North Carolina New Schools consistently provides excellent opportunities for teachers to collaborate and learn from one another, but North Carolina is full of other programs for teachers to collaborate and find useful information. Last week I had the good fortune to work with the folks at LEARN NC, a program at UNC-Chapel Hill that provides
...I’ve been using videos to help my kids learn material for the past three years, but I have only truly understood how to use the flipped classroom method within the past twelve months. Flipping the classroom (or flipclass) involves so much more than just videos. The short definition of flipclass is this: any time you would lecture the students
...When I met our instructional coach, Dr. Barb Chapman, during my first week of work four years ago at Lee Early College, she seemed very nice and helpful. But the moment she said, “When do you want me to come visit your classroom?” I became instantly terrified.
The thought of having other people in my classroom gave me unbelievable anxiety,
...It’s funny how back to school anxiety never goes away. From kindergarten through my fourth year of teaching, I still find myself staring at the ceiling late at night in the days before school starts. My coworkers and I joke about it. We all have the Back-to-School Nightmares: the out-of-control classroom, the lost lesson plan, the forgotten ability to
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