Our community of learning has been focussing on increasing learner agency across our schools. We have developed rubrics to help us track our progress in doing so. The photo above shows a staff activity where teachers were asked to think of examples of existing practices in our school that promote learner agency. We then collected … Read more

As I mentioned in my last post, I have been teaching Virtual for a few weeks now since my school closed until the New Year. I am working hard to keep online teaching before Holiday break similar to how I would end the year in the actual classroom. Today, we worked in winter PJ’s! … Read more

STEM careers are highly lucrative and in-demand – yet females and minority students are drastically underrepresented in the historically male-dominated field of STEM. To support this underrepresented group, Gosciencegirls.com are providing access to supplemental resources. Gosciencegirls.com have recently published an “Ultimate STEM guide” – that covers almost all the resources available on the web for … Read more

Use these tried and true early finisher activities to help keep your students engaged in learning.

Wikipedia describes Guerilla warfare as “a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants … fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military“. Due to their size, they tend to avoid head-on confrontations, focusing instead on very targeted attacks including sabotage, ambushes, and hit-and-run tactics.  I often wonder about guerilla warfare as a metaphor … Read more

Free Beach Ball Multiplication Printable! – Teaching Heart Blog Skip to content Come join me on Instagram!!! Click here to follow me! Leave a comment on my latest post and I will follow you back! Summer Multiplication Free Resource Below! At the end of the year, I like … Read more

Boxlight Releases New Big STEM Guide Volume 3 Lawrenceville, GA, July 28, 2021 – Boxlight Corporation (Nasdaq: BOXL), a leading provider of interactive technology, digital signage, and software solutions, today announced the release of The Big STEM Guide Volume 3. As Boxlight continues to increase its STEM solutions portfolio, The Big STEM Guide Volume 3 … Read more

  A resource I have been working on this year is ‘growth mindset ludo’. As students move around the board, they land on various reflection questions about fixed and growth mindsets to help them identify the patterns in their own thinking. After all, it is reflection that helps us learn from our mistakes and improve. … Read more

I am always looking for ways to bring more te reo Māori into my classes. However, doing this in a really meaningful way when my own understanding of the reo is limited can be a challenge. One resource that I created this year to help are the cards pictured in these photos. I collected a … Read more

Science really is everywhere – even in a strawberry patch! But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start at the beginning. I’m afraid of lunch ladies.  They’re intimidating.  I guess you need to be if you’re dealing with hundreds of hungry kids in a small cafeteria.  As a kid, I usually kept my head down … Read more