Quick Tip Tuesday: Introduction to the Parent Project
In this week’s Quick Tip Jim Vopat, author of The Parent Project, introduces us to the origins of the project and how it helps parents become more involved in their children’s learning. Welcome to the...
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Quick Tip Tuesday: Why is public speaking important?
“What percentage of communication is oral and what percentage is written?” asks Erik Palmer in the beginning of his new book Well Spoken: Teaching Speaking to All Students. In the first chapter of his...
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Quick Tip Tuesday: Poetry in nature
This week’s Quick Tip comes from Herbert Broda’s 2007 book Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning: Using the Outdoors as an Instructional Tool, K-8. The book just received the Environmental Education Council of...
View ArticleQuick Tip Tuesday: The process behind writing digital stories
While digital stories rely heavily on technology, at their core they are still stories that have to be planned, researched, and written. In this week’s Quick Tip, Lisa Miller, author of Make Me a...
View ArticleQuick Tip Tuesday: Six favorite children’s authors
This week’s Quick Tip comes to you in video form for a change. We asked Ranu Bhattacharyya, author of The Castle in the Classroom, who her favorite children’s authors are. Watch the video for her...
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Quick Tip Tuesday: Reading aloud with songbooks
Despite time limits, mandates, and important tests to give, Debbie Miller believes that learning to read should still be a joyful experience for students. “Give children the luxury of listening to...
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Quick Tip Tuesday: Using quick images with dot cards to build a strong...
In her new book Number Sense Routines, author Jessica Shumway shares a series of routines designed to help young students internalize and deepen their facility with numbers. For the next four weeks, we...
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Quick Tip Tuesday: Counting the days in school
We continue our math quick tip series with another idea from Jessica Shumway’s recent book Number Sense Routines. Counting the days in school is a routine that Jessica uses at the end of the day to...
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Quick Tip Tuesday: Using Algebra and Arithmetic Routines to Improve Number Sense
Our math quick tips continue on this sunny Tuesday with another number sense routine by Jessica Shumway, exclusive to the Stenhouse blog. Her new book, Number Sense Routines, is still available for...
View ArticleQuick Tip Tuesday: Data collection tips and ideas
We wrap up our four weeks of math quick tips with Jessica Shumway today with tips and ideas for data collection routines in the classroom. You can still preview Jessica’s book Number Sense Routines on...
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