Hola friends!! I just learned how to do something really cool this weekend! I had been wondering how to do this FORVER! I emailed Brooke from Once Upon a First Grade Adventure to share with me how she did it.  Thank you Brooke!! Here is the 5 minute video! At the beginning of the video I think I said how to make an editable PDF, but I actually ...

I don’t review apps and services as much as I used to, but if you’re a teacher, you must absolutely check out SmashText by Despain Computing. SmashText lets you send texts to groups of people in your Gmail contacts. For me, that means my students. If I want to text just a few of them, I [...]

Maybe my students think I’m crazy. “No, really,” I say. “If you’re ever not in class, you have to tell me. You have to text me.” For some students, this seems like a reasonable request. Mr. Isero expects me to be in class, so if I’m absent or late, I should let him know why. [...]

Maybe my students think I’m crazy. “No, really,” I say. “If you’re ever not in class, you have to tell me. You have to text me.” For some students, this seems like a reasonable request. Mr. Isero expects me to be in class, so if I’m absent or late, I should let him know why. [...]

Ms. Dorothy,  _____, who is 12, has Aspergers. He is very high functioning, but not surprisingly, fine motor skills are not his forte. At what age are kids proficient at typing? How would you define proficient? Is it the sort of skill that like writing, will just improve over time as you are challenged to work at it more and more? - A Mom Typing ...

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How often and for how long do you truly listen to your students? I don’t mean listening to an answer they give or a comment they make in class. I mean listening more deeply about who they are: their interests, their goals, their problems, their needs as a student. With more than a hundred students and daily public school chaos, it’s nearly ...

How often and for how long do you truly listen to your students? I don’t mean listening to an answer they give or a comment they make in class. I mean listening more deeply about who they are: their interests, their goals, their problems, their needs as a student. With more than a hundred students and daily public school chaos, it’s nearly ...

As a teacher, I’m always looking for better ways to communicate with my students. We know they don’t check email. Many don’t have access to a computer at home. Thankfully, most students have cellphones. In my last post, I wrote about Google Voice Mass SMS, which allows you to send texts easily to groups of people. But what if you want to have a ...

As a teacher, I’m always looking for better ways to communicate with my students. We know they don’t check email. Many don’t have access to a computer at home. Thankfully, most students have cellphones. In my last post, I wrote about Google Voice Mass SMS, which allows you to send texts easily to groups of people. But what if you want to have ...