Articles by: Annie Galvin Teich

Female teacher helps student with laptop computer assignment as others students work on their laptops.

Curated Content Decreases Teacher Planning Time

By Annie Galvin Teich

Teachers love the new curated content channels.

Bring Parent Communication into the 21st Century

By Annie Galvin Teich

How a single communication app can help a school build relationships and trust (and gets rid of the Friday Folder).

Use Data Driven Instruction and Social Emotional Learning to Accelerate Student Growth

By Annie Galvin Teich

Beaumont has been using a scripted data-driven instruction (DDI) protocol for several years to guide conversations in their PLCs.

Feature: Districts Share Student Data Security Practices

By Annie Galvin Teich

Parents and educators read about the latest security breaches every day in news headlines.

Repurposing School Libraries As Vibrant Hubs and Centers of Change

By Annie Galvin Teich

One of the issues that district leaders tackled in Philadelphia at the June Tech & Learning Leadership Summit was how to change pedagogy to support new kinds of learning that technology has enabled.

The Benefits of Digital Reading

By Annie Galvin Teich

New Projector Technology Increases Student Engagement

By Annie Galvin Teich

Student Entrepreneurs Pitch Business Ideas to Investors

By Annie Galvin Teich

Students at Mountain Brook (AL) high school learn how to vet a business idea, design a business, and pitch the business to investors in a unique entrepreneurial curriculum.

Feature: Launching Digital Portfolios District Wide

By Annie Galvin Teich

After incubating the idea in his district’s strategic plan, Dr. Chris Wasko, Instructional Project Manager in Wake County (NC) Public Schools, helped launch a digital portfolio initiative involving 700 teachers from 187 schools.

Changing Pedagogy— Supporting Teachers in New Ways with Technology

By Annie Galvin Teich

Forward-thinking schools are using technology to change how teachers and students interact and work together as well as to help students take more responsibility for their own learning.

Two kids wearing virtual reality headsets point upward

FEATURE: Rethinking Instruction and Learning and Digital Tools

By Annie Galvin Teich

educators gathered around a laptop computer

FEATURE: Leadership Roundtable: Digital Equity

By Annie Galvin Teich

The focus of the roundtable was to share strategies for addressing digital equity in their districts as they seek to close the equity gap for gender, economics, and diverse student communities.

Leadership Roundtable: Digital Equity

By Annie Galvin Teich

At the monthly T&L Leader Hangout, district leaders gathered for an online roundtable.

SEL: A Leadership Roundtable

By Annie Galvin Teich

School leaders discuss their district approaches to Social Emotional Learning.