I’ve been around a lot of high schoolers over the years and seen them use (or not use) their planners for a variety of reasons. Much of the time, kids don’t use the planner because it’s not designed well. Super small, lots of extra fluff …
It was just a few weeks before the state exam when I realized that my students had a problem. And that problem was totally my fault. It was my first year teaching and I did not require my 9th graders to keep a notebook for …
“After the formative assessment, I differentiated the assignment, but he still struggled. Based on his performance in the classroom and his PARCC scores, I would recommend an RTI level 2 intervention.” If you understood the previous paragraph, you probably work in education. If you didn’t …
As a teacher, my goal was to have only 2 students cry a semester. I knew Kayla was about to be one of those two. She was a senior with a heavy AP load and college applications on her mind. “Ms. P, I’m under …