by Kelly Hoffmann | Oct 28, 2022 | Educator's Blog
What does it mean to have engaged students? Engagement is when students show interest, curiosity, and attention to a teacher’s lesson or activity. It means students are showing persistence, and making an effort toward completing a classroom task. A student is...
by Kelly Hoffmann | Oct 13, 2022 | Lessons
Are you having trouble finding engaging digital lessons to cover 7th grade Algebra Standards? Tired of trying to make your own? Students who master the 7th grade algebra standards will do well when they enter Algebra I. And digital lessons are needed to supplement...
by Kelly Hoffmann | Sep 21, 2022 | Lessons
Let’s make math more fun! This time of year especially! Kids love Halloween! Why not put a Halloween theme on your daily lessons and decorate with a Halloween flair? Monsters, bats, skeletons, pumpkins, and witches can be used to decorate a classroom, or...
by Kelly Hoffmann | Sep 14, 2022 | Lessons
Teachers, it’s time to start planning some fun activities for Halloween! Students love Halloween. And if you’re a math teacher, adding a Halloween theme is a great way to keep students engaged and enthused about math. Decorate your classroom with...
by Kelly Hoffmann | Aug 28, 2022 | Lessons
Do you need help teaching Geometry digitally? Teachers are always searching for better ways and new materials to cover the Geometry Standards. Since Covid-19, they’ve been expected to assign lessons digitally on sites like Google Classroom. There are...
by Kelly Hoffmann | Aug 18, 2022 | Educator's Blog
Approximately 300,000 public school teachers left the profession between February 2020 and May 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Why are they leaving? Could we have seen this coming? Over the past year, many teachers have taken to social media to...
by Kelly Hoffmann | Aug 11, 2022 | Educator's Blog, Lessons
As most veteran teachers will tell you, what you do in the early weeks of school will set the tone for the entire school year. What should you teach in the those beginning weeks? I’ve started each school year a little differently. Some years the pressures...
by Kelly Hoffmann | Jun 29, 2022 | Lessons
Digital Lessons are here to stay. There is so much content that can be taught and practiced using Google Slides, Docs, Forms, and Sheets. Do your students know how to drag and drop items on a Google Slide? Can they fill in shapes with color using the “Fill...
by Kelly Hoffmann | Jun 22, 2022 | Lessons
As a middle school math teacher, one of my biggest regrets as I moved through the school year, was that I didn’t spend enough time reviewing fractions. The pressure to move on quickly to cover middle school math standards, forced me to move on before my...
by Kelly Hoffmann | Jun 15, 2022 | Lessons
I Quit Teaching. I’ve just retired from teaching after 22 years. The plan was to teach 4 more years. But the thought of enduring 4 more long years was more than I could envision. Four years is not a long time. But under stressful conditions, it can seem an...
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