Topic: The Right Tools

Practical resources to help you start the year off creating genuine connection and deepening learning in your classroom, from day one.

Once we understand the ways in which a school’s culture impacts our students, we can make shifts to make the school environment more trusting, collaborative, and welcoming.

One way to meet our students where they are is to take a close look at the resources we’re using in the classroom. Are they the best fit for the students we are teaching today?

Lorena and Towanda talk about teaching that goes beyond just student centered, and is both student driven and community centered.

Today on the podcast, a special read aloud episode from Towanda Harris, author of The Right Tools.

Our goal for all of our students is that they will use the skills we teach them independently.

We have a responsibility to keep learning, because in each class, students will have different strengths and needs. When our learning stops, our teaching stops.

Subjecting students to unnecessary assessments causes stress and wastes valuable instructional time. How do we ensure that our assessments are helpful?

Knowing our students helps us to choose the most useful resources for them and to make every moment of our precious instructional time count.

How do we find helpful new resources without squandering funding or instructional time?

In her new book, The Right Tools, author Towanda Harris lays out a path that teachers and administrators can use to make informed decisions abut what resources and practices they need for the students they teach.