What exactly do ESOL teachers do? How do they support English Language Learners and general ed teachers in and out of the classroom? I am going to share bits and pieces of the life of an ESOL teacher. This is my seventh year as an ESOL...
Back in June Microsoft threw a big party to announce that they were rebranding Flipgrid. What was once called Flipgrid is now Microsoft Flip. Fortunately, not much else changed and all of my favorite Flipgrid features still work. That said, some people have already been...
This morning my attention was grabbed by a BBC video titled Utah's Great Salt Lake is Running Out of Water. It's a fascinating video about the conditions that have contributed to the Great Salt Lake shrinking by nearly two-thirds in this century. Spoiler alert: drought...
My daughters love rainbows. They have rainbow dresses, rainbow bracelets, rainbow stickers, and anything else that can have a rainbow on it. So they were super excited last week when we saw a double rainbow from our front porch! (You can look on my Instagram...
Disclosure: TARA is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.comAt the end of the last school year I spent some time exploring a new edtech tool called TARA. It’s a service that solves problems for new teachers and veteran teachers. Those problems are having more time to...
This is a guest blog post by Frode Svane, with excellent reflective commentary.This is a guest blog post by Frode Svane, with excellent reflective commentary.Community Involvement, Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Frode Svane, natural playgrounds, natural playgrounds Norway, nature, play, playgroundsRead More...
On Friday morning I shared a browser extension called BeTimeful that limits your access to social media sites during your working hours. As I wrote in that blog post, there are similar tools worth noting. Here's a short overview of some tools that can help...
Good evening from Cooperstown, NY where my brother and I are attending David Ortiz's induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame tomorrow. We spent some of today attending a parade of Hall of Famers and earlier in the day I explored the area on my...
PhET is one of my top resource recommendations for math and science teachers. PhET offers more than one hundred online, interactive simulations for teaching concepts in mathematics, physics, chemistry, earth science, and biology. Those simulations can be used on PhET's website and they can be...
At the All-Star Game break, here are the standings in both of my educator fantasy baseball leagues… BlogBall22 Buckeye Ballers, Toby Fischer CAM Cougars, Dominic Giegerich Technauts, Joe Bires Twinkies, Scott McLeod Bayou Buffalos, Vinnie Vrotny TheBrewz, Jeremy Brueck Good Trouble, Jon Becker (last year’s champ) Greyhounds, John Spencer Maineiacs, Harold Shaw Optimistic Mets Fan, Reshan...
