 Educators know that setting up consistent classroom routines builds classroom community, establishes structure, and allows students to thrive. Whole class instruction is about coming together to focus on a learning goal. It is a time for students to share ideas, learn new concepts, and give students and teachers a time to check in as a community. Let's learn how you can leverage CSOT and your whole group instruction to enhance learning. CSOT is a great way to capture the thinking and learning that happens during whole group instruction. Utilize CSOT as a way for students to jot and draw their thinking during pausing points of a read-aloud. After reading, have students move to recording spots around the classroom and use the microphone to explain their thinking. This not only allows teachers to capture students thought process, but saves you time in preparing materials. The multimodal tools in CSOT are great for making learning accessible to all students. Instead of writing your morning message on the board, create a CSOT activity and use the label tool to type your message. Assign the activity and have students gather on the rug with their devices. Project the activity with the morning message and prompt students to find the activity in their activity tab and tap add response. Primary teachers often integrate sight words into their morning message to support learning in context. As you call individual students to come up and circle sight words using the drawing tool, engage the remainder of the class by having them use the microphone to draw and record while circling and reading the words with you. Once students tap the green check, this activity will be saved to their journal. Students can play the screen recording again for repeated sight word exposure and teachers have a quick and easy way to assess students' understanding of the sight words. We know teachers spend a lot of time prepping materials to ensure students can engage in meaningful hands on learning experiences. CSOT can help you cut down on this prep time while still giving students access to hands on learning. Did you know that the CSOT Creative Canvas provides you with virtual manipulatives? Instead of spending time prepping buckets of math manipulatives, teachers can build an activity that includes math manipulatives within the Creative Canvas. Maybe you're playing a mystery number game with your students. As you give your students clues for the mystery number, have students tap on the three dots, tap on shapes, and choose manipulatives to build the mystery number. Students can use shapes, place value blocks, mathematical symbols, and more to build and figure out the mystery number. Adding CSOT into your whole group routines creates deeper engagement and a way for teachers to see into each student's learning. Your challenge this week is to incorporate CSOT into one whole group routine that you have already established in your classroom. Share the fun ways you use CSOT on Twitter using the hashtag