— “Students come to us with varying skill levels. Some are exceptionally gifted. but more often my students come to me with several learning deficits. By being able to pinpoint which areas a student needs most growth in, I can then accommodate towards [their] needs. [This] allows me to teach all my students equitably."

—Dec. 7, 2018

Students know that they have a window of 8 minutes after the tardy bell rings when coming my Biology class in order to complete their warm-ups. Therefore I often see students hustling and rushing to make sure they come to my class on time.”

—Dec. 7, 2018

Students are given a timed warm-up which shuts off automatically after a certain time frame. This results in more students coming to class on time in order to complete it. I have also had situations where students are completing the warm-up on their phone before they get to class because they are tardy. So even though they are not in class on time they are participating in class remotely.

—Dec. 11, 2018

My students know that I have bell work q's (as a review or preview to lessons) when they come in. They know it will close 7-10 minutes after the bell--so they know they need to be on time"

—Dec. 17, 2018

My warm-ups and assessments are graded instantly. It takes about 1 minute to grade each student's warm up. I have 120 students enrolled in Biology. Daily this feature saves me 2 hours worth of grading. Weekly, that is 10 hours of grading. Monthly, this is 40 hours. On grading warm-ups alone, I save at least 400 hours yearly. That is a lot of time that I can use towards my aspects of improving my instruction and curriculum.

—Dec. 7, 2018