Laura Vanderkam is the author of seven time-management books, including Norton’s Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance, as well as the host of two podcasts. The start of the school year can always make time feel crunched. You may be juggling new courses and new expectations alongside deadlines and a lingering sense that there’s always more you could be doing. …
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As a first-year AP® Seminar teacher, I was really nervous that I wasn’t going to be able to offer my students all the support they needed. But, since my students had access to “They Say / I Say,” I felt as if I had a mentor teacher with me at all times
Balancing planning, grading, and teaching while securing tenure isn’t easy. Kelsi G. Hobbs, assistant professor of economics at the University of Maine, shares how the right textbook resources are foundational in creating a strong course, allowing you to dedicate more time to research, service, and other projects.
Rebecca Newland is a high school librarian who spent 15 years as a high school English teacher before switching, which has been more fun than she could have imagined.
Adronisha Frazier teaches medical microbiology and biology lecture and lab courses at San Joaquin Delta College. She works closely with colleagues to mentor, teach, and support a diverse student population in earning credentials and transferring to 4-year institutions.
Bringing things together in one place, supporting instructors in their work while also opening up astonishing worlds of literature to all types of readers (students, instructors, and life-long learners alike): these are just some of the reasons that the Norton anthologies continue to thrive.
As America continues to debate sexual expression, gender identity, and bodily autonomy, prepare your students with a course grounding that debate in American historical context. Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America author Rebecca L. Davis offers a teaching companion for your classroom.
Daniel Hood is a high school history teacher at a private school in Southwest Virginia where he teaches AP® World History, AP® European History, and AP® Comparative Government. I love maps. Maybe it’s because of all the high fantasy novels I read as a young adult, which would have been incomplete without the map inside the first few pages that brought the whole fantasy world into sharper relief. Or it might have been …
I have never encountered a student with strong opinions about whether they learn kinetics before or after thermodynamics, or which theory best explains expanded-octet structures, or whether quantum mechanics should occur early or late in the text. Fortunately, there are still many ways in which the viewpoints of instructors and students align perfectly. I’d like to share a few of those human-centric areas of agreement that can be supported by an effective textbook.
According to AP® instructor Craig Nicoletti, students must be taught more than how to memorize information. In our latest Norton Learning Blog post, AP® instructor Nicoletti encourages his students to “think like historians” by synthesizing historical information, constructing arguments about the past, and recalling specific historical details.