As a young teacher, Krista Herrera realized lesson planning wasn’t her strong suit. So instead of spending nights and weekends agonizing over that task and causing her students to suffer through her learning curve with her, she did something that is rarely done in education but might just be more effective than the latest intervention or any AI technology: She got help from a colleague.
“I was super good at building relationships with my kids and running my classroom and making content fun,” Herrera says. But she noticed that a teacher down the hall was fantastic at creating lesson plans. She asked him to share and then came up with ways to enhance those lesson plans with class activities, strengthening the experience for students in both classrooms. “Together we could kind of create this super teacher,” she says.
