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Our team of Professional Learning Specialists has curated some of their favorite resources to foster creativity and innovation that can be directly applied to your classroom.
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This section offers resources from sessions we have facilitated to enhance your teaching, including AI tools for streamlining lesson planning, a template for reflecting on and improving classroom dynamics, and UDL strategies to engage students by fostering autonomy, setting goals, and supporting emotional regulation.
This guide introduces AI tools to streamline your teaching. Learn how to use Diffit to organize content and adjust student reading levels, EduAide to generate engaging activities like cooperative learning or gamification, and LLM Chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT) to create notes, outlines, and summaries from your instructional materials. Each tool is easy to use and customizable, helping you save time and enhance your classroom experience.
This resource helps teachers reflect on their teaching practices and envision their ideal classroom experience. Through this structured reflection activity, teachers can outline actions, student interactions, and necessary routines to improve classroom dynamics. It’s a helpful tool for planning concrete steps to enhance teaching and create an engaging learning environment.
This resource offers UDL-based strategies to engage students, focusing on areas like fostering student autonomy, setting clear goals, and supporting emotional regulation. It includes links and QR codes for exploring tips at your own pace, with options for deeper reflection and practical application to enhance classroom dynamics and student motivation.
This section offers resources to support teaching practices, including the responsible use of AI for personalized learning, lesson planning, and ethical discussions. It also introduces the use of LEGO© bricks for fostering creativity and communication, and the use of EduProtocols to promote collaboration and critical thinking across subjects.
This guide offers teachers an overview of using AI responsibly. It highlights AI’s use in creating personalized learning experiences, generating lesson plans, and assisting with administrative tasks. It also covers risks like accuracy, privacy, and equity while addressing common misconceptions about AI.
This guide provides access to the AI Ethics and Policy News Spreadsheet, which organizes current articles on AI ethics by topics like Bias, Privacy, and Education. Teachers can explore these articles and adapt them for classroom discussions, offering a great way to engage students with real-world issues related to AI.
This resource shows how using LEGO© bricks in the classroom can foster communication, creativity, and reflection. Teachers can pose challenges, have students build models, and share their stories, promoting engagement and critical thinking. It’s an interactive method to foster meaningful conversations and connections.
This resource introduces EduProtocols, lesson frameworks that promote critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. It offers ideas for ELA, Math, Social Studies, and more, with tools like the Emoji Paragraph Generator and SMART Starts. It also includes tips for using EduProtocols with UDL and SEL, plus the AI tool Diffit to streamline lesson planning.
This section provides strategies for flexible, relevant professional learning, including using the 5:1 ratio for positive classroom interactions, transparent planning to improve executive function, a framework for empathy to address educators’ learning needs, the benefits of structured check-ins for student engagement, and free templates to support implementation.
This blog explores the impact of the 5:1 ratio, where five positive interactions should occur to help build trust for every negative one. It offers practical strategies for teachers to foster positive engagement, behavior, and emotional connections, ultimately creating a more supportive and productive classroom environment.
This blog offers strategies to help students combat procrastination and increase executive function through transparent planning. It provides a free template to help students organize tasks, prioritize work, and improve focus, making it a valuable tool for teachers to strengthen students’ organizational skills.
This blog outlines a framework for understanding educators’ needs by listening to their feedback, analyzing data, and acting on insights to improve professional learning. It emphasizes collecting quantitative and qualitative data, building trust, and making meaningful changes based on educators’ input. This approach helps create more responsive and engaging professional development that reflects educators’ needs.
This blog reveals educators’ preference for flexible, online learning led by experts, focusing on content and application choices. It highlights the importance of relevance, clarity, and realistic application in professional development, encouraging a framework for empathy to better meet the needs to educators’ in designing learning experiences.
This blog outlines three key benefits of structured check-ins with students: increased engagement, better identification of challenges, and improved relationships. It explains how check-ins foster a supportive environment and offers a free template to help teachers implement them effectively.
This section offers tools for applying design thinking to your practices, including a poster template for identifying successes, defining objectives, prototyping ideas, and a slide deck showcasing how to guide learners through the process digitally.
This poster template walks users through the design thinking process. This template is excellent for creating group posters for in-person collaboration. It follows the Design Thinking Process and allows learners to record their individual ideas and work toward a goal.
This presentation highlights Design Thinking as a flexible approach to problem-solving in teaching and planning. Reviewing the slides, consider how this process could be utilized with fellow teachers in a department meeting or modified to guide students through a problem-solving activity.
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