Lingo
A teaching strategy that involves students talking in pairs to process ideas.
What is Turn and Talk?
A teacher’s favorite beverage to survive morning duty or grading marathons.
What is Coffee or Tea?
This tool is a teacher's best friend for showing engaging videos in class.
What is YouTube?
Beyoncé once told students to “get in formation”—teachers do this daily.
What is Lining Up?
7:45 AM
This framework emphasizes affirming student identities, cultivating agency, and connecting learning to students' lived experiences.
What is Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CR-SE)?
A magical place where missing pens, caps, and sticky notes go.
What is the Teacher’s Desk Drawer?
This game-based app is a go-to for review games and hype.
What is Kahoot! or GoNoodle?
This rapper-turned-mogul reminded us of the 9-5 grind with “Get Rich or Die Tryin’.” Hint: He is also known for producing BMF & Power.
Who is 50 Cent?
8:00 am - 9:30 AM
What are the times for street cleaning on Fountain Avenue?
This instructional model involves a general education and a special education teacher working together in one inclusive classroom.
What is ICT (Integrated Co-Teaching)?
A term for the online place where teachers vent, laugh, or cry together.
What is social media (Insta, TikTok etc)?
This Google tool helps create quick quizzes with auto-grading.
What is Google Forms?
A Netflix film where Kevin Hart plays a widowed dad who goes back to school to earn his GED and ends up in a hilarious night school class.
What is Night School?
James P. Sinnott
What is the name of the 2025 Teaching Academy site?
This questioning technique helps teachers check for understanding mid-lesson by asking students to demonstrate or explain their learning.
What are Higher-Order Thinking Questions?
A container that holds your hydration and your hopes.
What is a Stanley Cup or Hydro Flask?
A slide-based interactive tool perfect for checks for understanding.
What is Pear Deck or Nearpod?
A substitute teacher fakes his identity to lead a class of prep school students in forming a rock band—and ends up teaching more than just music.
What is School of Rock?
TAD, LI, FEM, CC
What are the roles of the NYCTF Teaching Academy staff?
This term describes when students are actively participating, emotionally invested, and intellectually involved in the learning process.
What is Student Engagement?
A teacher’s superpower that helps them remember everything from attendance to allergies.
What is Teacher Memory (or the Mental Rolodex)?
A platform teachers use to design everything from newsletters to anchor charts.
What is Canva?
In this film inspired by true events, a math teacher in East LA helps his students defy expectations and pass the AP Calculus exam.
What is Stand and Deliver?
18
What is the number of fellows at the 218 K Teaching Academy?