How Notion Can Transform Teaching

I’m wrapping up my 6th year of teaching and one thing’s clear: we need rethink systems of lesson planning.

Using Notion to teach is more than an obsession with a tool; it’s about fundamentally changing how educators create transformational courses. By streamlining the process, there’s higher impact teaching, and more effective learning.

Let’s look at a typical lesson plan, which usually includes:

1. Essential Question
2. Standards, Learning
3. Goals, Assessments
4. Modeling
5. Checks for Understanding
6. Guided Practice
7. Feedback

It’s hard to make the case against any of these, but our brains don’t plan or design learning in this way. Projects that are collaborative, interdisciplinary, or span different grade-levels quickly break the system, and can be dissuaded as a result, in favor of maintaining the given format.

Relational Databases are a Disruptive Force

There’s a lot of buzz around course creation (or maybe it’s just my Twitter bubble?), but as a teacher, Notion as a tool is not only transformative, it’s disruptive.

The moment you can weave together topics, activities, resources, and learning goals, and ‘remix’ them in new ways, you prevent the stagnation that comes from formulaic lesson planning, even though you’re working in a…