5 Ways to Make Teaching Easier This Year

Teaching got harder, not easier.

More to cover, less time to cover it, and a stack of new tools that mostly add work instead of removing it.

These five ideas actually take work off your plate. Each one comes from a Summer Learning Series session, taught by teachers who use these strategies in their own classrooms.

How to Watch These

All five sessions are inside the ALL ACCESS Teacher Membership. They were released as member-only bonus sessions during this summer’s Summer Learning Series, and they stay in the library year-round.

Members also get a certificate of completion for all 22 Summer Learning Series sessions, free and bonus, tracked through your member account. If you’re logging PD hours for recertification, that alone usually covers the cost of membership before you count the rest of the library.

Here’s what’s inside.

1. Let AI Plan Lessons the Way You Would

Using AI Agents to Supercharge Your Lesson Planning with Jeff Bradbury

Generic AI lesson plans are useless because they don’t know your standards, your students, or how you teach. Jeff shows how to build a custom AI agent in Notion that plans lessons your way, aligned to what you actually teach. No coding required, just clear thinking about what good instruction looks like in your room.

Watch or listen to this session, and get credit inside the ALL ACCESS Teacher Membership.

2. Make Learning Stick Past Friday

Teaching That Sticks: Leveraging AI for Long-Term Learning with Stephanie Sukow

Retrieval, spacing, and interleaving are the three most proven ways to help students remember what you taught. The problem has always been the time it takes to build them into your lessons. Stephanie uses Google Gemini, MagicSchool AI, Canva, and Diffit to do it fast, and you leave with lesson plans ready to go.

Watch or listen to this session, and get credit inside the ALL ACCESS Teacher Membership.

3. Put Google’s AI to Work in Your Classroom

Gold Rush: Strike It Rich in Google Classroom with Brianne Brandt

Most teachers use maybe a third of what Google Classroom can do. Brianne walks through integrating Google Gemini, custom Gems, and NotebookLM directly into your workflow. Whether you’re brand new to Google or you’ve used it for a decade, there’s something here you haven’t tried.

Watch or listen to this session, and get credit inside the ALL ACCESS Teacher Membership.

4. Ask Better Questions, Get Better Thinking

Practical Strategies That Boost Student Engagement and Learning with Stephanie Howell

Engagement isn’t about making lessons more fun. It’s about what you ask and how you respond. Stephanie shares high-impact questioning strategies, feedback approaches that deepen learning, and coaching conversation tools you can use in your next lesson.

Watch or listen to this session, and get credit inside the ALL ACCESS Teacher Membership.

5. Finally Make the Video You Keep Putting Off

Video Is Not Optional for Educators… And You’re More Ready Than You Think with Lindy Hockenbary

Your students watch hours of video a day. Almost none of it is from you. Lindy makes the case for why teacher-created video builds connection and belonging, then shows you can make it with the equipment already in your bag. No film degree required.

Watch or listen to this session, and get credit inside the ALL ACCESS Teacher Membership.

*Related: Creation in a World of AI

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Get credit for these 5 sessions, access our entire course library, and so much more.

And this year, we’re kicking it off with something BIG:

🎁 The Back-to-School with AI Hub – exclusively for members!

On this interactive page, you will find:

Searchable AI Prompt Library: copy-and-paste AI prompts, organized by what you actually need.
An interactive planning checklist you can work through at your own pace.
Six courses curated for Back-to-School, each with PD credit
Printables & Downloads: ALL the B2S Downloads, Guides, and Cheat Sheets in ONE location!

That’s just the beginning.

Inside ALL ACCESS, you’ll also get:

✅ 90+ on-demand courses (including the 22 Summer Learning sessions we just wrapped up!

✅ Credit certificates for every eligible session

✅ Downloadable cheat sheets, guides & templates

✅ Teacher book club

And so much more is on the way!

A full searchable AI prompt library covering every AI prompt we’ve ever made, plus a course finder to help you navigate all 90+ courses in the membership, are both in progress.

All of this—for just $32.50 for the first three months (that’s less than $11/month).

Limited-time offer, ends 8/30/26.

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