Instagram Posts | Miguel Guhlin

Banned Books Week: An American Freedom Worth Exercising

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:11:00 GMT

What happens when a book gets challenged, restricted, or banned? Explore Contraband, a free collection of learning rooms, posters, and prompts that help students investigate challenged books.

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Free Webinar: Digital Accessibility with Mary Rice and Raymond Rose

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:11:00 GMT

Be sure to attend the FREE @txdla webinar on October 14, 2026 featuring accessibility experts, Mary Rice and Raymond Rose.

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History Learning Center

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:45:00 GMT

Introducing a website that may be useful to preservice/inservice, history/SS teachers in Texas, the History Learning Center (HLC). For now, here is a flipbook calendar with a daily activity for this year.

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Note-Taking and Outlining: Six Digital Helpers

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:41:00 GMT

Wish you had an easy way to annotate websites or research articles and then share them with others? Do you need to guide high school and/or college students in the area of note-taking? If so, you’ve come to the right place. In this blog entry, I’ll feature a few digital tools that should come in handy for this purpose. At the end, I will share my recommendations.

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Infographics: Updated Toolboxes for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Lumo AI

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:50:00 GMT

Looking for an updated toolbox showing the best features of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Lumo AI? Then this collection of infographics might do it for you.

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Back to School: Relic Room TEKS Aligned Activities

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:57:00 GMT

I’m happy to announce a new series (aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)) that offers fun activities for students to start the school year off. The series is the Relic Room series. You get access to NINE different, free (no account required) mystery exhibits. I make specific suggestions for applying the ACE Framework to critically analyzing the information in these exhibits.

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Teacher Printables: Get Literature Circles Talking, Thinking, and Using Evidence

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:38:00 GMT

This latest Teacher Printables collection gives you that structure. The Literature Circles Launch Kit includes a 21-page teacher and student packet, reusable organizers, TEKS connections for grades five through twelve, and worked planners for specific texts.

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Teacher Printables: Make STAAR Review More Useful with Math Supplemental Aids

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:50:00 GMT

The latest addition to the Teacher Printables collection is a set of Math Supplemental Aids designed to give students quick visual reminders of mathematical relationships they have already learned. You can print them, project them, or slip them into student notebooks.

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Idioms and Sayings CTOBs

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:39:00 GMT

Learning idioms in English, or any other language, is both fun and frustrating. This offers activities you can use with students. Free.

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Teacher Printables: Make STAAR Review More Useful with Science Supplemental Aids for Elementary and Middle School

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:50:00 GMT

Welcome to a new series focused on teacher printables for classroom teachers. Ever wish you could just grab-n-go content that you could print and use tomorrow (or today)? Let’s take a look at this series of Science Supplemental Aids. You will find middle school aids, as well as elementary aids.

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The 60-Second PEIMS Check That Can Save Hours

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:49:00 GMT

Before finalizing an entry, stop for one minute. Check the student, dates, attendance, incident structure, action code, and documentation. The “60-Second PEIMS Check” should be presented as a local quality-control routine: student, status, dates, attendance, incident, action, and documentation. Afterwards, submit.

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When the Classroom Lives in the In-Between: Nepantla, Rasquachismo, and Teaching Tools

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:41:00 GMT

This is an "encore" presentation of the session I gave at LACDH2026 in San Antonio, Tx. With slashed budgets, school districts barely able to cover healthcare costs for educators, which subscriptions do you slash first to pay for the tools you need? what if you could vibe-code your way to success?

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Turn Literature Study into an Investigation with PlotPoint

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:46:00 GMT

Looking for a way to engage students with literature? Consider PlotPoint, a literature learning arcade featuring 100 titles. The goal of PlotPoint is to turn reading into an investigation. It offers interactive learning opportunities for students and stories appropriate for grades six through twelve. Students examine artifacts, solve evidence-based breakouts, play short literary games, and explain the thinking behind their choices.

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Drop the Subscriptions: Vibe-Code Your Own Library Tools

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:09:00 GMT

School librarians keep getting asked to run real programs on budgets that shrink every year, and the per-student, per-month pricing model is rarely on your side. You can build these tools with vibe-coding yourself now, without writing a line of code, and they cost nothing to run. I was skeptical too. Then I tried it.
What “Vibe Coding” Even Means

You describe the tool you want to a Gen AI chatbot. It writes the code. You spend your time clicking through the result and telling it what to fix. That’s it. That’s vibe coding.

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Crack the Case with CLEAR, Smart Thinking

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:44:00 GMT

We don’t teach critical thinking as well as we should in K-12 schools. That’s why I have spent so much time on it in past blog entries. Gen AI has uncovered this detail for many. In this blog entry, I share a CLEAR process, a detective games for grades 3-8 with lesson plan, and, for Part 2 (dropping July 20, 2026), I promise a series of digital breakouts for grades 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.

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Bible as Literature

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:43:00 GMT

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Women’s Equality Day: The Vote Was a Milestone, Not the Finish Line

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:16:00 GMT

Adding a history observance may feel like one more plate to keep spinning. Women’s Equality Day offers a strong lesson without requiring a week-long unit or a heroic amount of coffee. A short video overview appears at the end.

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LACDH 2026: Instructional Rasquachismo: Building AI-Powered Teaching Tools

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:01:00 GMT

Instructional rasquachismo builds dignified, practical teaching tools from limited resources, while nepantla is the transformative in-between space those tools bridge between enterprise technology and under-resourced classrooms.

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7 Graphing Activities That Put Students Behind the Data

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:54:00 GMT

As a third grade teacher, I loved having my students collect data to graph. At the time, they relied on age-appropriate graphing tools like Labs for Learning’s LabQuest and Tom Snyder’s The Graph Club. Today, there is still ample data available to collect and organize. Let me introduce you to a new graphing and calculator tool you may find useful.

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Back to School: Get Students Lab-Ready with Free Safety Certification Activities

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:52:00 GMT

These free Lab Safety Certification activities (available in seven different languages) may give students a chance to practice those decisions before they begin laboratory work. And, as a bonus, you get five posters you can print and hang in your classroom.

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ACE Image Inquiry: Reading Paintings Like Historical Evidence

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:50:00 GMT

Art history, or history in art, has never been my thing. That’s why I found visits to museums as a student, unless they focused on scientific accomplishments, bones and fossils, to be a waste of time. Michaelangelo’s sculptures awed me as a teenager, especially David. But show me a painting, and I would end up pulling out a book to read or walking around to find something more interesting. Of course, tapestries depicting battles weren’t easily available to me. Today, I am discovering a wealth of art that I missed. It’s art that tells a story, that shifts your perspective before you even know anything about it. This blog is my rediscovery of history as described in eleven pieces of art, American history paintings aligned to the Social Studies TEKS.

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Idioms and Sayings: A CTOB Suite for Multilingual Learners

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:45:00 GMT

Learning idioms in English, or any other language, is both fun and frustrating. The suite is built for grades three through twelve and includes a variety of English and Spanish breakouts across three grade bands. It also includes a search-first landing page, a trilingual English, Spanish, and French idiom spotlight, and an ELPS and TEKS alignment page.

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Sharing 130+ Entry/Exit Tickets for Social Studies

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Ever wonder if your students got that lesson or not? Someone said recently, “Some new teachers entering schools today don’t know what entry or exit tickets are.” I was shocked to hear that. While it’s possible, it’s unlikely. What’s more likely is that they may not be aware of the power of the high-effect size strategy, Retrieval Practice. In this blog entry, I’ll share over 130+ entry and exit tickets aligned to the Social Studies TEKS for grades 3-11. You will have to decide if they are useful or not.

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