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The first week of school is here! Now what should you do?

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Both Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and 504 Plans are designed to support students with disabilities, but they serve different purposes and are governed by different federal laws.

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework that helps teachers design lessons that are flexible and accessible for all learners from the very beginning. Rather than creating a lesson and then making ...

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The Danielson Framework for Teaching is one of the most widely used models for evaluating and supporting teacher effectiveness. Developed by educational consultant Charlotte Danielson, the framework provides a common lan...

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InspirED is proud to partner with Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) to offer graduate-level professional development courses. While our courses are not part of a degree program, they are offered in partnership wit...

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Many school districts offer teachers opportunities to increase their salary by earning graduate credits beyond their required degree. These salary increases, often called salary lane movement or salary advancement, rewar...

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Although both graduate credit and in-service hours provide valuable professional learning, they serve different purposes. Graduate credit is awarded by a college or university and can often be applied toward a master's d...

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Most New York teachers who hold a Professional Teaching Certificate are required to complete 100 hours of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) during each five-year registration period. These hours must be earn...

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Your first few years of teaching come with a lot of decisions.

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If you're like me, you find yourself writing the same emails again and again. Let's make this the year we get some of our precious time back! Creating a few go-to templates for the messages you send most often can save v...

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Stop answering every email immediately

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ChatGPT – https://chatgpt.com\nOne of the most versatile AI assistants available. Use it to create lesson plans, generate discussion questions, differentiate assignments, draft parent emails, create rubrics, brainstorm ac...

","url":"https://teachinspired.org/f/the-best-free-ai-tools-for-busy-teachers","title":"The Best FREE AI Tools for Busy Teachers","summary":"ChatGPT – https://chatgpt.com\nOne of the most versatile AI assistants available. Use it to create lesson plans, generate discussion questions, differentiate assignments, draft parent emails, create rubrics, brainstorm ac...","date_modified":"2026-08-10T16:21:55Z"},{"id":"https://teachinspired.org/f/navigating-technology-so-that-we-don%E2%80%99t-become-robots","html_content":"

Twenty-one years ago, I stepped into my very first classroom at Hauppauge High School and made sure I had everything I needed: an overhead projector, a white board (because blackboards were becoming dated) and one classr...

","url":"https://teachinspired.org/f/navigating-technology-so-that-we-don%E2%80%99t-become-robots","title":"Navigating Technology So That We Don’t Become Robots","summary":"Twenty-one years ago, I stepped into my very first classroom at Hauppauge High School and made sure I had everything I needed: an overhead projector, a white board (because blackboards were becoming dated) and one classr...","date_modified":"2026-08-10T16:20:28Z"},{"id":"https://teachinspired.org/f/10-chatgpt-prompts-every-teacher-should-save","html_content":"

It is not the generic prompts that will get you the handouts and lessons that will work in your classroom. Instead, it’s the detailed, stream-of-consciousness prompts that are specific to what you want and capture your ...

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If you haven’t already, Harry Wong’s First Days of School is mandatory teacher reading. And if you need some credits to motivate you, it’s on our list of in-service and graduate credits (so check out our course listings...

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We have all been there. You’ve been scrolling through Pinterest and thinking about how you should decorate the space that will define your career and the place you will call home for the next 180 days. When I started te...

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It’s estimated that teachers make over 1,500 education decisions each day; you are NOT going to get every one of them right.

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Trying to Be Friends Instead of the Teacher

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We all know the feeling: A pile of grading (ok, now it’s not a pile because it’s on the computer…but you know what I mean) and the feeling of dread you get when you look at it. It needs to be done. You told the kids you...

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If you're a Type A teacher like I am, maybe you can relate to the feeling of being satisfied with your career while still wondering what else is out there.

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