My longtime friend Sorby Grant, Chief Program Officer at the Center for Resilience in New Orleans, reached out recently with some light anguish around her team’s use of Slack. It’s a challenge I’m sure many folks can relate to, so I…
Here’s a great question that recently landed in the mailbag from Mekia L., a principal with KIPP DC, who had just started grad school! I know many of you are in the same boat! What a great question, Mekia! I already know you are rocking out…
Your emails, questions and comments have been rolling in! Time to resurrect the mailbag! Here’s one from Stacie, an instructional manager (and former principal and teacher) based in Baltimore! Click to enlarge Dear…
Hi Maia, Can you help me out? I’m looking for suggestions from teachers on how to create a classroom environment with less paper for elementary and middle school parents, students and teachers. How can we work with less paper, as our district…
Dear Maia, I’m a middle school language arts teacher, and it has gotten increasingly complicated to keep track of my students’ writing over my decade of teaching. Some students want to write by hand. Others want to draft on laptops or…
Dear Maia, I am a high school principal in Colorado, and some of my teachers have 170 students EACH. They are drowning in homework to grade. How on earth can they make this easier and more efficient? Kate…
Dear Maia, I’m wondering if you have any suggestions on how to best plan out your summer time? I’m trying to adjust my organization system now that I’m not teaching (no lessons to prep, copies to make, etc). I would LOVE to see a post about how…