Category: Resources

• Paths to 21st-Century Success via the Common Core

  By far, one of my more favorite infographic! Great share for teachers, new and experienced as well as parents – this is what Common Core is about!

• Top 4 apps for making presentations on ipad

• Conference Time: Chatting with Parents

  4 good practical tips for meeting and informing parents!

• 20 great persuasive essay topics for students

  These are some good topics – current and thought provoking.

• Four tips to manage mobile classrooms

  Starts with effective teaching/good design

• Why We Need To Embrace Technology In The Classroom Right Now

  Engagement, facilitation, information access, etc!

• Using Student-Led Parent-Teacher Conferences to Build Relationships | Edutopia

• Tips for Parent-Teacher Conferencing

  Be positive, prepare, be a leader!

• Peer to peer observation, 5 questioning strategies

  This is an excellent read for department chairs, grade level chairs helping other teachers grow

• Innovative Strategies for Writing Success

  Writing is not confined to ELA classes! Find a good topic, make a good connection and design a good lesson.

• 8 Great Ways to use Technology in the Classroom to Create Lessons That Aren’t Boring

  Suggestions here cover a lot bases – gamification, engagement, assessment! Find something here that will help you in your classroom and help reach kids!

• 6 SMART Tips for Effective Professional Development

• Top Visualizations of Bloom’s

  SlideShare pres with Bloom’s graphics

• The Mobile Native: 30 BYOD and BYOT Resources

  Collection of district resources fro BOYD/BYOT implementations

• Helping math teachers succeed through song-based lessons

  Great read on innovative approach to teaching concepts

• 7 Lies We Need To Stop Telling About Young African-American Men

  Great article to dispel some rumors and encourage our young men to achieve

• 4 Steps to Better Writers

• Personalizing PD: It’s About Empowerment, Not Tools

  Its not about the technology, its about the people

• Why Is Praise So Powerful?

  Great video!

• Engaging Students by Empowering Teachers | HowToLearn.com

• Tools to Increase Student Engagement in Any Classroom | ASCD Inservice

• Grades are in: Digital learning gets more state attention

  Update on state efforts to implement digital learning

• Site offers free digital citizenship tools

• 3 Steps For Creating A Culture Of Learning

  Great simple points

• 7 Resources For Building A Classroom Library On A Budget

• 10 great sites for homework

  Resources for making the most of homework

• 15 Apps You Should Try with Your Students

• 3 waits to be productive with Evernote

  If you’re an Evernote user like me, you’ll appreciate this

• Universal Design Learning Infographic

• Using backchannel in classroom

• Librarians’ evolving digital roles

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

• How Do You Survive the Co-teaching Marriage?

  3 great strategies and a video on co-teaching best practices

• How to Keep the Curriculum Context in Connected Classrooms

  I love these strategies! Share these with some teachers who are beginning their dive in integrating social media in the classroom OR with experienced users for a reminder or intro to new considerations

• Excellent iPad App for Learning English Grammar

• 5 Best Cloud Storage Apps for Teachers and Students

  Some of my favorites here. I’m a Diigo and Dropbox user, glad to learn of the other two!

• 7 Things To Remember About Educational Feedback Infographic

  I love infographics and this is a great one on the how’s and why’s of p#5 is a great one for me!

• 5 Free Social Bookmarking Tools I Use Every Day

  Find your tool here! Besides Evernote, Diigo is one of my jams! [It powers these resource posts!]

• ‘Digital Leadership’ a Must-Read for Educators at All Levels

  This post is a must read about a must read – Eric Sheninger’s, @NMHS_Principal, new work Digital Leadership.

• 15 top special education blogs

• 38 iPad and Android Apps Ideal for BYOD Classrooms

• 20 Ways To Use Edmodo In The Classroom

• Here’s how digital content and teachers align

• Shared Practice in Teaching and Teacher Education: 7 Questions to Consider Before Assigning Homework

  Homework should be strategic and impactful! Great post here on some things we should consider.

• Pointing To Your True North

  Great post for school leaders at all levels! Lead from where you are but have the focus and set benchmarks.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.