Teacher Voice: The Official Kiddom Blog
Educator resources, school stories, and Kiddom updatesFEATURED
Articles for Educators
RESOURCES
Professional Development & Tips
Schools Could Save Money by Connecting Three Workflows on One Platform
Streamlining workflows within schools can increase collaboration to the betterment of not just your budget, but your entire learning community.
Become a Teacher Advocate: Help Us Help Teachers
The level of stress placed on professionals in K-12 education has become a major issue. Technology is supposed to help, but because school employees don’t have a voice in how tools are made, the tech they’re provided often just adds more frustration. We want to give them that voice.
We Asked 100 Admins: How Do You Stay Up-to-date on Educational Technology?
We asked school administrators about their concerns, and how they discover and adopt tools to address them. Read their answers here.
Individual Rotation and Flex: Blended Learning Models
In part 3 of our blending learning series, read about the best models for classrooms with central learning labs: individual rotation and flex.
Station Rotation & Lab Rotation: Blended Learning Models
In the second of our 4-part blended learning series, we cover two models that are best for a limited technology classroom: station rotation and lab rotation
Initiative Fatigue for School Administrators: Webinar Recap
Hear from 5 school administrators who have braved the challenges of implementing yet another tech initiative — and lived to tell the tale.
STORIES
Educator Spotlights & School Stories
Welcome Back to School: A Letter From Our CAO
This week all Kiddom employees (many of whom are former educators) received the following letter from our CAO. We were so inspired, we had to share!
Rock the Bells: Personalize Learning with Playlists
A back-to-school story about the importance of embracing bells & whistles like personalized learning to keep students engaged — and how playlists can help.
Curriculum is Culture
Responding to a recent shift from curriculum analysis to culture change, author Geoffrey Schmidt argues that the two cannot be separated.
Teaching the Gray Areas of Conflict: an Opportunity for Critical Thinking
I try to teach and learn. Middle school teacher in Los Angeles.We like tidy narratives. Heroes and villains. Beginnings, middles, and ends. You need only look at the latest Marvel Blockbusters to see the formula writ large. There is an inherent danger to this...
An Attempt to Teach Students How to Begin to Recognize Emotions
I’ve witnessed students on the autism spectrum struggle to recognize emotions and acknowledge non-verbal cues from others. These social emotional skills…
Teaching ASD Success Stories
At least three times a week I hear one of my students say “I can’t do this, I’m autistic.” This is really frustrating, not only because I know they can…
PRODUCT
Features, New Releases, & Kiddom Tips
Three Ways to Increase Collaboration in your Classroom or School
Here are three advanced collaboration techniques to help you super-charge collaboration in your classroom (feel free to mix and match!)
Kiddom and Newsela: Better Together
Build a library of resources for a diverse levels of readers using Newsela and Kiddom together. If you’re a Newsela user, you know it’s an amazing resource for your students. Having the ability to…
Kiddom Reports + Microsoft O365: Better Together, Pt 2
Need a gradebook for Office 365? Check out how combining Kiddom and Office 365 can help to facilitate grading and reporting in your classroom.
Kiddom and Microsoft Office 365: Better Together
In this 2-part series, we discuss how you can use Microsoft Office 365 and Kiddom together to maximize collaboration in the classroom.
Introducing Guardian Access—Bringing Families Closer to Their Child’s Education
Learn how new feature “Guardian Access” is connecting all of the stakeholders in a child’s education — even parents and guardians.
What Makes Kiddom for Android Special? Interview
I'm a developer. I'm a generalist. I bring to the table 15 years of experience packaged as a solid fullstack engineer. A proven record of successful products shipped. Love working with people from different backgrounds. Finding ways to create great systems. Balancing...
