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Strategic Shifts: Small Moves Leading to Meaninful Change
// Thursday, July 31, 2025 • E Posthuma
Welcome to the second installment of our (Re)Bootcamp series! In this post, three teachers share entry points into their larger pedagogical frameworks.  If you have wanted to try new approaches to teaching your content but feel overwhelmed by the idea of overhauling your entire curriculum, check out these "sample-size" activities! 
choose your framework
Choose Your Framework
// Thursday, July 10, 2025 • E Posthuma
Welcome to our (Re)Bootcamp series! Below, two different styles of content presentation are shared, along with a teacher’s reflection on how each works in their classroom and why they chose this particular style. Interactive Notebooks By Nora Walsh
After the Exam
What To Do After the Exams?
// Monday, May 26, 2025 • Nora Walsh
It’s mid-May, your dual credit and AP exams are done, but you still have weeks of school to go! What do you do? We’ve rounded up a few fun ideas that range in both content and type of activity.
A critical Look at Units
A Critical Look at Units
// Sunday, May 18, 2025 • Michael Jansen
Introduction The proper and consistent use of units throughout calculations is of paramount importance in physical science. This should be inculcated in students from the first day of class. As chemistry educators, we must—without fail—model the proper, consistent use of units and significant figures.1