
Rhubarb has allowed me to connect to her Lesson Planner, I can search by a keyword like “Homophones” and it’ll let me have a glimpse at her wonderful past work on homophones.Īnd, because she’s in my district, I can be fairly confident its well-aligned to the curriculum. So, if I’m a first-year teacher and my master teacher Mrs. This is obviously a human endeavor, but tech can help! One example is that Lesson Plan sharing online can be incredibly beneficial within your school or district. Some say that new teachers are too often left to fend for themselves, without the benefit of an artisan-apprenticeship relationship. But if a first-year teacher down the hall or in the next school over is trying to figure out where to start with a recipe for a strawberry rhubarb pie, this is one of the places technology can bridge a meaningful gap. If you can bake the perfect strawberry rhubarb pie from experience and improvisation, there’s no need to keep writing the recipe down. It stunned me a little then, but ten years and a few hundred schools later.I get it. “Son I’ve been teaching for 25 years, and I don’t need to write down my lesson plans, so I won’t be participating today.”


It was almost a decade ago when I visited a school for the first time as an edtech professional, and their district brought me in to modernize their planning process with a cloud-based lesson planning program.īefore I even started, one teacher made a beeline for me, pulled me aside and said: Tip 1: Baking the Perfect Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
