By Melizza Rios

August 18, 2019 - Do you feel that? The anticipation of another school year beginning, a fresh start with up-to-date class displays and bulletin boards, new students ready to reveal their personalities, and a full bag of “teacher tricks” to manage... Read More

By Melizza Rios

July 31, 2019 - The summer is quickly coming to an end, and this means professional development days! The excitement of setting up your classrooms, designing your reading corner (Thank you, Pinterest!), color-coding your lesson plans by subject (oh,... Read More

By Melizza Rios

July 17, 2019 - Let’s agree that company training is hard work. The planning involves asking and planning for questions such as What information is relevant for the training? What does everyone need to know by the end of the training? How much time will... Read More

By Melizza Rios

July 11, 2019 - You’re sitting there staring at the stack of training certifications that you need to review and score by the end of the day. You’ve put it off long enough, but you would love to avoid it at all costs for at least one of many... Read More

By Melizza Rios

June 13, 2019 - “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” -- Steve Jobs Collaboration is the catalyst for any company’s change, progress, and overall success. When a company’s stakeholders --... Read More

By Melizza Rios

May 29, 2019 - It’s the end of the school year and testing is OVER! That’s right…O-V-E-R, OVER. So, now what? For most, this time of the year means cleaning out desks, taking down bulletin boards, and trying to keep your students focused on... Read More

By Melizza Rios

April 29, 2019 - It’s spring and I am always looking for sunshine, warm weather, and any opportunity to spend a day outdoors. I often refer to my handy weather app so I can plan each day (48-degrees and rainy? Indoors with hot coffee. 70-degrees and... Read More

By Melizza Rios

April 19, 2019 - Math has been the bane of my educational career, starting from kindergarten (“Count what?”) to when I was studying to get my teaching credential and had to take an Educational Foundations of Math class (“There’s a difference... Read More

By Melizza Rios

April 08, 2019 - “The MORE that you READ, the more THINGS you will KNOW. The MORE you LEARN, the more PLACES you’ll GO!” -- Dr. Seuss April is Drop Everything and Read Month (DEAR; official day is Friday, April 12th) and Qwizdom OKTOPUS has free... Read More

By Valerie Bonnet

April 03, 2019 - I absolutely love the Qwizdom Student Response System (SRS). I have been a teacher for 20 years. I can no longer work without Qwizdom. Qwizdom has made my life so much easier. I use the remote answering system for every test I give,... Read More