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The Sunday Night Lie | Less Planning Nightmare

Every teacher knows the ritual.

Sunday. 9 p.m. The week’s lessons should have been done Friday. They weren’t. So here you are — one tab open to a standards document, another to a worksheet site that may or may not still work, a third to last year’s plan that you know needs updating but haven’t touched. You are not lazy. You are exhausted. There is a difference.

Here is what no administrator says at the back-to-school convocation: the lesson plan is not failing teachers. The time to write lesson plans is failing teachers. When we demand differentiation for four learning levels, exit tickets, rubric-aligned assessments, and cross-curricular connections — all from a person who also supervises lunch — we are asking the extraordinary from the already depleted.

That is the problem the Lesson Plan Generator was built to solve. Input a grade level. A standard. An objective. Receive a fully structured lesson — tiered for below, on, and above grade level, with exit tickets and a rubric already attached. Not a template. Not a suggestion. A plan, ready to teach.

Not busywork replaced, but thinking protected. Not shortcuts offered, but Sundays returned. Not less rigor, but more rest. The best teachers I know don’t need more tools. They need more time. This gives them back an hour. And in education, an hour recovered is a student better served.

Plan smarter. Teach deeper. Rest well.


Published by Dr. Saleem | Keynote 180 | AI Skills for K–12 Educators

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Keynote 180 | Interview with Eileen Shafer, Superintendent, Paterson Public Schools

In this episode of Keynote 180, Dr. Saleem holds a candid conversation with Eileen Shafer, District Superintendent, Paterson Public Schools, on a broad range of topics: student achievement, budgetary constraints, and staffing issues–to name a few. Paterson is New Jersey’s third largest public school district.

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A Conversation With Richard Byrne of FreeTech4Teachers.com AND PraticalEdTech.com – Keynote 180

Richard Byrne is a rare-find sort of a person for service to the teaching community. His videos on everything EdTech are posted on his YouTube channel, which you can access here, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCylhHbAUoqgdN-XQpJPobOg On his channel, you can access thousands of videos on free and/or low-cost teaching resources. You can also take his online courses at http://www.PracticalEdTech.com. He is a highly sought-after trainer and a speaker, not only within, but also outside of the country. In this wide-ranging conversation, he discusses the pedagogy and the tools of effective teaching-from-home. He also shares a personal side of his life as an amazing father to his two daughters and as a fitness enthusiast. To get your LEVEL II Badge and Certification in online teaching, visit http://www.Keynote180.com

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How To Assert Instructor and Student Presence in Online Teaching

This program is prepared for GCAER conference of RCNBS. In this keynote presentation, Dr. H. M. Saleem discusses the importance of student and instructor presence in online teaching and learning. Dr. Saleem also discusses how to amplify such presence in order to mimic on-campus setting when teaching online.

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The Theories of Learning – 2021 Masterclass in Online Teaching Course

This video is part of 2021 masterclass in Online Teaching LEVEL II course by Dr. H. M. Saleem

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