5 Tips to Help us Connect with Students Remotely
Making connections with students is harder than ever, but as we all know, it’s the foundation for everything that happens in the classroom. Engagement doesn’t happen, academic success doesn’t happen u...
25 Sep 20208min
The Remote Learning Roundup
We're (finally) back! Welcome back to REALity Check, Season 2. Our first season was short-lived, but we're back with philosophical conversations and quick takeaways. In this episode, Jen interviews Sh...
25 Sep 202016min
10 Tips for Creating Effective Flipped Lessons
As we venture into these weeks of eLearning, many teachers are planning to include video lessons to help their students stay on track with their learning. Some of these teachers have been incorporati...
30 Mar 20204min
6 Reasons Why Schoology Grading Can Make Life Easier
In this episode, hosts Victoria Lobb and Shanna Piggott discuss the key reasons teachers should be grading work in Schoology and tracking the grades to PowerSchool. Also discussed are the many diffe...
9 Mar 202012min
Personalized Learning Part II - Strategies & Tools for Personalized Learning
In this episode, Shanna Piggott and Victoria Lobb discuss six strategies and related tools for personalized learning as a follow-up to the previous discussion about the three Ps of personalized learni...
1 Mar 202012min
Personalized Learning Part I - The Three P's of Personalized Learning
We were originally introduced to the three Ps through our district BlendEd work, this idea that we can modify Path, Pace, and/or Place for our students as we design a BlendEd curriculum. More broadly...
1 Mar 202011min
Students as Individuals - Thoughts about Differentiation and Personalized Learning
In this episode, Rachel Lesinski and Shanna Piggott discuss why it is important to respect the students in our classes as individuals and how differentiation and personalized learning can help motivat...
1 Mar 20208min
Differentiation, Part II
In the most recent episode of REALity Check, I talked about differentiation more philosophically. Here's I'd like to quickly address five specific, research-based strategies to addressing differentia...
1 Mar 202010min
