Thursday, November 6, 2025

Use a textbook!

Increasingly, public schools are buying programs, not textbooks.  Kids get packets to complete from notes, chapter excerpts, or slide decks.  But the textbook has an index, a glossary, and references with maps, formulas, Periodic Tables, etc.  Instead, the kids access everything from a learning management system, such as Canva or Google Classroom.  Often after completing the assignment, the materials are inaccessible.  I use any number of supplemental material for my classes.  First and foremost, however,  we have a textbook, a reliable, accessible tool, loaded with course material.  

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