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These supercharged Plickers cards will help you check in with your student in a paperless, but low tech way! Have you used Plickers? Plickers is a simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data from their students without the need for student devices.  Each student is given a card with a unique visual code. The code has 4 sides, each lettered A, B, C, and D. The student holds the card so that the letter they choose to answer the question with is at the top of their ca

Switch it up with digital practice using Google Sheets™. These self-checking activities use conditional formatting to provide students with immediate feedback and motivation to keep going! I love making "stacks" of several pixel art activities for students to work through. Kind of like a packet! This stack has five different pixel art picture activities of a cute astronaut cartoon. I've made reformatting for your own problems even easier! Scroll down the Directions tab and you'll find where you

Help your students take ownership of their learning with self assessment. Three posters, based on a standards based rubric, can be paired with 3 different baskets (and even match the color). Students rate their understanding of a lesson or assignment by turning their paper into the basket that best describes their self-assessment: "I'VE GOT THIS", "I ALMOST GOT IT", and "I NEED HELP". Even better, I know exactly which students need a check in!

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Switch it up with digital practice using Google Sheets™. These self-checking activities use conditional formatting to provide students with immediate feedback and motivation to keep going! I love making "stacks" of several pixel art activities for students to work through. Kind of like a packet! This sample has only 1 pixel art activities, but uses the same fast formatting for you to try out! I've made reformatting for your own problems even easier! Scroll down the Directions tab and you'll fin

This is the form I use to take notes when I go visit a teacher's classroom. I'm an instructional coach, so I like referring to my observation as a "learning walk" to assure my teachers that I'm not evaluating or judging them in any way. There are three shapes on the form. Squares with my thinking ☐ - What am I loving, agree with, or also use?3 points to remember △ - What am I going to beg, borrow, steal?Questions Circling Around ○ - What am I curious about?

Applications to use in conjunction with Zoom to make synchronous learning sessions more engaging. I haven't tried these with Google Meet, but the ideas are transferable.

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