Harbor High School, an Organized Binder school in Santa Cruz, CA has committed to "Setting the Purpose" of each lesson they teach. We are honored that the incredible staff at Harbor High School adopted Organized Binder to help them make this goal a reality:
March 2015 NEWSLETTER TIP: CREATE VALUE IN YOUR STARTING ROUTINE "...having a starting routine that has value will help you start class on time and greatly reduce classroom management issues that so often plague the first few minutes of class." In 2011 Louis Menand published an article in The New Yorker (Live and Learn: Why we […]
SCHOOL PROFILE School: Mount Clemens High School | Mount Clemens | Michigan Demographic: 75% minority students, 79% Socioeconomically Disadvantaged, and nearly three quarters of student body participate in the Free Lunch program. Background: Mount Clemens High School for a number of years has suffered from declining enrollment. The school is serving some of the region north of Detroit's most […]
BACKGROUND A few weeks ago an exasperated parent of a middle school student contacted us here at Organized Binder. She had witnessed Organized Binder: Teacher being used in the classroom and hoped to bring the same academic success to her son, who was struggling in middle school. After implementing Organized Binder: Student with her son the very […]
FEBRUARY 2015 NEWSLETTER TIP: WAITING TO REVEAL THE KICK-OFF PROMPT "Try this with your Kick-Off prompt: wait for the class to become quiet, the bell to ring, then reveal the prompt and mandate that everyone do it together and see what happens." Roberto was a student in my freshman Integrated Science class a few years […]
ORGANIZATION PROFILE Organization: TeacherEntreprenuer.com Focus: Empowering Teachers Through Entrepreneurship [divider] INTERVIEW Mitch is featured at TeacherEntreprenuer.com. He shares his experience designing the system in his classroom to the evolution of the company Organized Binder. Mitch shares tips for aspiring teacher entrepreneurs and insights from his own experiences as a business owner. You can read his interview here or by following the link […]
This past Monday Juliet Gomez, an ELD teacher at Woodside High School in Woodside, CA (remember Waiting for Superman?) attended a training to get her questions answered about Organized Binder. The next day in class she implemented the system in her classroom and sent us this email: “Thank you so much! The training was very helpful […]
We recently received this feedback from an Organized Binder teacher who started using this system this school year. We are keeping the teacher anonymous but thought you would enjoy reading it as well! "I think things are going well in my classroom with Organized Binder! I'm sure not perfect, and I'm trying to do some personal […]
TEACHER PROFILE Teacher: Elizabeth (Lizzy) Kelly School: Connect Community Charter School | Redwood City | California Years Teaching: 2 [divider] BACKGROUND Lizzy Kelly is a second year teacher and part of a small team that started Connect Community Charter School in arguably the most underserved neighborhood in Redwood City, CA. Surrounded by increasingly affluent cities, Lizzy and Connect Charter School serve a […]
Diane Nienhuis, a veteran high school Spanish teacher and longtime Organized Binder Teacher was featured in our news feed in December of 2013. She recently sent the following report to us and we thought we would share it with you: "Glad to hear you're busy! I hope it's all Organized Binder stuff because the Organized Binder IS AMAZING! […]
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