas? I saw this on Twitter th...

By: Kim Miklusak  & Rachel Barry This blog is written by both Kim (who was observed) and Rachel (who observed Kim) ...

By: Rachel Barry I believe that the most important skill to be taught in any mathematics curricula is critical thinking.   A student s...

By Kim Miklusak Last year I read this blog post by Kylene Beers.   I definitely recommend taking a moment to read and reflect upon it.  In...

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