When Lesson Plans Flop in the Classroom

When Lesson Plans Flop in the Classroom

I’m willing to bet that if you’ve ever been a teacher for more than, say…a week, then you’ve seen a lesson plan fail spectacularly. One of my personal favorite lesson plan failures involves my apparent inability to count two-digit numbers: I tried to put the...
CoachFest 2021 Was Just What the Doctor Ordered

CoachFest 2021 Was Just What the Doctor Ordered

Many of us, especially those of us in education, were hoping the pandemic would be behind us by now. We cancelled CoachFest in 2020 and weren’t sure we would even be able to host the event this year, but we kept hearing the message, “We need this.” So with limited...
What Makes a Great Lesson Plan?

What Makes a Great Lesson Plan?

In our last article, we explored who a lesson plan is for. Now it’s time to look at what makes a lesson plan well worth all the time and energy it takes to create one that really makes a difference in the classroom. There are plenty of lesson planning templates out...