April Requard

We're wrapping up the year with Canva Wrapped 2025 — a creative choice board website packed with 9 plug-and-play activities to help classrooms reflect on 2025 and imagine their stories for 2026. Explore it here: bit.ly/49ayPLJ

🎯 Meet your new classroom sidekick—no cape required! Flippity takes your plain Google Sheets and turns them into quizzes, flashcards, games, and interactive reviews—effortlessly and for FREE. Whether you're reinforcing vocabulary, prepping for tests, or just jazzing up a lesson, Flippity makes engagement easy, fun, and teacher-budget friendly. Upgrade your teaching toolkit 👇 buff.ly/TnW8gPj @preimers #edtech #educoach #cooltools

🎉 We’re so excited to share that Canva has just been named Creativity Solution of the Year in the 2025 EdTech Breakthrough Awards! We believe creativity belongs in every classroom - and this award celebrates the incredible teachers and students bringing that to life every day. #CanvaEdu

What's NEW with Canva AI? 👇🏽Check out a quick tour here... youtu.be/0t74iD_XdH4?si… @CanvaEdu @amydelair24 @MrNunesteach @AprilRequard @EdTechAPS

💖 Get your classroom Valentine’s Day-ready with fun, creative #CanvaEDU resources! Design heartfelt cards, engaging activities, and decorations to make the day extra special. 💌✨ bit.ly/4hjI0w4

📰Weekly Tech-y News📰 💬"I can" statements for tech standards thanks to template from @its_morgancave @AprilRequard & others! 🤖@ericcurts ABCs of AI 📲Apple Classroom to manage students on iPads ❄️"Yeti" for the New Year in @Seesaw from @risserb ➡️bit.ly/42l2ujx

Check out this collaborative effort to develop clear and accessible "I Can Statements" for the newly established Tech App TEKS for grades K-8. sbee.link/g7ebwmxajp via @AprilRequard #txed #edutwitter #teks

Excited to share a project our two districts (Richardson ISD + Dripping Springs ISD) have been working on. If you are an educator in Texas, you’re going to want to snag these “I Can Statements” for the new Tech App TEKS! @TCEA @teainfo education.apple.com/resource/25001…

@its_morgancave @lindsaybcross @its_dig_gid @MrsKelseyOrd

Run don't walk straight to the app, these 🔥 features won't work by themselves! Well, Questions AI might 👀 Check out how to create and grade assessments, automatically among a bundle of other time-saving tools.

Not all Professional Development Sessions are the same! Huge thank you to @AprilRequard for her time,effort and creativity today! Great lesson on effective use of technology in the classroom. Experience > task

@delossae17 @DSISD @OneTigerNation That’s so nice to hear!! Thank you! Thank you for actively participating, too! I know it’s rough at the end of the day! I’m looking forward to seeing intentional and purposeful technology use in our classrooms!! 🙌 @DSISD

Check out my latest post in the Apple Education Community! ☀️ Empowering Young Learners: The Importance of Visual Instructions in Learning Centers to Promote Independence. #AppleEducationCommunity #ADE @AppleEDU education.apple.com/resource/25001…

So here’s 👇👇👇 the @CanvaEdu tip of the week. Thinking outside the box (frame)😂 with your designs. Duplicate image, remove background & layer. Take those graphic novels to the next level. Potential to use this effect in other areas across #edu #business @Usingtechbetter @canva

Did you know that you can increase student engagement, foster independence and motivate the students in your classroom by creating and using choice boards? Give it a try today! magicschool.ai 💜 🪄 #magicschoolai #teachersaremagic #madewithmagic

@melanie_naquin1 @OneTigerNation 💯

Our “Senior Showcase” will renew your faith in the future of humanity 🐅🫶🔮 @OneTigerNation

💻💡📚 The first cohort of DSISD Digital Innovators met again today to talk through Kami tools for education. The cohort is led by the incredible @AprilRequard 📚💡💻

@_rjsmart @maphiesa Thank you!! 😊

@AprilRequard @maphiesa tagging y’all in case you didn’t see this small but mighty curated list.😉

Wise words from my friend, Kelly.