Team member: Jon Smith, Senior Teacher Success Manager

Why I love it:
This template is my go-to for all students who struggle with summarizing text. It’s simple, effective, and uses words that all kids understand.

Potential impact on student learning:
It provides a straightforward method for summarizing, helping students to better comprehend and retain information.

Team member: David Hotler, Community Manager

Why I love it:
It lets students list and reflect on their strengths. It's ideal for personal growth and self-awareness exercises. It stands out because it's a simple, repeatable exercise that can be used in portfolios and at teacher conferences.

Potential impact on student learning:
A mix of praise and growth builds resilient, confident students. The positive impact activities like this can have on a pupil’s well-being and self-image is huge. My own experiences with activities like these, in class and in youth group, still stick with me today.

Team member: Lainey Franks, CEO

Why I love it:
We’ve all done book reports for our teacher or our local library, but this engaging digital template takes it to a whole new level. My favorite thing is that the student needs to pick a favorite passage and record their voice reading it. And using emojis instead of stars is a modern approach to the subject.

Potential impact on student learning:
This template makes it fun and simple for a student to reflect on their reading, practicing their comprehension, writing, speaking, and summarizing skills.

Team member: Dan Kemp, Director of Marketing

Why I love it:
Microsoft's announcement limits Flip's use for many teachers. So, it's good to have some alternatives. This template suggests using Book Creator as a replacement for Flipgrid.

Potential impact on student learning:
A prompt to record a video encourages student voice. It gives them a safe way to share their thoughts. This grid offers an easy way for teachers to manage these responses.

Team member: Catherine Cappiello, Teacher Success Manager

Why I love it:
It gives students balanced feedback, highlighting both 'glows' (strengths) and 'grows' (areas to improve). This method promotes constructive criticism and nurtures a positive learning environment. Book Creator's features let all students use their preferred methods for peer feedback, including multimedia and accessibility tools.

Potential impact on student learning:
Peer feedback can boost student learning by enhancing understanding, encouraging collaboration, increasing motivation, and developing communication skills. It creates a supportive learning environment, where students feel more engaged and empowered in their learning.

Team member: Will Pursey, Account Executive

Why I love it:
It's a great display of how much content can be on one page without it looking crowded. It's also a very easy-to-digest exercise that shows how powerful a creative tool can be for Social Studies

Potential impact on student learning:
It allows students to explore complex topics in an organized manner, enhancing their understanding and retention of historical events and concepts.

Team member: April Hayward, Senior Sales Development Representative

Why I love it:
This animal report has an adorable, emoji-animal border. It helps all learners dive right in with their furry (or scaly!) friends’ investigation. The questions prompt the student to imagine a day in the life of their chosen animal and provide a framework for key information to include. This template uses direct questions and 'freestyle' boxes, making it great for introducing students to independent learning with guardrails.

Potential impact on student learning:
Develops research skills, provides a framework for self-led research, encourages curiosity, and introduces independent study.

Team member: Chavonne Duckworth, Events Manager

Why I love it:
It’s fun, engaging, and easy to use. The drag-and-drop concept with colorful rainbow ticks means it has a clear structure to track progress. This can be used by both students and teachers, particularly for professional development goals and portfolios.

Potential impact on student learning:
By clearly stating the goals and tasks, students can focus on what matters. Visual progress tracking can motivate students and help them see their achievements, boosting self-awareness.

Team member: Sarah Jane Dent, Product Owner

Why I love it:
Really easy for students to edit and to add their own photo and caption, in a setting they’re familiar with.

Potential impact on student learning:
It can spark discussions on social media and online safety, or it can be a way to share a favorite summer moment.

Team Member: Janet Burnett

Why I love it:
I love the simplicity of this, yet the powerful feedback it will return for students, teachers, and parents packs a punch. Video can be great for student engagement, yet offers great evidence of learning.

Potential impact on student learning:
Video is powerful because it captures reality. It provides evidence of progress, potential interferences, and a path for intervention. As a former Title I Reading Teacher, I have discovered that students benefit from listening to themselves. They often can’t hear the problem while they are struggling in the process of reading, but if they hear it, they want to work on improving fluency.