Back to the Basics
From Edutopia, Fundamentals of Classroom Management is a list of resources aimed at new teachers, but it looks like they have some useful information for any teacher. Also from Edutopia, an article from a few years ago suggests a simple strategy for asking better questions to students. Finally, Jennifer Gonzalez from the Cult of Pedagogy podcast recently did an episode / blog post about what to do you when you want some answers, but you get nothing but crickets in response.
Google Drive Learns New Tricks
Google Slides and Docs have a few tricks up their virtual sleeves. Say you want to hide a slide during a presentation because you want to temporarily hide an answer. When in presentation mode, press the B key for a black screen, W for a blank white one. You can also set up automatic timings on a Slides presentation and have it loop in kiosk mode. It might be helpful for student festival or rotation directions during group work. Just click the gear icon at the bottom of the screen when in presentation mode. In Docs, go into the Tools menu and click Word Count. You can display a live word count as you type. Great for typing up announcements or other places where you have a word or character limit.
We are 204: With the Fire on High
Emoni Santiago's life course seems pretty set in stone. She is a high school senior with a toddler to raise and she has to help her grandmother pay the bills. Emoni is such an instinctively good cook that her cooking skills seem like magic, but she thinks her own dream of being a chef will never happen. That is until her school starts a new culinary arts class. Taking the class is one thing, but she will never be able to afford the culinary two week trip to Spain to work in a real professional kitchen. And getting to know the cute new boy that keeps trying to get her attention is definitely off limits. But maybe this is her real chance for a better future for both her and her daughter. Here is the book trailer on YouTube.
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