Over the past 15 months we have been stretched and learned more than we ever thought possible, especially in light of the digital tools we are now using. Yet, as the new school year approaches, we are reflecting on which of these digital tools will actually stay with us as we move forward into our…
If you are a teacher, you know the power of a great read aloud in your classroom. You have those beloved books that you go back to year after year, because they provoke strong emotions and meaningful conversations with your students. Those books help you teach multiple strategies and best of all, model for students…
Back to School 2020. Instead of the usual excitement mixed with the silly worry about whether we’ll love this year’s class as much as last year’s, we are all feeling some anxiety and trepidation about whether we will succeed in reaching our students at all. Will we have an opportunity to know them in person…
At TLA, we are wrestling with the same questions as school leaders, teachers and parents. In what ways can we support students and teachers and reopen schools in a safe way? What does instruction look like in a hybrid scenario where some of the kids are at school and some of them are remote? We…
Over the past few months, we’ve worked with and talked to hundreds of teachers about the good, bad, and ugly of remote learning. A question that came up over and over was “how do we keep our students engaged in online learning?” This short blog post will begin to tackle that question with a few…
In our last post, we shared a quick way to set up a DIY Document Camera. Now we want to show you how this tool can be used for a variety of ways to support remote teaching and learning. One of the reasons we love the use of the document camera for remote teaching and…
If you’re like us, you’ve been struggling during this time of remote learning to make your teaching come alive because most of us are used to teaching with tools by our side—document cameras, whiteboards, or anchor charts. Maybe you’ve been struggling to figure out how to get those tools back! We struggled, too, persevered, and…
Back to School 2020 There’s nothing quite like the fresh new school year. The clean desks, the organized classroom library and the word wall that is ready to build out with students of all the incredible names, vocabulary, and phonics words we learn. together. This year with hybrid and remote learning, how do we adapt…