The Spreadsheet Teacher

Have you ever stared at a list of the Common Core State Standards and felt completely overwhelmed? It’s a struggle to keep all the standards in your brain for your own grade level, to say nothing of the knowledge and skills students might need be missing from previous grades AND what knowledge and skills they will be expected to master in future grades! I had this same struggle...what’s more, I wanted a standards-based way to collaborate with colleagues across grade levels so that our conversa

Have you ever stared at a list of the Common Core State Standards and felt completely overwhelmed? It’s a struggle to keep all the standards in your brain for your own grade level, to say nothing of the knowledge and skills students might need be missing from previous grades AND what knowledge and skills they will be expected to master in future grades! I had this same struggle...what’s more, I wanted a standards-based way to collaborate with colleagues across grade levels so that our conversa

Have you ever stared at a list of the Common Core State Standards and felt completely overwhelmed? It’s a struggle to keep all the standards in your brain for your own grade level, to say nothing of the knowledge and skills students might need be missing from previous grades AND what knowledge and skills they will be expected to master in future grades! I had this same struggle...what’s more, I wanted a standards-based way to collaborate with colleagues across grade levels so that our conversa

Have you ever stared at a list of the Common Core State Standards and felt completely overwhelmed? It’s a struggle to keep all the standards in your brain for your own grade level, to say nothing of the knowledge and skills students might need be missing from previous grades AND what knowledge and skills they will be expected to master in future grades! I had this same struggle...what’s more, I wanted a standards-based way to collaborate with colleagues across grade levels so that our conversa

Class creation is an important part of setting students up for success, but systems with pink and blue sheets of paper are often hard to manage, and it's hard to be confident that the resulting classes set kids and colleagues up for success in the upcoming school year. I created this system for our school so that teachers can work together to create balanced classes for the upcoming school year, resulting in happy kids, teachers, and admins! With this resource, you will be able to:⭐️  Create bal

Taking formative assessments in the form of exit tickets is an important best practice, but it can be such a challenge to stay on top of it! In about ten minutes per day, this simple exit ticket tracker allows you to reflect on your instruction and make a plan for the next day’s lesson! With this resource, you will be able to: ⭐ Keep track of students’ performance on exit tickets, getting a sense of their learning for the day and saving time formerly spent on more traditional grading by usi

Parent conferences are an important time to connect with families, but they can be difficult to schedule. This Google Form digital form gives families the ability to tell you their preferred times while still giving you the freedom to schedule conferences in a way that makes the most sense. This is a start-to-finish system for getting your conferences scheduled! With this resource, you will be able to: ⭐ Easily gather families’ preferred times and dates for conferences, and Spanish subtitles