Resources
Resources To Engage Students and Improve Learning
We provide a wide variety of lesson planning resources, professional learning courses and software solutions to help teachers engage their students and improve learning outcomes.
Lesson Planning Resources
Templates and Examples
These templates and examples lead you step by step as you create intentional learning experiences focused on active learning and effective feedback. Use our examples for inspiration, then customize the templates to make them your own, ready for your students with your content.
Grab and Go Lesson Plans
Get your students engaged with lesson plans that are ready to use in the classroom. Plans can be customized as you see fit, but come packed with active learning strategies, real-world skill development, and engaging out-of-the-box work.
Professional Learning Resources
Grab and Go Professional Learning Sessions
Support colleagues in your department who want to incorporate more active learning strategies. These session guides help make the strategy a reality with tangible examples. Try one in your next professional development session or team meeting.
How-Tos and Overviews
When you only have a few moments for independent professional learning, these are the guides for you. Learn more about practices that can make a big difference, along with the practical tips and first small steps you need to try new strategies in a busy classroom.
Teaching Tools
Feedback Forward
Research supports what teachers intuitively know: students who practice certain behaviors and habits, such as being engaged, prepared, and focused, have better learning outcomes. In order to encourage these behaviors, it’s important to track how students are progressing over time and provide them with individual feedback. Feedback Forward is a website and browser extension that enables teachers to provide students with quick and regular feedback.
Quest Forward
Students learn best when they are active and engaged in the learning process, and motivated to learn. Quest Forward is a website that helps teachers easily find and create lessons.It offers individual lessons, called quests, with projects and active learning that support skills development. It also includes collections, which are quests combined into units, projects, or courses.
Hear directly from high school teachers who actively use the Quest Forward Workspace every day.
“Students can see where they’re at and are able to see the feedback that I give them… Everything is laid out for them from the start. So I like it a lot. I’ve never had anything like this.”
Rachel, English Teacher
Omaha, NE
“I think it’s very empowering… it lets me know that I’m growing. With grades, you might get an A or a B or a C, but it doesn’t show growth necessarily. With this system… it shows, hey, I grew on that assignment.”
Paa Yaw, Student
Omaha, NE
“My relationship with my students is incredible… I’m able to collaborate with them, I’m able to get them on board with my teaching. It doesn’t feel like work, it’s actually fun. I look forward to every class.”
Max, Social Sciences Teacher
Santa Rosa, CA
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