One of the biggest frustrations we hear from teachers, leaders, and other school-supporting professionals is that they WANT to be more electronic, but their environment doesn’t always allow for it: screens need to be down in meetings, walking down the hallways is not...
We’ve been teasing you for awhile now with references to the great Arc Notebook, and now it’s high time we go into detail. Loyal blog followers have already met many teachers and their Flexy-Friends, Jocelyn and her binder, and Keith and his clipboard. But so far,...
I recently spent time with the founding teachers of a charter school in Washington, DC. I was struck by the intentionality of the school leader, Mekia L., in setting up systems for Togetherness that will last her school, staff and students for years to come. Here’s me...
We know many of you use Outlook in your schools—particularly for e-mail and calendar features. Here are a few things we love about how Cole F., a teacher in Harlem, uses Outlook to manage his time. We encourage you to steal some of his tricks! Time scheduled for...
E-mail. . . You may have noticed its absence as a topic on our blog. This is not because e-mail isn’t a big deal — in fact, we have an entire book chapter devoted to it. But I know that once we open the e-mail can of worms, well, there is no going back. And for...
