Differentiation is the 2020 call-to-action for teachers. As self-contained classes disappear and more special needs students are enrolled in gen ed classes it is incumbent upon us to learn how to...

A learning target seems so benign; it's just one sentence explaining what your lesson will be for the day. But behold, my fellow teachers., this little baby can make or break your observation...

Unit plans and lesson plans are distinctly different documents. There is no chicken and egg question here; a unit plan MUST come before the lesson plan. A unit plan starts life as a brain dump on a...

The Cold War encompasses 45 years of events; that's a LOT! The unit involves every corner of the globe. There are civil wars, proxy wars, lots of terminology, arms races and space races, military and...

For most revolutions you can simply drum into students' heads: the peasants were starving and had no rights, so they had a revolution to change the government.  Seriously, if you think about it...

How many of us have been forced, overnight, to enter the 21st century and start using Google Classroom? Who has suffered a steep learning curve with no time to absorb the applications? Students get...