The New Year is a time for resolutions, goal-setting, and new beginnings. However, how can you best chart a course… Continue Reading >
Category Archives: Best Practices for Educators
Three Easy Ways to Form More Meaningful Connections with Parents or Guardians this New School Year
“Great teachers focus not on compliance, but on connections and relationships.” — PJ Caposey, Education Week What does it mean… Continue Reading >
Setting Behavior Expectations in the Virtual Environment
What student behavior looked, sounded, and felt like took a unique turn with virtual learning. When students can turn their… Continue Reading >
The Pros and Cons of Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning
During the COVID-19 pandemic, students whose prior educational experience consisted of in-classroom lectures and at-home practice, in some cases, experienced… Continue Reading >
How to Engage and Inspire Tech-Savvy Gen Z and Gen Alpha Students
The students filling the hallways in today’s schools are comprised of two unique but similarly minded generations. Gen Z, also… Continue Reading >
How to Welcome Diversity and Foster Inclusion into Your Classroom
The classroom is a crucial space for children and young adults to learn vital lessons in diversity, inclusion, and belonging…. Continue Reading >
Five Ways to Strengthen Your Students’ Critical Thinking Skills
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle… Continue Reading >
Easy Ways to Show Your Students and Parents/Guardians That You Care
It’s important for teachers to show students and parents or guardians that they care. If you look back at your… Continue Reading >
Homework Overload: How Much Homework is Too Much?
Homework is a critical learning modality that helps students practice what they’ve learned and reinforce learning concepts. With students learning… Continue Reading >
The Importance of Practicing Self-Reflection with PLS 3rd Learning’s CEO Dr. Don Jacobs
Today, we have a very special guest blog from the CEO of PLS 3rd Learning (the parent company of PLS… Continue Reading >