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Digital Cleanup and Setup
Your digital classroom probably has more clutter than you realize — half-used apps, expired logins, a Drive that hasn’t been organized in years. Here’s how to clean it up before the first bell rings.
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Getting Ready for the New School Year, Part 1: Reset & Reflect
Look back before you look forward… Grab a notebook or open a blank doc and answer three questions about last year: What actually worked? What did you keep meaning to try but never got to? What drained you?
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📗 Part 2: Five Assessment Shifts That Make Learning AI‑Resilient (and More Meaningful)
If Part 1 exposed the cracks, Part 2 is about rebuilding — with strategies that make learning stronger, more authentic, and far less vulnerable to AI outsourcing. Here are five shifts educators can implement right now. 1. Anchor Assessments to the Specific AI can write a great essay on fast fashion. It cannot reference the…
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📘 Part 1: AI Didn’t Break Assessment — It Exposed What Was Already Broken
For years, educators have quietly wrestled with a truth we didn’t want to admit: many traditional assessments reward task completion, not real learning. Then came agentic AI — tools capable of logging into LMS platforms, navigating assignments, interpreting prompts, and submitting work without the student ever engaging. AI didn’t break assessment. It simply made the…
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📘 Blog Series: Mastering Canva Whiteboards for Collaborative PD
Part 2 — How to Create and Share a Canva Whiteboard (Step‑by‑Step Guide) TLDR: This post walks educators through creating, customizing, and sharing a whiteboard with colleagues. Body: Setting up a Canva Whiteboard takes only a few clicks: This post focuses on clarity and confidence: educators learn exactly how to set up a collaborative board…
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📘 Blog Series: Mastering Canva Whiteboards for Collaborative PD
Part 1 — Why Canva Whiteboards Are the CPD Tool Schools Didn’t Know They Needed TLDR: This post introduces the problem educators face with traditional virtual whiteboards and explains why Canva’s collaborative whiteboard solves it. Collecting staff input during PD sessions can be surprisingly difficult. Zoom’s built‑in whiteboard tools are often limited or locked behind…
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🧔♂️ From Data to Decisions: Why Educators Deserve Better Tools
Posted: September 21, 2025Author: Eric Verno 📚 The Problem Isn’t the Data—It’s the DisconnectEvery week, educators collect mountains of student data. Assessment scores, attendance logs, behavior notes, benchmark results. But too often, that data sits in silos—unread, unshared, and unused. Not because teachers don’t care. Because the tools don’t help.We don’t need more spreadsheets. We…
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ISTE 2025 on the Horizon
OK… Getting my bags packed and ready to go… CUE MUSIC – HA! I’m heading to San Antonio, Texas for another ISTE. I’m very excited to represent PAECT during this trip, yet again. We have accomplished a lot of things this past year and are looking forward to an amazing year to come. I will…
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ISTE Bound
I’m spending some time getting ready for the yearly traverse to ISTE. I’m very appreciative of the organization and how it has held our PAECT org and it’s members to a high regard. I will be presenting, “From Creation to Curation, Podcasts in the Classroom” again this year! I LOVE that we get to share…
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The latest PAECT Pod
Last night Dom and I had the pleasure of interviewing Miriam Krause of Remake Learning Days and Laura Fririci who is the Career Ready Advisor for Pennsylvania Department of Educaiton. We had great conversations about the program and it’s many benefits. We also had the chance to cover some Teacher Appreciation week items. I will
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