There’s still time to make changes in your classroom! Whether you’re heading back to school, coming off a holiday break, or maybe you’re smack dab in the middle of a school year, I know it’s easy to feel “locked in” and unable to make any changes. This is fairly common. As the stress of the year increases, it feels like … Read More
8 Tips for the Part-Time Teacherpreneur
Being a teacherpreneur can be exciting, scary, and nerve-racking all at the same time. Building something from scratch can take some time. As a teacher, your passion is in the classroom, which means you’ll most likely start off as what we call a sidepreneur, or someone who is an entrepreneur “on the side”, meaning on the side of their full-time … Read More
4 Rules for Communicating With Your Staff
How do you communicate with your staff? If you spend any significant amount of time with educators, you know that we value relationships. Building strong relationships with students is critical for creating a learning environment that is positive, effective, and impactful. In real estate, location is everything, right? Location, location, location! In education, relationships are everything. Relationships, relationships, relationships! And … Read More
Why I Love Failure as A Teacher (video)
Why do I love failure as a teacher? Oh, let me count the ways! Full transcript below video. Video Transcript Hey guys it’s Tiffany Ott. I am so excited to be here with you today, I am talking about one of my favorite topics to talk with educators and students about, and that’s failure, and I have to tell you, … Read More
Do Your EdTech Tools Serve a Purpose?
EdTech is awesome. In the last 20 years, amazing developments in the world of technology have made it something that we can use to transform the learning process for our students. While there are still students with very limited access to technology, those numbers are shrinking by the day, and the ubiquitousness of tech tools has become something that we … Read More