10 Surprising Curriculum Statistics That’ll Help Your School
Recently Chalk collaborated with Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs to bring thousands of educators free professional development seminars focusing on curriculum mapping. We wanted to share the curriculum statistics we learned ...
Your First Steps to Vertical Alignment
Let’s say you’re a pretty solid math student. You’ve mastered multiplication. You decimate decimals. Fractions are frictionless. Then, one day, your teacher starts a new unit: algebra. Now you’re struggling. ...
How to Deliver Effective Professional Development (PD)
Teacher professional development (PD) is arguably the most important investment a school can make in improving everything from test scores to student engagement to combating bullying or supporting at-risk populations. ...
10 Tips for Keeping Your Teachers Motivated
In today’s world, being a teacher is an incredible challenge. Beyond the day to day of teaching and marking, teachers are faced with students with behavioral or family issues, learning ...
How to Get Started: Meaningful Professional Development for Educators
Today, everyone talks of instilling a spirit of lifelong learning in students, introducing new and innovative ways to engage in the classroom, and taking education to the next level with ...
Creating a Curriculum Task Force to Develop Collaborative Curriculum Maps
The start of every school year brings countless learning opportunities to students, teachers, parents, and administrators. However, for teachers new to the industry or recently relocated to a new school or ...