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I read Harry Wong's First Days of School years ago.  I bought in to his ideas on teaching rules and procedures for the first days of school.  However, doing that on the first day of school made me just like everyone else.  That is not me, I am not everyone else. 

"Elementary School Balanced Packet is a collection of mathematics assessment tasks"

Here is a great checklist of things teacher should do to prepare for the first day of school. 

Use your iPad to help you plan, improve your practices, and get to know your students.

Enhance your lessons with School House Rock videos

Cleveland County Schools website - great resources for math, ELA, science, social studies and more. CCSS resources too.

"Oh the irony. It's Teacher Appreciation Week and a video of a Texas teen blasting his teacher for not teaching him and his classmates goes viral. On Tuesday Duncanville High School sophomore Jeff Bliss went off on his world history teacher, Ms. Phung, and it was all surreptitiously filmed by a classmate who promptly uploaded it onto YouTube. From there it made it to the front page of Reddit, and the rest, as they say, is history."

"Our students at Westlake High, a large suburban school on the outskirts of Austin, TX, are using them to read ebooks, download assignments, edit videos, write blog posts, and to do much more." Caroyn Foote

The ways teachers can lead are as varied as teachers themselves. Teacher leaders assume a wide range of roles to support school and student success. Whether these roles are assigned formally or shared informally, they build the entire school's capacity to improve. Because teachers can lead in a variety of ways, many teachers can serve as leaders among their peers.

From Cumberland County Schools, NC - POD with answer keys for grades K-5

I want my students to ... and then some apps to get the job done. 

Common Core ELA for 4th grade from Jordan School District

"Google's "20% Time", inspired by Sergey Brin's and Larry Page's Montessori School experience, is a philosophy and policy that every Google employee spend 20% of their time (the equivalent of a full work day each week) working on ideas and projects that interest that employee. They are encouraged to explore anything other than their normal day-to-day job. As a result 50% of all Google's products by 2009 originated from the 20% free time, including Gmail. Real break-through happens when we are free from others' expectations and driven by individual passion."

I brainstormed my own list and tried to organize it chronologically according to each of the five days. However, I again realized that in the BYOT classroom, many things have to happen just in time (or simultaneously), and a sequential list of orderly items was impossible (for me).

Presentation shared on the School Improvement webinar I attended today. 

A huge factor for schools in dealing with students and working online is CIPA/COPPA compliance. This is to ensure student safety as well as monitor and filter their online behavior.

This i s a good reproducible to use on the first day of school.

A great collection of links from JC School

Weekly worksheets that can be used as HW from Pine Valley Elementary