The LINC Blog

Important News: LINCspring Unveils a Wealth of New Content for Educators!

By Scott Noon

LINC is thrilled to announce that we have been hard at work expanding the LINCspring coaching and professional learning platform over the past year. We are delighted to share with you the impressive ...

The Benefits of Bite-Sized Learning

By Charity Dodd

Lately I’ve been reading about microlearning or bite-sized learning for students in the classroom. Microlearning in the K-12 classroom is characterized by the use of small, focused lessons that are ...

How Can I Increase Authenticity in My Lessons?

By Jennifer Bernier

The days of teachers being the sole audience or receiver of student work are long gone… well at least they should be. Authentic learning goes far beyond the four walls of the classroom and is much ...

Are We Silencing Critical Thinking?

By Cassondra Corbin-Thaddies

Are we silencing critical thinking in our classrooms? Critical thinking enables us to think deeply about something, using our brains to peel back the layers of what’s in front of us. Critical ...

Tips for Teaching Social Studies in Remote or Hybrid Classrooms

By Alex Valacer

At the start of remote learning in the spring, my district was delayed in announcing its official plan because of the need to distribute adequate technology. During this delay, a colleague and I ...

Acceleration, Not Retention? The Case for Leveraging New Blended Learning Skills to Keep Students Moving Forward

By Rohiatou Siby

During a recent car ride to New York, I sat in the passenger’s seat while the driver kicked the speed up several notches out of my comfort zone, to better accommodate our time schedule. After ...

Building Student-Agency in Hybrid and Remote Classrooms

By Jennifer Wolfe

“I want my students to be more independent” and “I want my students to develop more intrinsic motivation.” These are comments I’m hearing from teachers across the country regardless of the model of ...

How do Data Cycles lead to Educational Equity?

By Carolyn Hanser

Data cycles-- sounds kind of scary, huh? I can vividly remember my second-year teacher self sitting in a professional development session. “Data, Data, Data” they said, naively thinking we’d be ...

"Connection Above Content" in Back to School

By Tiffany Wycoff

Since March, we have been in a whirlwind of system-wide disruptions. Schools and workspaces shut down suddenly, causing our daily lives to transition in many ways to live “stream” and our ...

How do I teach kids at home and at school at the same time?!?

By Meredith Lewis

If you’re one of the many teachers entering into an unprecedented hybrid learning environment, I am sure this question is top of your mind. For teachers coming out of a remote learning setting, it ...

Strategies for Teaching Math in Remote/Hybrid Learning Environments

By Ashley Clark

As we moved quickly online last spring, teaching math in the online environment was a scary idea to me. I remember panicking over not having my in-class resources such as my whiteboards, document ...

Reimagining and Designing Equitable Classrooms that Work for All Learners

By Cassondra Corbin-Thaddies

We’re at a pivotal moment of change in education where we can recalibrate and reimagine what education can mean for Black, Brown, and White students. Now more than ever, we are aware that the way we ...