It’s time for a new school year to begin – a fresh start for everyone! The beginning of the year is an exciting time to get settled in with your new group of scholars. There is usually a little underlying anxiety about what that group will hold. A few questions…

Let Shoelace Learning help you with planning by signing your class up for a FREE reading comprehension game that will keep them learning all year long. Popular Opinions With summer drawing to a close, my colleagues and I are starting to plan (or feel guilty that…

Class Missions, one of our favorite Premium Plan features, are coming to all educators for free  next week for a free trial from May 9th-13th, 2022. To get started, here's an overview of what they are, how to use them in your class, and some cool ideas from other educators to get the most out of them.

While everyone loves to relax in the summer heat and have lots of fun, it is also a time where our learning can slow down or stop completely. This phenomena is called the “summer slide”. While this is something we all should avoid, we’ve come up with some ways to…

What is the Summer Slide? The “summer slide” is a reading skills learning loss from children not maintaining their reading activities over summer. The average student falls behind one month’s worth of reading skills during the summer. As well as children in low income households losing double that. This is…

Melissa Saisuwan is a Grade 7 ELAR Teacher at Wichita Falls Independent School District in Wichita Falls, Texas Melissa discovered Dreamscape accidentally while looking for ways to help her struggling students with gaps in their learning. How and when do you use Dreamscape with your students? I usually use Dreamscape…

With the uncertainty of in-class learning resuming in the fall, preparing for the start of the school year is going to be challenging, especially when it relates to protecting your kiddos. Thankfully, the CDC has released a list of considerations that can be added to existing school rules and regulations to…

We are living in a time where we are experiencing rapid technological changes, and it can be a challenge to integrate these new technologies into a classroom setting. Computer technology is becoming more important in the classroom as a tool to stimulate good teaching and learning practices. Computers, the internet,…