Secondary Science Simplified™
By Rebecca Joyner, High School Science Teacher
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Episodes: 183
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Secondary Science Simplified is a podcast specifically for high school science teachers that will help you to engage your students AND simplify your life as a secondary science educator. Each week Rebecca, from It's Not Rocket Science, and her guests will share practical and easy-to-implement strategies for decreasing your workload so that you can stop working overtime and start focusing your energy doing what you love - actually teaching! Teaching doesn't have to be rocket science, and you'll learn exactly what you need to do to simplify your secondary science teaching life so that you can enjoy your life outside of school even more. Head to itsnotrocketscienceclassroom.com/challenge to grab your FREE Classroom Reset Challenge.
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182. End the Year Organized: Your Resources
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May 12, 2025 |
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181. What to Do When Your Job Feels Stale (And Maybe Even Boring)
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May 05, 2025 |
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180. Unpacking the NGSS With Christina Agurcia of Make Them Think
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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179. Unpacking the NGSS: Phenomena and Storylines
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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178. Unpacking the NGSS: SEPs and CCCs
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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177. Unpacking the NGSS: What High School Science Teachers Need to Know
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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176. Teaching AP Biology, Exam Review, FRQ Prep and MORE With Tiffany of AP Bio Penguins
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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175. How and WHY I Teach Students to Take Notes
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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174. 7 Ways to Teach Your Students to Use AI Productively
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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173. 9 Quick Ways to Use AI to Simplify Your Life as a Teacher
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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172. Content-Specific Differentiation Tips
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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171. Differentiating Within One Class Period (And How to Not Make It Obvious)
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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170. Differentiating for Lower Achieving Students (Without Lowering the Bar)
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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169. Differentiating for Higher Achieving Students (That Isn’t Just Extra Work)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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168. Differentiation in Your Science Classroom - Simple Tips to Decrease Overwhelm
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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167. Teacher Mental Health With Guest Dr. Hayley Watson
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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166. How to Use Your Students to Work Smarter Rather Than Harder
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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165. How Naming What Matters Most Can Change the Rest of Your School Year
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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164. My Top Tips for Kicking Off a New Semester
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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163. What I Wish I Knew in My First Year of Teaching High School Science: 5 Simple Tips
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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162. 5 Essential Teacher Hacks for High School and Middle School Science Teachers
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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161. Relief for the Burdened Teacher: How to Deal With Caring More Than Your Students Do
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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160. 4 Proven Tips to INSTANTLY Decrease Your Grading Time
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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159. My TOP TIPS for Helping Students Learn and Retain DENSE Topics in Your Science Classes
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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158. How to NOT Feel Like You Are Teaching to the Test
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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157. Serving ELLs With AI and MORE With Guest Alyse of Keystone Science
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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156. What to Do When You Are Micromanaged by Your Admin or District
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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155. How to Create Active and Accountable Learners in Your Secondary Science Classroom
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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154. AI and Chat GPT With Guest Mitch Wieland
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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153. How to Make Boring Topics More Engaging
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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152. Absences - How to Deal With Them
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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151. Ask Me Anything! Part 2: Differentiated Instruction, Difficult Conversations, Work/Life Balance, and More!
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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150. Ask Me Anything! Part 1: Difficult Coworkers, Engaging Labs, Classroom Management Strategies, and More!
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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149. Teaching on a Block Schedule - Why It’s Not as Bad as You Think
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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148. When You Have Too Much to Do and Too Little Time
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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147. Content Coverage - How to Get Through All of the Standards
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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146. How to Nail Your Next Observation - Planned or Unannounced
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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145. How to Build Resilience in Students Post-Pandemic
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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144. 4 Ways Having “No Rules” Has Changed My Life (And Could Change Your School Year)
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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143. My Top 5 Favorite Teacher Hacks for the New School Year
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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142. Reflections From a First-Year AP Teacher With Guest Laura Tice
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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141. First Day of School Tips + What I Cover in My First Units of the Year
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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140. 5 Tips for Teaching Chemistry
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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139. Sunday Scaries - How I Use Friday Planning to Prevent Them
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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138. Serving Future You - How to Work Smarter, Not Harder
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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137. Work/Life Balance as a Mom and AP Teacher With Guest Kimberly Leary
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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136. Building a Team Mindset Into Your Classroom Culture
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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135. Using Anticipatory Conversations to Diffuse Classroom Chaos
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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134. Prioritizing Relationships Over Being Right
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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133. Using Refrains When Teaching
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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132. End-of-Year Personal Reflection - 6 Questions to Ask Yourself
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May 27, 2024 |
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131. End-of-Year Resource Audit
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May 20, 2024 |
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130. First Year Teaching? 5 Things I Wish I Had Known
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May 13, 2024 |
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129. 4 Things I Learned From Other Teachers That Changed How I Teach
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May 06, 2024 |
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128. Admin Appreciation - The Best Ways My Admin Ever Supported Me
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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127. Teaching AP Chemistry With Guest Zach Matson
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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126. Teaching AP Environmental Science With Guest Ashton Allgood
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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125. Teaching AP Biology With Guest Beth Hines
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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124. Teaching AP Physics With Guest Laura Preiser
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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123. What to Do When You Care More Than Your Students Do
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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122. How to Nail Your Teacher Job Interview + 3 Mock Lesson Ideas
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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121. Burned Out? When It’s Time to Make a Change
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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120. How to Cut Your Grading Time in Half
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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119. Increasing Retention - How to Get Students to Remember Dense Topics
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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118. CER: What It Is, and Why I Never Explicitly Taught It
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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117. How to Prep for a Long-Term Substitute Who Doesn’t Teach Science
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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116. Behind Schedule? What to Do and How to Prevent It in the Future
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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115. How to Act Confident When You’re Not
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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114. How to Bounce Back After You Mess Up
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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113. What to Do When You Have No Energy - Truths for the Classroom
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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112. What to Do When You Have No Energy - Systems for the Home
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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111. Priorities and Boundaries in the New Year
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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110. How to Manage a Classroom of Apathetic Students
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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109. 10 Questions to Ask Yourself as You Reflect Over Your Course Sequence
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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108. 5 Must-Have Routines and Procedures for Secondary Teachers
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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107. NGSS and Standards-Based Grading With Guest Boni Hamilton
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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106. Standards-Based Grading, Citizenship Grades, Motivation and MORE With Guest Jennica Harrison
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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105. What Happened When I Stopped Assigning Formal Lab Reports
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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104. Using Summative Assessments to Prepare Students for Standardized Tests
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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103. Authentic Assessments: How to Assess Students in a Way That Actually Matters
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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102. Tips for Teaching Waves and Kinematics in Your Physics Class With Guest Laura Preiser
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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101. 6 Tips for Teaching Stoichiometry in Your Chemistry Class
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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100. Your Questions Answered: Grading, Challenging Behaviors, Leave, Favorite Labs, Supporting ELs and MORE!
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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99. How to Teach the Nervous and Endocrine Systems in Your Anatomy Class
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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98. 5 Tips for Teaching Biochemical Reactions in Your Biology Class
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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97. 6 Grading Tips That Changed My Life
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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96. Why I Stopped Assigning Homework (And 6 Surprising Results)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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95. How to STOP Grading Everything
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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94. How to Deal with Cheating in Your High School Science Classes
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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93. Simple Strategies for Classroom Management
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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92. 5 Ways to Have Precise Pacing and Tight Transitions in your Secondary Science Classroom
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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91. My Top 5 Classroom Management Routines and Procedures for High School Science Teachers
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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90. Classroom Management Philosophy for Secondary Science Teachers
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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89. Classroom Management in a Post-COVID World with Guest Casey O’Hearn
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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88. PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION: Part 5
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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87. Aligning Your Assessments: Curriculum Design Part 5
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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86. PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION: Part 4
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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85. Building Out Your Backbone: Curriculum Design Part 4
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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84. PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION: Part 3
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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83. Forming Your Foundation: Curriculum Design Part 3
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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82. PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION: Parts 1 and 2
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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81. Analyzing Your Aims: Curriculum Design Part 2
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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80. Strategizing Your Sequence: Curriculum Design Part 1
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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79. 4 Ways to Use Your Summer Well
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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78. Our LEAST Favorite Topics to Teach & How We Approach Them with Guest Sam Holcomb of Engineer Does Education
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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77. 5 Myths You Might Believe About Your Work Email
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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76. How Did You Do This Year?
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May 29, 2023 |
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75. End of Year Classroom CLEANOUT Without the FREAKOUT
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May 22, 2023 |
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74. My #1 Way to Simplify Future Lab Days
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May 15, 2023 |
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73. Teacher Appreciation Week Gone Wrong
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May 08, 2023 |
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72. Review Strategies for EOC, Benchmark, and AP Exams
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May 01, 2023 |
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71. "I'm the Problem, It's Me": Working with Difficult Coworkers and Admin with Guest Zach Matson
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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70. “It isn’t an Attack on You”: Dealing with Difficult Parents with Guest Zach Matson
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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69. Admin Support - WHY You Need to Ask, HOW to Ask, and WHAT to Ask For
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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68. Evaluating Your Teaching Contract
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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67. Considering a Teacher Career Change with guest Daphne Gomez, the Teacher Career Coach
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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66. Tips for Teaching at a Public School vs. a Private School
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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65. Considering Switching Schools? 10 Questions to Think Through
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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64. How to Re-Engage Apathetic Students (and Manage Your Own Apathy!)
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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63. Teaching and ADHD - Practical Tips for You AND Your Students with Guest Bri Plyler
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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62. 5 Ways to Instantly Make Your Planning Period More Productive
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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61. Rethinking Demos and More with Guest Dr. Erica Colón
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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60. Teaching with Packets - What They Are, Why I Love Them, and How to Use Them
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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59. From Burned Out to Burned-In with Guest Amber Harper
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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58. Midyear Reflections and Reset
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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57. Living and Working in Your Current Season
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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56. Scheduling Rest – Why You Need to and How To Do It
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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55. Goal Setting for the New Year - a Different Approach
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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54. Your Top 5 Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2022
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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53. School Counselor Partnerships, Life Hacks, and Laughter with Guest Lauren Tingle
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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52. Why NOT to Assign Work Over Breaks
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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51. 5 Alternatives to Traditional Midterm Exams
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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50. Ask Me Anything! All YOUR Questions Answered!
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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49. Visuals, Middle School, Maternity Leave, and MORE with Guest Rachael Lasky
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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48. 5 Ways to Reclaim Your Class Time
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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47. 2 Ways That Learning Happens and How to Create a Classroom Culture That Fosters It
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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46. Incorporating STEAM as Secondary Teachers with Guest Dr. Sarah Habibi
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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45. Using Phenomena to Engage Students
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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44. Engaging Small Classes: What to Do When You Only Have a Few Students
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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43. How to Manage Large Classes: What to do When You Have WAY Too Many Students
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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42. What to Do if You Hate What You Teach
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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41. 4 Practical Tips for Building Relationships with Your High School Students
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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40. How to Reach EVERY Learner in Your Classroom
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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39. Organization Tips for Your Science Classroom
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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38. A Beginning of the year PEP TALK
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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37. Teaching Physics and FUN with Guest Michelle Brosseau
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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36. Teaching Anatomy: 5 Tips for the Best Year EVER!
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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35. Competency, Classroom Management, Teaching Chemistry and MORE with Guest Zach Matson
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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34. Teaching Biology - 4 Things NOT to Do
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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33. 5 Mistakes to Avoid at the Beginning of the School Year
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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32. Student-Centered Pedagogy: One Way to Start
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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31. Student Centered Pedagogy: How to do It
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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30. Student-Centered Pedagogy: Why Make the Shift
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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29. Student-Centered Pedagogy: What it is
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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28. Using Summer Productively
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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27. How the Secondary Science Simplified Course Helped This New Teacher with Guest Rachel Carter
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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26. Leaving Work at Work
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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25. The Importance of Proactivity
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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24. A Look Inside the Secondary Science Simplified Course with 14-Year Teacher, Nikki Pryor
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May 30, 2022 |
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23. Ending the Year Strong by Setting Summer Rocks and Boundaries
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May 23, 2022 |
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22. Ending the Year Strong by Resetting Your Classroom
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May 16, 2022 |
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21. Ending the Year Strong by Auditing Your Lessons
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May 09, 2022 |
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20. Ending the Year Strong by Reflecting on Your Procedures
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May 02, 2022 |
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19. Collaboration, Classroom Management, Career Changes and MORE with Guest Jamie Whitlock
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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18. What to Do After End of Year Testing with Students
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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17. Celebrating Earth Day in Your Secondary Science Classes
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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16. 5 Strategies for Pain-Free Sub Plans
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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15. Teaching Seniors, AP Biology, and MORE with Diana Price
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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14. Combating Senioritis Part 3: Saving the Best for Last
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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13. Combating Senioritis Part 2: Using Student-Centered Activities
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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12. Combating Senioritis Part 1: Getting Students Outside and Changing up Lecture
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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11. Balancing Multiple Preps with Sam Holcomb of Engineer Does Education
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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10. Balancing Multiple Preps: How to Manage Grading
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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9. Balancing Multiple Preps: How to Lesson Plan
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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8. Balancing Multiple Preps: Where to Focus Your Energy
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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7. Making 1D Lessons 3D with Skipper Coates of Real Ms. Frizzle
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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6. Engaging Students in Lecture
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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5. Engaging Your Students - Without Exhausting Yourself
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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4. Engaging Your Students - In the First 5 Minutes of Class
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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3. Midyear Reset Part 2
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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2. Midyear Classroom Reset Part 1
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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1. The Story of It's Not Rocket Science®️ and Secondary Science Simplified™️
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Welcome to Secondary Science Simplified!
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Nov 22, 2021 |