Welcome to our Good Ideas Database

Make our collaborative database your place for searching for and sharing the brainstorms, inspirations, and innovations that have led to deeper student understanding in your school or classroom.

Is there a learning experience that has enabled your students to perform with understanding? Have you created a dynamite rubric for assessing student essays? Do you have a management technique that keeps your classroom running smoothly? Share it with your colleagues here.

Seeing is Believing!!!
submitted by Susan Rash
Works with Pictures

Travel (learning) Journals
submitted by Abby Bryant
Using learning journals to deepen understanding and to document advanced mastery of a unit

Time Travel University
submitted by Jeff Bellamy
Present basic technologies in a way that students will want to learn

Latino Art Books Project
submitted by Laura Fattal
a visual art project that asks students to transfer oral history into visual form

Authentic Conversation in the Classroom
submitted by Frank Champine
Deeper Reading, Classroom Discussion, and Authentic Writing makes meaning and leads to tranfer.

Blogging for Students
submitted by Shelly Horowitz
Blogging to deepen student understanding.

Teaching for Artistic Behavior
submitted by Diane Jaquith
Choice-based art education provides authentic learning experiences in visual art.

Extending Class Participation
A method for breaking the ice

CONTEST
Check Out This Good Idea!

How would you like to make a few bucks from your Good Idea?

Good Ideas Editor Beth Krasemann will choose one submission a month to highlight in her Check Out This Good Idea! feature. If your idea is chosen, you will be featured on our home page and in our monthly newsletter. We will also reward your hard work with a $50 stipend!

Click here to submit your Good Idea contest entry.