Are your most advanced learners
getting the least support?I just don't have time to create differentiated lessons.
Does any of this sound familiar?
- Teachers are teaching things students already know.
- Students who finish quickly have to ask, “I’m done. What do I do now?”
- They get a “challenge worksheet” that’s really just more of the same.
- Advanced students end up “tutoring” their peers or reading a book in the corner.
- Apathy sets in because of a lack of challenge.
The families of advanced students begin talking to each other. They’re seeking alternatives. Some have already left.
The students with the best test scores become the most likely to leave.
If you're like me, you've gone to conferences and workshops. You've bought books about differentiation. You've already heard lots of ideas. But you still haven't really implemented many of those ideas.
Why? Because workshops, conferences, and books leave you with more work! Despite the time and money invested, you still have to actually write the lessons.
But here's the thing.
You're good at working with students, building relationships, and actually teaching. That's probably why you became a teacher! That’s what you should be able to focus on.
Teachers do not have time to write their own differentiated curriculum.You should not be expected to write your own differentiated curriculum!
That's where Byrdseed.TV comes in. It’s a library of lessons, projects, and investigations that your teachers can use directly with their students. They can just press play. Everything is planned for them.you can use directly with your students. You can just press play. It's all planned for you.
And we aim high. We know that there are students at every school who could not only meet this year’s standards, but could meet next year’s standards too, if they were given the chance. It’s just that no one ever checks.
But we don’t chase the impossible idea of asking teachers to run three tasks for every single lesson (on-level, struggling, and advanced)! We aim high to begin with, and then scaffold down as necessary. Even students who might be labeled “struggling” have the opportunity to go as far as they are able. They are not artificially restricted to a low-level task.
And these lessons are in a format that is dead simple to use. They're videos, broken into individual steps. Teachers can just press play - or students can run through them independently. We've planned everything out. It's an actual solution to differentiation.
And we’ve already done the work of, not just designing the lessons, but putting them into a format you can use directly with your students. You don't have to spend time interpreting and implementing my lesson plans. You don't even need to read a lesson plan! It's all done for you. You can just, you know, teach.
Is Byrdseed.TV Right For Our Situation?Is Byrdseed.TV Right For Me?
Byrdseed.TV is purposefully flexible. It was planned to account for teachers who pull-out, push-in, teach remotely, or only see students once a week. For typical classroom teachers, Byrdseed.TV will be a piece of cake.
Byrdseed.TV is best suited for teachers who teach multiple subjects and work with students in grades 3 through 8.
I know that some folks work in self-contained classrooms, some are pull-out teachers, some push-in, some offer only enrichment, some even work remotely. Byrdseed.TV is purposefully flexible to meet your needs.
However, Byrdseed.TV is best suited for those who teach multiple subjects and work with students in grades 3 through 8.
"I love Byrdseed.TV!"
Thousands of teachers from around the world use Byrdseed.TV with their students. They represent every continent (except Antarctica). The most common word in their Byrdseed.TV reviews is love. And they love Byrdseed.TV because their students love it.
"This was the best money I have ever spent on a teaching tool!"
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"I love Byrdseed TV! I use it as a resource and inspiration source! Thank you so much for sharing your ideas and knowledge."
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"I am the coordinator for our district gifted program. Byrdseed.TV is one of my favorite sites and one of the best investments I have made for the program."
Jeannette in California
"I absolutely LOVE all of the ideas on your site. I am using Byrdseed TV to differentiate activities for my clustered students to work on when the rest of the class is doing something they've already mastered."
Wendy in Washington
"Love, love, love Byrdseed TV... I used many ideas and lessons this year. The kids loved the lessons and were engaged!"
Tiffany in California
"I just subscribed to Byrdseed.TV and am loving it -- though it is kind of scary addictive in a binge-watching kind of way (that, by the way, is a compliment)."
Elizabeth from Florida
The best feedback I've ever received was from a student who said that, while everything else at school is so linear, "Byrdseed.TV makes us think diagonally!" Yes!
Hello! I'm Ian Byrd, and I create the resources here at Byrdseed.TV. Tens of thousands of teachers read my site Byrdseed.com every month. I spoke at more than two hundred education events. I taught in southern California, where I grew up. Nowadays, I live on Oahu.
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