While there are certainly as many variations to the approach as there are teachers using it, the basic concept is that the traditional classroom structure is “flipped” so that students watch lectures and instructional videos at home, and then they use class time to complete the higher-order thinking tasks that would traditionally be assigned as homework.
We all love classroom materials that we can reuse over and over again. Make it once, revise it until it’s…
We recently overheard a conversation between high school English teachers about how to make poetry interesting (and if it’s even…
YA fairy tale books have historically been reliable hits for First Chapter Friday. There’s something about fairy tales that we…
Rubrics are a lifesaver when it comes to managing the grading load. Most English teachers are no stranger to rubrics—it’s how most of us grade essays—but in order to cut grading time and try to promote consistency within our PLC, we started using them for just about everything.
Historical fiction is uniquely powerful because it offers the elements we look for in a good story—conflict, love, action, suspense,…