Dropbox Love!

Dropbox Love!

Some of you are fortunate to work in schools that provide you with a laptop or some kind of mobile productivity device. Others of you do not have such luxuries. So, outside of using flash drives, emailing documents to yourself, or keeping things in a million places,...
Conferring Tool #2: Evernote!

Conferring Tool #2: Evernote!

Welcome back, guest poster Shelby!  Please continue to wow us with your conferring genius: There’s another great option for conferring using a Together Teacher favorite: Evernote. We’ve featured Evernote on our blog a few times and it is really...
Conferring Tool #1: Confer!

Conferring Tool #1: Confer!

And now, a guest post from our Together Teacher Coordinator, Shelby: When I taught K-2 guided reading and writing, I was constantly looking for a better way to keep track of my conference notes. I tried binders with tabs, clipboards, notebooks… and everything else...
Family Communications, Part 2

Family Communications, Part 2

As promised, we wanted to share additional Google and paper-based ideas and for making and tracking family contact. Claire S., an early childhood teacher in Washington, DC, and two loyal blog commenters (thanks Carol and Xuan!) contributed the great solutions below....
Contest! Win access to Dash4Teachers App! (Enter by November 9)

Contest! Win access to Dash4Teachers App! (Enter by November 9)

Not only do you have students to keep track of, colleagues to meet with, and administrators to manage, but there’s another HUGELY important  group of people who require your attention—the families of your students! Some of you are fortunate enough to have a...