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...

By: Dan Saken There is such a feeling of finality once students take the AP test in a given class, for both students and teachers.   So h...

by Katie Winstead This past Thursday, several teachers from our special education department sat in a ThinkCERCA training to learn ways...

By Mark Heintz Higher level thinking in May? You bet! At the end of my lesson on Monday, students wrote four impacts of the Neolithic Revo...

By Mark Heintz A few weeks ago, Linda Ashida posted on Katie Owen's innovative idea of sharing Notability notes to students.   You ca...

By Mark Heintz The strategy below is a post reading strategy that is easy to implement and gets a lot out of the students.  I have posted ...

By Mark Heintz Over the past week I have been teaching my students the Atlantic Revolutions.  I thought they were understanding most of th...

By Mark Heintz A few weeks ago  @MsRachelBarry  posted how to create a Schoology checklist.  If you want to learn how to create a checklis...

By Mark Heintz In history, students typically do not have a lot of direct background knowledge on a subject.  One way to build b...

I start my AP World History class almost every day with a warm up.   I like the routine of starting off class with the students diving righ...