👋 Introductions
New here? Introduce yourself and tell us what and where you teach.
10th year teacher, finally trying something new
Hello! I'm a 10th year high school English teacher who resisted new tech tools for years. My attitude was: if my old system works, do not mess with it. Then my old system stopped working. Long story involving three different apps that stopped talking to each other and a gradebook export that corrupted two weeks before report cards. A colleague introduced me to WiseBoard. I'm three months in. The gradebook alone has been worth the switch. For other skeptics out there: I was you six months ago. D…
Middle school art teacher, figuring out WiseBoard this summer
Hi everyone! Sarah here, 7th and 8th grade art in a mid-size district in central Virginia. This is my sixth year teaching and my first with WiseBoard. I signed up in May after a colleague who teaches English kept talking about the lesson planning tools. Art teachers do not always feel like classroom management software is designed with us in mind, so I went in with moderate expectations. I have been pleasantly surprised. The behavior documentation side works well for me even in a studio setting…
Kindergarten teacher in Colorado, learning WiseBoard this summer
Hello from Colorado! I teach kindergarten in a small district outside Denver, 3rd year teaching. I was not sure WiseBoard would work well for kindergarten. A lot of features are clearly designed for older grades. But the behavior tracking and parent communication tools have been genuinely great even at this level. Kindergarten parents are a lot. I mean that with real affection. They want updates, they worry, they need reassurance. Being able to document things quickly and share a clear picture…
High school biology and APES teacher joining the community
Hey everyone. James here, high school biology and AP Environmental Science in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Ten years in the classroom. I resisted WiseBoard for a while because I had a system that sort of worked and did not want to learn something new mid-year. My department chair showed me the Sub Hub in March and I was immediately sold. I missed six days last year due to illness and each one was a planning mess that spilled over into the following week. That is not happening again. Joined in Marc…
8th grade math teacher from Chicago, here for the summer
Hi! Rachel here, 8th grade math in Chicago Public Schools, 6 years in. Just finished my first full year using WiseBoard. End of year reflection: the bell ringer system changed my first 8 minutes of class more than I expected. I used to lose 3-4 minutes every period to transition chaos. Bell ringers fixed it almost immediately. Feels obvious in hindsight. For the summer: I am building out my linear equations unit properly before September. I teach it every year and I have never had a resource se…
5th grade teacher in Oakland, new to the community
Hi everyone! Lisa here, 5th grade in Oakland. Eight years in, third year at my current school. I joined WiseBoard in January after a rough start to the fall semester and I needed better systems for behavior documentation. That was the entry point. Six months later I use it for a lot more than that, but the behavior and documentation tools are still what I rely on most. Now that it is summer and I am not in crisis mode, I am actually trying to learn the parts of the app I ignored while things we…
3rd grade teacher checking in from New Jersey
Hi from New Jersey! Third grade, 5th year. School wrapped up for me last week and I am starting summer with a WiseBoard deep dive. I joined in February and used the basics pretty well, mainly behavior tracking and parent messaging. This summer I want to learn the features I have been ignoring. There are whole sections of the app I have opened once and then closed because I did not have bandwidth to figure them out during the school year. The thing that pulled me into this community forum: I did…
6th grade math teacher in Seattle, here for the summer
Hey, David here from Seattle. Sixth grade math, 11 years in. Just wrapped up the school year last Friday and immediately came here. I have been on WiseBoard since January and it has genuinely changed how I manage classroom data. The performance tracker especially. I used to keep a separate spreadsheet for missing work that I updated twice a week and slowly stopped trusting. That spreadsheet is gone now. Summer goal: build out a full year of lesson plan scaffolding in WiseBoard so I am not creat…
4th grade science teacher jumping in for the summer
Hey everyone! Jennifer here, 4th grade science outside of Austin. Seven years in the classroom and just finished my second week of summer break. I signed up for WiseBoard back in April after a coworker would not stop talking about it at a district PD day. Spent the last two weeks of school poking around the features and I am genuinely excited to use the summer to get it properly set up before August. My main goal before school starts: get all five of my science units scaffolded in WiseBoard so…