I am so honored to be teaming up GoNoOdle to help them promote their new features on GoNoOdle Plus. I have been a self-proclaimed "GoNoOdle Groupie" since 2014, and I am so honored to continue to use GoNoOdle with my 5th graders daily. Yes, GoNoOdle is awesome sauce, but did you know that GoNoOdle PLUS has a lot of amazing features that make classroom learning so much fun! Check out this video to learn more! GoNoodle Plus Video - Schools from GoNoodle on Vimeo. GoNoodle Plus is the most academically comprehensive version of GoNoodle. It offers 100s of ways to deepen student learning with additional curricular videos, learning games, and printable activities! With GoNoodle Plus, you will have access to the follow exclusive GoNoodle Plus features: • Suite of Interactive Learning Games: Move and play while practicing math, ELA, science, social studies and more! • Question Sets: Personalize learning games with your own custom question sets ...
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Diverse Books for a Diverse World
Two years ago, I had a teacher friend make a post on social media challenging teachers to take an honest look/walk-through their classroom library and look for books that offered diversity among the characters, discussed difficult topics, or highlighted individuals who represented specific races and cultures. I took on the challenge and quickly realized that the books in our classroom library were severely lacking any sense of diversity, and I took action. I began researching about books that would help our students navigate hard topics, talk about diverse issues, inspire great thinking and writing, spark creativity, and create a reading community in the classroom. As teachers, I believe that it is feverishly important that we acknowledge and reflect on the important role that picture books, chapter books, and nonfictional resources can and will play in our students' lives. I feel passionate about helping students ignite a desire for reading and foster a love for ...
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Accountable Talk Accountable Talk is "talk that is meaningful, respectful, and mutually beneficial to both speaker and listener. It stimulates higher-order thinking which, in turn, helps students to learn, reflect on their learning and communicate their knowledge and understanding."- Education Bureau of Hong Kong A few years ago, the district that I teach in really started to focus on the importance of student-led conversation and the power that reflecting on and communicating one's individual learning can actually have on individual and peer learning experiences. When accountable talk was first introduced to me, I immediately fell in love with what it represented-student ownership. Teachers are really good at talking. Talking means we are the ones in control. However, when students take over the conversation, they are the ones in control of their learning experiences, and that is something that I have been so proud to support and watch unfold in our classroom over the past few ...
