Student Schedules
In the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom, students take responsibility for scheduling how they will use their time. The amount of forward-looking activities students can manage will depend upon their grade level, the amount of time they have experienced your Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom, and the amount of years they’ve studied in such classrooms in the school.

The following guest post was written by Barbara Blackburn, author of Rigor in Your School: A Toolkit for Leaders.

One of the questions I’m often asked is how to use one of my books for a book study. Book studies are a great way to help develop a common understanding of a topic, such as rigor.

This tip, from High-Impact Leadership for High-Impact Schools: The Actions That Matter Most by Pamela S. Salazar, provides school leaders with five key questions they should ask themselves to ensure that they are effectively supporting their teachers, and constantly increasing the quality of teaching in their schools. Pamela Salazar will be providing even more tips for school leaders regarding teacher effectiveness at Eye On School Success, An Online Conference, this March!

The following guest post was written by Toby Rothstein Gruber, Eye On Education's Director of Professional Services and the moderator of Eye On Education's professional development webinars.

Have you ever felt like you’ve used all your classroom strategies, yet you still have those certain students that no matter which strategy you try, it just doesn’t work? On our February 9 webinar, Managing Disruptive Behaviors in the Classroom, presented by Bryan Harris we not only identified the 5 most common classroom disruptions, we talked about what to do with them. Just when you thought you were out of strategies, check out what our participants had to say regarding the following common disruptions...

Do Not Procrastinate. It happens to new teachers (and veterans) all the time—they enter into the "I’ll do it tomorrow" cave. I call it a cave because it is a dark and scary place to live! Do NOT—I repeat—Do NOT go in there! It is alluring, I know. We all experience a sense of overwhelm from time to time, and it’s easy to put one thing off. Then two things.

This tip, from Activities, Games, and Assessment Strategies for the Foreign Language Classroom, by Amy Buttner, provides you with a version of Connect Four that you can play with your students while helping them gain confidence in their ability to define and conjugate important verbs!

The following blog post was written by Eye On Education's Senior Editor, Lauren Davis.

At the NCTE convention last month, everyone was buzzing about the Common Core State Standards. Teachers wanted to know how the new standards will alter what they teacher and how they teach it.

To gather answers to those questions, I attended a variety of NCTE sessions, and I spoke to educators across the country. Here's what I learned. To meet the CCSS, teachers should...

Amy Benjamin is the author of Math in Plain English: Literacy Strategies for the Mathematics Classroom. In this video tip, Amy teaches us about the importance of literacy and math.

Amy Benjamin asks the question: Why is math considered something that is seperate from literacy and language? In this video, we learn why this is a problem for verbal learners.The understanding of math needs to be carried through language. How do we teach math this way?

The following guest post is written by Barbara R. Blackburn and Ron Williamson, Eye On Education's best-selling authors of Rigorous Schools and Classrooms: Leading the Way.

As a school leader, how can you shape the culture of your school to help increase the level of rigor in your school? The culture of a school is a powerful tool for shaping the behavior of those who work there because it reflects the important values and underlying assumptions of that school.

February 11 is National Inventors’ Day, and what better day to celebrate than on the birthday of prolific American inventor Thomas Edison? Born in Ohio in 1847, Edison received 1093 patents in the United States and 2332 worldwide during his lifetime.

In our monthly E-News, we bring you the latest education news, resources, and classroom ideas from the Eye On Education Blog and other blogs we read. Click below for our favorite educational blog posts from the past month.

Barbara R. Blackburn, best-selling author of Rigor is NOT a Four-Letter Word and Rigorous Schools and Classrooms: Leading the Way, will be presenting on Common Core State Standards... Only the Beginning during Eye On Education's upcoming online conference: Eye On School Success.

Want to learn more about Barbara's upcoming presentation, Common Core State Standards... Only the Beginning? Check out the video below for a sneak peak at her presentation.

In his book Lead On! Motivational Lessons for School Leaders Pete Hall shares his wisdom, insights, and lessons lived and learned with school leaders at all stages of their careers. This tip gives school leaders six tips for reminding you why you love your job, and how to make it fun again!