Using Technology to Enhance Read-Aloud Time

Do you ever wonder how to best integrate your tech tools with read-aloud time and activities? If so, wonder no longer! Edutopia’s “7 Tech Tips for your Next ...

New! Expanded Blended Shared Inquiry Essentials Course

Questions inspire! Asking the right questions at the right time is a skill that requires practice. How do you learn this skill & get the practice you need? In our revised and expanded 15-hour Blended Shared Inquiry Essentials ...

Teaching Students to Think Critically about News Sources

There’s no debate that advancements in digital technology and information sharing are valuable educational tools.  However, access to seemingly endless news and information creates a few dilemmas. One of them is how to determine the ...

Tips to Empower Students to Ask their own Questions about Literature

By Joel Pardalis, sixth-grade teacher at New Fairfield Middle School in New Fairfield, Connecticut

Teach students the value of different types of questions. Initially, we start off talking about open versus ...

The Importance of Student Questions

We’re grateful to Joel Pardalis, sixth-grade teacher at New Fairfield Middle School in New Fairfield, Connecticut, for writing this guest post about how he discovered the benefits of effective questioning and how to get students ...