🗑️ 100+ teaching ideas for class tomorrow

Introducing TeachAid 2.0: A Massive Leap in AI for Education

TeachAid has rebuilt its AI platform from the ground up to offer the ultimate all-in-one curricular solution: expertly crafted unit and lesson plans, visually engaging presentations, adaptive activities, and final assessments designed for real student choice.

With this leap forward, we’re excited to unveil three innovative features that set TeachAid 2.0 apart:

🚀 Interactive Classroom: Energize your teaching with real-time tools that foster dynamic, engaging lessons.

🎙️ Student Participation Tools: Amplify every student’s voice with features that drive creativity, collaboration, and meaningful contributions.

🎮️ Interactive Assignments & Activities: Transform learning with personalized, hands-on tasks that resonate with every learner.

TeachAid 2.0 isn’t just a platform; it’s the most significant advancement in how AI empowers educators and engages students. Built to save time, improve outcomes, and inspire excellence, it’s the leap forward the education world has been waiting for.

Sign up now to experience TeachAid and discover how AI is reshaping education for the better.

💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

💼 Our best Ditch That Textbook resources

I’m excited to share some incredible resources with you that will spark creativity and lighten your lesson planning load.

Whether you've been with us for a while or are new to the community, these resources are designed to inspire and engage both you and your students.

From innovative teaching ideas to handy templates and AI tools, we've got something for everyone. Dive in and discover how these resources can transform your classroom experience and make learning more enjoyable for your students.

And don’t worry, as a Ditch That Textbook subscriber there will be lots more dropping into your inbox each week!

📚Free ebooks

If you've been part of our #DitchBook family for a while, you might have already downloaded these resources. But if you're anything like me, you might have forgotten you even have them!

I'm confident that the ideas in these ebooks will lighten your lesson planning load in the coming days and weeks—and your students will love them!

1.The AI Teacher Toolkit: AI tools, activities, and time savers to help you focus your attention on what matters most — and engage your students in learning.

2. 100 Templates for Teachers: Lots of pre-made files you can copy (or download), adjust as necessary, and assign to students immediately

3. 101 Practical Ways to Ditch That Textbook: Lots of creative, techy teaching ideas you can use in class right away

4. Teaching with TEACHFLIX: A companion guide to our TEACHFLIX website. This guide includes several plug-and-play activities you can do with your students after watching almost any TEACHFLIX video. (Or almost any video you find on YouTube or other places, for that matter.)

5. Tomorrow Glasses Teacher Resource Pack: Help your students prepare for THEIR future, not ours. These resources will help align your classroom with the future.

6. The EfficienTEACH Toolkit: These templates, protocols and activities are those that you can use in class tomorrow to save time AND teach better.

Want to find all of them in one place?

Click here to view and download all of the ebooks.

🗄️The Ditch That Textbook Template Library

"Don't do the work if you don't have to" is the slogan for our template library.

With these activity templates, you can copy them, adjust them as necessary, and assign them to your students.

Did I mention they're all free? (You can save your TpT money for something else.)

Here are some of my favorites:

• Learn Like an Influencer Template Guides them through the steps and helps them showcase their knowledge from your class like a social media influencer.

• Jeopardy Game template Google Slides and PowerPoint can be used to create lots of different games. Try editing this one to create your own Jeopardy game.

• The Exit Ticket Builder A set of prompts to help students recall new learning and reflect on learning -- in a fun, creative way

• Interactive Resource Room Template Make important class resources easily accessible with this digital resource room, customizable to fit your needs and shareable with students through a link or your learning management system.

Get all of these templates and dozens more in our template library here.

💻Ditch That Textbook Resource Pages

🔐 Digital Escape Rooms

Discover and enjoy a variety of FREE games on our digital escape rooms page! You'll find links to each escape room, along with locks, answers, and explanations. It's a great idea to try one out as a class first, and then assign them to students in groups or individually.

🌎 Virtual Field Trips

Virtual field trips allow us to take our students on adventures we never thought possible. We can take our students under the ocean, across the globe and even into space. But sometimes finding the right virtual field trip, or even finding a virtual field trip at all, can be time consuming.

That's why we put together this growing database of virtual field trips you can take with your class!

🎮 Gamification

Gamification doesn't have to be intense or takeover your planning time. A simple Kahoot game or a Jeopardy style review is all it takes to add some game elements to your class.

There are so many options out there and so if you're looking for ways to bring game elements your class then you're in the right place! On our Gamification page you'll find:

• Our favorite posts with tons of tips and ideas for how to gamify your class.

• Tools for instant gamification.

• Templates you can adapt to fit your class.

🤖 Heretical Leadership: Transforming Education

In today's rapidly evolving world, education stands at a critical crossroads. To navigate this transformation, we need heretical leaders—those who dare to challenge the status quo and drive systemic change.

In today’s guest post, Dan Fitzpatrick shares that heretical leaders drive change through:

• Visionary thinking

• Courage to challenge the norm

• Strategic disruption

• Empathetic transformation

To support this transformation, Dan outlines a transformation toolkit that outlines why it’s essential to conduct practice audits, build collaborative coalitions, use compelling storytelling, implement pilot programs, and empower stakeholders.

The ultimate goal? Prepare students for a dynamic, AI-driven world by breaking down outdated educational barriers and creating more responsive, inclusive learning environments.

Dan shares how deeper into leading educational change in the AI era in his guest post The Rise of the Heretical Leader.

The ideas from this post draw from his new book, Infinite Education: The Four-Step Strategy for Leading Change in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

👋 How we can help

There are even more ways I can support you in the important work you do in education:

1. Read one of my six books about meaningful teaching with tech.

2. Take one of our online courses about practical and popular topics in education.

3. Bring me to your school, district or event to speak. I love working with educators!