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  • Operant Conditioning in the Classroom

Skinner’s Theory of Operant Conditioning in the Classroom

August 12, 2026|

You have likely used, or seen, teachers transform and improve behaviors using a simple sticker chart as a rewards system. You might have also seen how a student’s behavior improves after you focus on providing consistent and specific praise. Positive and negative behaviors in your classroom don’t typically come out of nowhere, and much of what your students do is actually shaped by what happens before they do it and whether the behavior is followed by something like a reward, a consequence, or a specific action. One well-studied framework for understanding student behaviors comes from B.F. Skinner’s theory of operant conditioning, which describes how what comes after the behavior is what makes that behavior more or less likely to happen. In this article, you will learn about operant conditioning and why it can be beneficial to understand in your classroom.

  • Instructional Teaching Strategies

Instructional Strategies and Teaching Strategies in Your Classroom

July 31, 2026|

Instructional strategies are research-based methods that teachers use to deliver content to students and improve their instructional practice. But it also goes further than that, because by combining classroom management strategies, assessment strategies, and other brain-based and memory-based strategies to support students, they all work together to improve the classroom and increase learning. This article serves as a resource to understand how strong instructional and other teaching strategies translate to student success in your classroom. (Read more)

  • What is Rigor

What Is Rigor? Understanding Rigor Through Webb’s DOK

July 16, 2026|

As a teacher plans a reading unit for her upcoming class, she decides to increase the rigor of her planned lesson activities. Since the text she chose contains many unfamiliar words, students are tasked with reading a passage, listing the unfamiliar words, and defining them using their dictionaries. She decides that instead of requiring students to choose five words to define, she will require students to define ten words this time. (Read more)

  • Model Teaching - Geography Study

Building Geography Knowledge: Retrieval Practice of Countries, Regions, and Geographical Features

June 24, 2026|

Imagine a middle school teacher finishes a unit on East Asia. Students had been working on identifying and locating physical and geographic features on a map, like landforms, bodies of water, and urban centers, as well as identifying the location of countries around the world. In this unit, the teacher described the region’s monsoon climate, and students learned why its rivers support a denser population than in other areas. While students are engaged in the content throughout the unit and analyze a map of the region as they discuss its features, they have a hard time identifying geographic features on their own. For example, when the teacher projects a blank map onto the board and asks students to identify the Yellow Sea or label countries like China, Japan, and North and South Korea, many students are unable to do so, even though they discussed these areas in class extensively. (Read More)

  • Think Pair Share Model

Think-Pair-Share- More Than a Discussion Starter

June 17, 2026|

We all know the Think-Pair-Share! It’s a common student collaboration strategy that is seemingly ubiquitous across classrooms. But it has been around long enough that many teachers will treat it as routine to incorporate into the classroom, rather than thinking more deeply about it as a true learning strategy. (read more)

  • Think Pair Share Webinar

Webinar: Thinking Together: The Think-Pair-Share Model

June 16, 2026|

In this Model Teaching Spotlight webinar, you will explore Think-Pair-Share as a research-backed collaborative learning model and learn how to implement it effectively in any classroom. You will consider some elements that determine whether a collaboration activity produces strong learning, evaluate the kind of prompts you might build to promote higher-order thinking and peer discourse, and consider how you might use the think-pair-share collaborative structure to engage your students.

  • AI Prompting Teaching

AI Prompts for Differentiated Lesson Plans

April 13, 2026|

Teachers are quickly realizing how much time AI tools can save them. This includes lesson planning, creating student-facing documents, and even helping with direct instruction. AI tools are nowhere close to a solution for all the challenges a teacher may face in the classroom, but they can help in several areas, particularly when it comes to planning and creating plans, lessons, or assessments for their students. Perhaps one of the best ways AI can be leveraged in the classroom is through creating customized and highly differentiated lessons and content for the various student groups all teachers find within their classroom.

  • Differentiation Tech Tools Blog

Tech Tools to Support Differentiation in Your Classroom

April 7, 2026|

Differentiation is a general term for an instructional approach in which teachers tailor curriculum, teaching methods, and assessments to meet the diverse needs of students in their classrooms. Between tracking student data, creating varied materials, and managing multiple groups, you may feel like differentiation in your classroom can be overwhelming! The good news is that technology can be your ally. The right edtech tools can streamline many differentiation tasks, from grouping students based on learning profiles to generating leveled content to creating varied assessments. These tools don’t replace your expertise as a teacher, but they do enhance it by handling the time-consuming logistics so you can focus on what matters most: teaching. In this article, we’ll explore five tech tools that support different aspects of differentiation. Whether you need help grouping students, creating accessible content, varying your instructional processes, designing diverse assessments, or supporting students with IEPs, there’s a tool here that can make your life easier.

  • AI Tools for Teachers

Webinar: Building Simple AI Tools for Teachers

March 3, 2026|

In this webinar, you will learn how using AI prompting can save you time on many different teaching tasks, including differentiation and lesson planning. You will learn the concept of the mega prompt and how to use AI specifically to help train other AI tools to produce a better result. You will also look at two specific examples and be provided with 2 dozen additional examples of how AI can help increase your productivity.

  • Fizzy Learning Geography

Using Geography Memorization as a Way to Master Historical Concepts

February 2, 2026|

In today’s history classroom, students are expected to analyze global conflicts, explain change over time, and understand the roots of major events. When students cannot locate countries on a map, history can feel abstract because they struggle to picture how borders, regions, and geography shape what happens. Intentional practice memorizing countries, cities, and regions helps students build that mental map so they can connect more deeply with history, current events, and global issues. This article explains why geography memorization matters and highlights technology tools that can support students as they learn these concepts.

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