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BW Walch Launches Revolutionary Collaborative Math App: BoomMath
BoomMath increases student engagement and understanding and provides teachers with real-time feedback to identify gaps in student...
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Olivia Gardner
- Jan 4
- 2 min
Classroom Teaching Ideas to Beat the January Blues
After a well-deserved break, it can be hard for both teachers and students to get back into the flow of teaching and learning –...
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Olivia Gardner
- Dec 5, 2022
- 2 min
Surviving the Christmas Break as a Teacher
Teachers work hard, so when the Christmas break rolls around it’s the perfect time to put your feet up, relax and forget about work for a...
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Olivia Gardner
- Nov 23, 2022
- 3 min
6 Festive Activities to Get Your Class Ready for Christmas
From opening the first door on the advent calendar, to hearing the first festive tune of the year blast through the radio, the build-up...
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Olivia Gardner
- Nov 10, 2022
- 3 min
8 Pieces of EdTech Every Teacher Needs
As a teacher, you likely remember your own school experience, in which classroom interactivity stretched to whiteboards and rolled-out...
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Olivia Gardner
- Nov 3, 2022
- 3 min
2022 Christmas Reading List for Children
Where will you journey this Christmas? To the North Pole to see Santa’s elves at work? Or perhaps you’ll cause mischief with some...
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Olivia Gardner
- Oct 27, 2022
- 4 min
Silent Reading vs. Reading Out Loud
We’re all guilty of having our own individual reading traits. Some of us like to read every single word in detail and really digest the...
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Olivia Gardner
- Oct 20, 2022
- 3 min
Once Upon a Time… 8 Top Tips for Planning a Great Story
Stories - long, short, educational, entertaining, funny or serious, are something we can all remember hearing or reading plenty of when...
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Olivia Gardner
- Oct 13, 2022
- 4 min
6 Tips for your Students: Writing a Spooky Story
Spooky season is here which means it’s time for dressing up, apple bobbing and spooky stories! To get your class or children excited...
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Boom Tastic
- Sep 15, 2022
- 3 min
The Ultimate Fall Reading List for Children
Fall is upon us, which means it’s the perfect time for your students to cosy up with a new seasonal book.
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Boom Tastic
- Aug 5, 2022
- 3 min
6 Ideas to Get Kids Writing Over Summer Break
We all love the summer period, but it can get boring for children who are used to playing with their friends and learning lots of...
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Russell Newman
- Jul 28, 2022
- 1 min
Summer Reading Sorted: GoReadathon 2022 is underway!
Across the UK and beyond, children and families are logging their reading and taking part in the Summer GoReadathon Event. A highlight of...
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Milly Guest
- Apr 1, 2022
- 3 min
A New EdTech Tool For Student Writing
Balancing EdTech opportunities… For too long, there has been a disconnect between the objectives of the Computing curriculum, where...
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Gavin Hawkins
- Jan 31, 2022
- 3 min
Using EdTech Tools to Provide Real Contexts for Student Writing
Boom Writer is deliberately designed to create memorable writing opportunities that can be easily adapted to school.
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Boom Tastic
- Nov 21, 2021
- 2 min
Announcing Curriculum Engine ’22—now with almost 20,000 curated, easy-to-search math resources.
“The only platform that can rapidly tailor and deliver lessons and courses” “The best solution for addressing learning loss and...
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Boom Tastic
- Aug 25, 2021
- 3 min
Culturally Relevant Math Tasks – It’s not as hard as you think!
I’ve met many math teachers who have a desire to use culturally tasks but simply don’t know where to start. One place to start is with a...
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Milly Guest
- Aug 5, 2021
- 2 min
BETT Award for BoomReader!
So, after two postponed awards events, we were finally able to attend the BETT Awards on the 22nd July 2021 where we had been shortlisted...
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Boom Tastic
- Apr 8, 2021
- 8 min
Implementing Change in School Districts: One District’s Successful Transition
In February 2021, Walch interviewed two mathematics department chairs from Community High School District (CSD) 99 in Downers Grove,...
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Boom Tastic
- Feb 12, 2021
- 3 min
To address the COVID-19 achievement gap, it might be time to reevaluate print
It’s no secret that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, distance learning is having something of “a moment.” As many schools shift from...
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